Swimming One More Time
Friday, February 19, 2010
I wasn't going to swim last night but I decided to swim Thursday and take Friday as a recovery day. I figured I needed a recovery day so let's just try and squeeze in one more swim workout. The workout wasn't an exceptionally hard workout but added to my morning weight lifting I then left the evening workout sore and exhausted. It was the perfect way to feel before a day of recovery.
As for the workout itself it wasn't a bad workout it just didn't work out so well at least in my lane. On most Thursday nights the workouts are split between stroke/im and freestyle. I decided to do stroke which may not have been the smartest choice. I think it's funny that swim mates think I only do the free workouts since I swim distance free at meets but I do switch it up between workouts. I'm not saying I switch it up to a 50/50 ratio but I do the stroke workout enough times. In fact even in workouts that are not split and we do choice I do stroke more times then freestyle. So I did the stroke workout last night even though we had the wall lane. I would have done the freestyle workout but two of the swimmers were super fast and would have wanted faster intervals and would have been all super serious. So I took the wall lane and stroke which then at one point had 5 swimmers and 2 of them were Mutt N' Jeff.
The workout:
Warm up was a bit of a mess. I was still deciding between the freestyle or stroke and which was the lesser of two evils. I may have done a 400.
4x200's broken 100 kick / 50 drill / 50 swim Each 200 was 1 stroke reverse IM Order. After that half of Mutt N' Jeff left to go swim in the free lane making it only 4 to the wall.
8x75's 2 of each stroke IM Order 25 drill / 50 swim
I don't think any of the warmup was on any interval besides 10 secs rest or wait to the last person comes into the wall.
Then we had the main set. In theory this set wasn't so bad. In execution well let's just say it became a disaster. We were doing starts off the blocks for some of it. Which meant the last person would be almost diving as the first person was coming into the wall. And the sprint butterfly was always fun along the wall. We had a few close calls and one direct collision. It would have been a great set in a 50 meter pool. Also the lanes are very narrow at our pool. Some sets just don't translate well to the pool.
200 Free on 2:40
100 IM on 1:35
100 Free on 1:35
100 IM on 1:35
75 easy to deep end with the blocks
8x50's odds stroke fast butterfly /evens free easy
So the 50's were to be on 50 but that didn't make sense as we had 5 people in the lane and the last person would be pretty much crashing on top of the first swimmer if not the second swimmer. We waited till the last person was done before the first person jumped in. That still meant that the last person starting the 50 fast would jump in at the tiem the last person would be coming into the wall. I got a cramp in the 1st 50 fly and only did a 25. But walked it out and got back in for the easy free one. I then went last in case my cramp kept bothering me. So to avoid crashing in on the other swimmers I pretty much did a dive that was super short and aimed to the side. At one point when I was doing fly into the wall someone leaving at the turn somehow managed to crash into me. They were sorta doing there own thing and was swimming backstroke. This set was a mess.
200 Free on 2:40
100 IM on 1:35
100 Free on 1:35
100 IM on 1:35
50 easy
8x50's odds stroke fast backstroke /evens free easy
200 Free on 2:40
100 IM on 1:35
100 Free on 1:35
100 IM on 1:35
and we ran out of time so we did 3x50's off the blocks 25 breast and 25 free.
Like I said the workout wasn't bad it just didn't work for the pool. Which is a shame as we never do enough starts during the year. And to have a set with starts then becomes a set that we don't care about the starts was a waste. I did a 50 easy. I think I may have done the math wrong but I think the workout was 4,450 yards. That is pretty good yardage. Now I can sit back and enjoy my recovery day. Although I keep thinking I should swim tonight as rain is predicted for this weekend and several days next week. Damn weather!
As for the workout itself it wasn't a bad workout it just didn't work out so well at least in my lane. On most Thursday nights the workouts are split between stroke/im and freestyle. I decided to do stroke which may not have been the smartest choice. I think it's funny that swim mates think I only do the free workouts since I swim distance free at meets but I do switch it up between workouts. I'm not saying I switch it up to a 50/50 ratio but I do the stroke workout enough times. In fact even in workouts that are not split and we do choice I do stroke more times then freestyle. So I did the stroke workout last night even though we had the wall lane. I would have done the freestyle workout but two of the swimmers were super fast and would have wanted faster intervals and would have been all super serious. So I took the wall lane and stroke which then at one point had 5 swimmers and 2 of them were Mutt N' Jeff.
The workout:
Warm up was a bit of a mess. I was still deciding between the freestyle or stroke and which was the lesser of two evils. I may have done a 400.
4x200's broken 100 kick / 50 drill / 50 swim Each 200 was 1 stroke reverse IM Order. After that half of Mutt N' Jeff left to go swim in the free lane making it only 4 to the wall.
8x75's 2 of each stroke IM Order 25 drill / 50 swim
I don't think any of the warmup was on any interval besides 10 secs rest or wait to the last person comes into the wall.
Then we had the main set. In theory this set wasn't so bad. In execution well let's just say it became a disaster. We were doing starts off the blocks for some of it. Which meant the last person would be almost diving as the first person was coming into the wall. And the sprint butterfly was always fun along the wall. We had a few close calls and one direct collision. It would have been a great set in a 50 meter pool. Also the lanes are very narrow at our pool. Some sets just don't translate well to the pool.
200 Free on 2:40
100 IM on 1:35
100 Free on 1:35
100 IM on 1:35
75 easy to deep end with the blocks
8x50's odds stroke fast butterfly /evens free easy
So the 50's were to be on 50 but that didn't make sense as we had 5 people in the lane and the last person would be pretty much crashing on top of the first swimmer if not the second swimmer. We waited till the last person was done before the first person jumped in. That still meant that the last person starting the 50 fast would jump in at the tiem the last person would be coming into the wall. I got a cramp in the 1st 50 fly and only did a 25. But walked it out and got back in for the easy free one. I then went last in case my cramp kept bothering me. So to avoid crashing in on the other swimmers I pretty much did a dive that was super short and aimed to the side. At one point when I was doing fly into the wall someone leaving at the turn somehow managed to crash into me. They were sorta doing there own thing and was swimming backstroke. This set was a mess.
200 Free on 2:40
100 IM on 1:35
100 Free on 1:35
100 IM on 1:35
50 easy
8x50's odds stroke fast backstroke /evens free easy
200 Free on 2:40
100 IM on 1:35
100 Free on 1:35
100 IM on 1:35
and we ran out of time so we did 3x50's off the blocks 25 breast and 25 free.
Like I said the workout wasn't bad it just didn't work for the pool. Which is a shame as we never do enough starts during the year. And to have a set with starts then becomes a set that we don't care about the starts was a waste. I did a 50 easy. I think I may have done the math wrong but I think the workout was 4,450 yards. That is pretty good yardage. Now I can sit back and enjoy my recovery day. Although I keep thinking I should swim tonight as rain is predicted for this weekend and several days next week. Damn weather!
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