Another swim month has come to a close. Good bye February Swimming! Finishing off my month of swimming struggles I finished my last workout just in that fashion, struggling. Today's swim I will admit became a struggle when I mentally gave up during the warm up set and just never recovered. I did finish the workout and had a bit of an achievement at the end of workout.
As for the warm up I took my time and swam a 200 before the warm up set.
2x
2x75's Drill I messed up on the first round thinking it was only 1x75 drill.
100 Kick
4x25's.
The set would have been a total 500 yards but for me it was a 400. Once I messed up I got out and took a pee break. I almost got lapped as the kick intervals were for me a bit touch and go. I really think that for these warm up sets I should be in a slower lane only to move up to the fast lane for the main set. I don't make the intervals, have totally given up on kicking on a fast interval and take pee breaks. And then on the second round of drill I had to go like mad to get some rest. Which means the drill part was pointless as I was more concerned with making it then working on the drill. (400/600)
Then we did another quick warm up set with 50's on 40. I don't remember what it was.
Main Set:
5x100's Free on 1:20
75 Free on 1:00
50 Fly
4x25's Fly on 30
3x100's on 1:15
75 Free on 1:00
50 Back
4x25's Back on 30
1x100 Free on 1:10
75 Free on 1:00
50 Breast
4x25's Breast on 35
25 easy
This is the type of set that I can never grasp when swimming. Starting at various ends of the pool with various distances and intervals. It wasn't to the 2nd round that I figured out the pattern. The first round with the 4x25's Fly since we started them on the other end of the pool I automatically started to do Fly thinking it was the last 25 when we were actually moving on to the 3x100's. After that it was all downhill. Mentally I gave up and didn't care. Open turns started to set in. The 25's were to be sprint but to be honest I took all the fly out easy as I was worried about the intervals later on in the set. I just got to the point of just swimming to swim and didn't care about technique at all. Since I wasn't leading I was able to draft along making it a bit easier. (1600/2400)
We then ended up with a fun warm down set that which marked a personal achievement. Hey at this point I'll take the small wins!
50
1x25 on 30 no breathing
50
2x25's on 30 no breathing
50
3x25's on 35 no beathing
50
4x25's on 35 no breathing.
I don't remember the intervals for the 50's but this was a pull set. Now my 1st 25 I didn't fully finish to the wall but for the rest I did and for all of the 25's I was able to do them without breathing. Which is a huge accomplishment for me. Oh and I didn't use paddles. Seriously I normally am lucky if I can do a 25 with one breath never mind none. (450/2850) I then did a 100 easy so the total yardage was 2950 + the warm up set that I don't remember.
MTD Yardage: 49,950
MTD LCM: 9,800
YTD Yardage: 114,650
YTD LCM 9,800
I look forward to my do nothing Saturday! My body needs the day off to reset itself for next week! I'll hit the gym and swim on Sunday. Monday is the 10x100's so that swim is up in the air. As for this month's yardage count is down from January but when you add in the LCM it's about the same.
