More Of A Warmup Then A Workout Swim

Ahh...a holiday weekend which means I have two days off in a row.  I decided to use Sunday as my recovery or rest day and then swim on Monday (today.)  I set my alarm last night then decided to turn it off.  I could swim in the afternoon by myself was my reasoning.  But then I woke up this morning on time without an alarm.  So I decided to go swimming but thought it was Sunday and the gang meets at 7:30am not 6:45am.  So about 7:00ish I realized it was Monday and rushed to the pool.  Only to find every lane filled but not much of the gang was swimming.  A few were doing there own thing or previous workouts given.  I just jumped in and putz'ed around.  I wasn't motivated to push myself without the gang around.

Warm Up:

200 Swim

10x50's Pulling w/o Paddles on 60 (500/700)
1    :41.1     50     1:21
2    :41.3     50     1:23
3    :41.7     50     1:23
4    :42.1     50     1:24
5    :41.6     50     1:23
6    :42.8     50     1:26
7    :43.0     50     1:26
8    :43.0     50     1:26
9    :42.4     50     1:25
10    :41.6     50     1:23

6x50's Kick on 60 (300/1000)

5x50's Pulling w/ Paddles No Buoy on 60.  My legs almost sank me as they dragged behind. (250/1250)
1    :43.8     50     1:28
2    :43.9     50     1:28
3    :43.4     50     1:27
4    :43.0     50     1:26
5    :41.8     50     1:24

4x50's Pulling w/Paddles and buoy on 50. (200/1450)
1    :36.3     50     1:12
2    :36.9     50     1:14
3    :38.5     50     1:17
4    :38.0     50     1:16

2x50's 25 fly / 25 free (100/1550)

So a 35 minute unmovited 1,550 yard swim. A swim is a swim so at least I swam.  I got the day off to watch bad tv!  Tomorrow I may try to swim in the afternoon on my break from work.  We shall see.  I may not swim to the weekend otherwise.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2014
Month    Total Distance
Jan    2.76 miles (=4,850 yards, =4,435 meters)
Feb    4.15 miles (=7,300 yards, =6,675 meters)
Mar    5.82 miles (=10,250 yards, =9,373 meters)
Apr    7.41 miles (=13,050 yards, =11,933 meters)
May    12.63 miles (=22,226 yards, =20,324 meters)
Total    32.77 miles (=57,676 yards, =52,739 meters) My goal for 2014 is low enough that I may be able to catch up and make it.  100 miles isn't much!  At least that could motivate to get more short swims in. 

My official times from last weekends swim meet are in.  My times aren't great but hey, I got times:

200 Free 2:29.52
200 Back 2:48.13
50 Fly   32.28
100 Fly  1:11.40
200 Fly  2:50.18

Pretty slow even for LCM standards.  Three years ago I was a 2:35 in the 200 fly and 2:37/39 in the 200 back.