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I woke up this morning and headed to swim practice.  Little did I know that would turn out to be a bit mistake.  Workout was crazy hard. 

Warmed Up

400 or so.  Wasn't really counting.

Then we did a warm up set of three rounds of 50 Kick / 100 Swim / 150 Kick. (900/1300)

Main Set:

400 Pull on 5 Minutes (400)

100 Swim on 1:15 (500)

300 Pull on 3:45 (800)

2x100's Swim on 1:15 (1000)

200 Pull on 2:30 (1200)

3x100's on 1:15 (1500)

100 Pull on 1:15 (1600)

4x100's on 1:15 (2000)

OY!  The groups of 100 Swims were all fast.  Well considering the whole set was on 1:15 it was all fast.  Pretty much I had litte rest.  Between the 100 swim and the 300 Pull I didn't have enough time to put on my paddles so I tossed them on deck.  About 150 into it my arm clashed with another lane mate.  That was the end of the set for me.  I fell behind off the interval and never caught up.  Luckily we got some extra rest before the last pull set and the 100's Fast.  Finally I was getting rest.  The swimmer leading was just cruising along.  Well except the 200 Pull as they did more of a 175 stopping in the mid of the first 25 to adust pulling gear then turning back to stay out front.  The person behind me who my arm collided with was takin 50's and 100'a off for rest all the time during the whole set.  Then left right on my feet.  Causing me to get even more stressed out about the set.  A lot of it was just that I'm stressed out and had little sleep.  But besides tossing my paddles to the side deck and saying "fuck this" before leaving on my 300 pull I held myself together and did the set.  (2000/3300)

After this set we did stroke work.  I don't know what we did.  Some 75's.  i think 4 of them.  Odds easy / Evens fast.  I did one fast back and finished the last fast one butterfly.  (300/3600)

3600 Ass Kicking Yards!  Tomorrow I have a backstroke clinic.  Wahoo!  It's with Olympic Swimmer Peter Marshall.  Can't wait for that.  Hopefully we can work on my backstroke a bit.

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