Moving Target - Lowering 2012 Swimming Goals

Oy!  Mornings are not getting much better!

Warm Up:
Mixed 450 with some butterfly and back towards the end.  Then a 200 IM kick.  (650)
300 IM Kick/Pull/Swim Reverse IM order (300/950)

I was feeling pretty stiff during the warm up.  Yesterday's Group Power Class killed my shoulders.  In a good way but still.  Now I've been taken Group Power about 3x a week since mid-October and I gotta say my shoulders, triceps and biceps are the most developed they've ever been.  Not over developed but defined.  Once I warm up in the pool I feel a bit better and less stiff.  Hopefully this muscle will help me next month at my first meet in many many months.

Main Set:
4 Rounds -
4x50's on 55 (Fly/Free, Back/Free, Breast/Free and Free)
200 IM on 3:15.  Descending each round.

Okay so that was the set as given.  I did all the yardage but tweaked the intervals a bit.  The 50's I kept on 55 but taking an extra 5 seconds before the 200 IM.  As for the 200 interval mum….that went out the window. After the first round I took a pee break.  Adding about 2 minutes extra rest maybe.  The last 3 I did them on 3:45.  I did descend but when you start off slow you can only get faster.  I was 3:00, 2:55, 2:47 and 2:41.  Still damn slow but whatever.  I was all by myself for this set.  I should be use to swimming while doing my own thing but I miss having lane mates and swim mates pushing me to go faster.  (1600/2550)

Did a 50 easy knowing in my head I was in a 50 yardage mark so 2,600 yard swim this morning in about 40-45 minutes including my pee break and chat breaks. 

Since I've decided to attempt to swim the 400 IM at a meet for the first time next month I really need to get cracking on my IM.  My walls are horrible.  I've so gotten in the habit of holding on the wall at my turns and transitions.  At the end I was trying to clean up my breaststroke turns.  So much to clean up with so little time.  Feb 11th is closing in so fast. Speaking of challenges...I've lowered my Go The Distance 2012 Goal from 365 miles down to 300 miles.  Mainly cuz' after swimming 5 days in a row I was still behind in my goal pace.  I figured if I kept it at 1 mile per day at some point I'd be so far behind I would stop logging my workouts.  Lowering the goal will allow for too cold to swim mornings, bad weather mornings, hung over mornings, recovery days and anything else that would prevent me from swimming.