Lunch Time Gym Report
Trip To The Gym And Back

Swimming That Dang' Breaststroke

After my little outburst of frustration on Sunday during swim practice I swam on my own Monday and Tuesday.  It was my way of stepping back from the ledge and gaining perspective.  Today I went to practice without thinking of anything but just having a good swim.  Turnout was pretty light and I was the only fast lane swimmer so my lane was made up of one of the faster medium lane swimmers and another person of an undetermined speed. 

I took my time during our 10 minutes warm up and only got in a 200.  In the morning I stay on deck till the coach arrives then I just sorta swim a 50 at a time chit chatting along the way.  After that we had our warm up set.

3x
2x50's Kick 10 seconds rest in between the 1st and 2nd then right into
50 drill / 50 swim rest 10 seconds after the swim
100 kick then rest 10 seconds
I did all three rounds butterfly.

Main Set:
3x
200 Broken Race Strategy:  75 on 1:15 / 50 on 60 / 50 on 60 / 25 on 60
200 Fast on 3 minutes
The first round I did fly, second round backstroke and third round breaststroke.   My butterfly of late is pretty sad so doing a 200 butterfly is bloody murder.  I don't know what it is but I am just struggling with it.  My timing is off in every party of the stroke from breathing to kicking.  I really need to have someone look at my stroke and work on it but it's so hard for the coaches to give anyone one on one instruction.  I used the backstroke as a recovery and then tried to think about my breaststroke.  Since it is by far my weakest stroke I decided to work on it today since the intervals were generous.

After an easy 50 we did 8x50's sprint.  First 4 were freestyle on a minute and the secnd 4 were stroke on 1:05.  I alternated fly and back.

When I was swimming my 200 fly my legs felt like jello.  Maybe I did too much butterfly kick during warm up or maybe those 10x100's freestyle kick yesterday did me in.  Either way I just need to figure out what is going on with my butterfly. 

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