Turkey Day Lap Swim 2016

TURKEY SWIM

Warm Up

400 Swim

8x50's Kick on 60 (400/800)

8x50's Pull on 60 (400/1200)

IM SET

4xRounds (1600/2800)

• 4x50's 60 (200)

Fly/Back, Back/Breast, Breast/Free and Free/Fly

• 100 IM on 1:45 (100/300)

• 2x50's Kick on 60 (100/400)

30 seconds rest

FINAL SET

4x50's Pulling SPRINT Free (200/3000)

I will admit about half way during the IM Set I was ready to give up.  My body was beat.  But pushed it and finished it.  Luckily the intervals gave me plenty of rest to keep going.  At 3,000 yards that is the most I've swam in one workout all year long.  

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	10.51 miles (=18,500 yards, =16,916 meters)
Total	36.19 miles (=63,700 yards, =58,247 meters)

Yesterday I said it was my goal to swim 17,500 yards this month up from the previous goal of 15,000 yards.  Now I'm aiming for 20,000 yards!  

It's The 50 Workout

Took a workout I did that was left to me by some of the swimmers in the area and modified it for my morning swim.

Warm Up
500 Swim

6x50's Kick on 60 (300/800)

6x50's Pull on 60 (300/1100)

6x50's Swim on 60 (300/1400)

Main IM Set:
4 Rounds
4x50's IM Switches (Fly/Back, Back/Breast, Breast/Free and Free/Fly)
2x50's Kick
All on 60 with an extra 30 seconds in between each round.
So that set was 4 Rounds of 300 yards or 1,200 yards. (1200/2600)

Not Bad, Not Great! My Garmin Swim is not working so I'm calling it dead. Can't go out and buy a new watch right now so I used my iPhone as my clock using stopwatch feature. Not perfect but it works.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	8.81 miles (=15,500 yards, =14,173 meters)
Total	34.49 miles (=60,700 yards, =55,504 meters)

And with that workout November pulls out in the lead for 2016.  I'm going to do my best to swim tomorrow.  I'll have to look at some old workouts and print something out.  I may or may not be starting a new job next week so swimming next week and into December is in flux.  So get my swims in now while I can.  My goal was to swim 15,00 yards in the month which I've done.  Now can I hit 17,500?

Brrrrr..Morning Swim

On any other morning I would have been happy with the water temp this morning as it was estimated to be at about 78F but today the outside temp was 37F.  Which made my swim less of a workout and more of a lap swim.  Basically I swam a 1,000 yards then pulled a 1,000 yards.  That was it.  2,000 Yards for the morning before my body was too cold to go on.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	7.33 miles (=12,900 yards, =11,796 meters)
Total	33.01 miles (=58,100 yards, =53,127 meters)

With a week to go of this month getting to 15,000 will not be a problem.  I don't know when or how many times I'll get in the water but yes I just need one more swim or 2,100 yards.  Easy enough.  Hopefully tomorrow or Thanksgiving.  The good news is that it's going to warm up again before Winter comes back.

Another Quick Swim

Well my Garmin Swim seems to be really dead as it's just eating batteries as it won't stay programmed.  I may just let it sit and put in a new battery in a week or so.  That's worked before.  So since I really didn't have much time this morning I swam without any timer for intervals.  No biggie.  I'll use my iPhone for a timer next week.

Warm Up

500 Free

Kick

400 Free

Pull

I think it was a 500 or was it a 600?  This is why I need a swim watch to keep track of my swims

Fly

100 Fly

So let's say 1,500 yards.  I won't be back in the pool to Monday as I'm in Orlando for the weekend.  It's a Disney thing.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	6.19 miles (=10,900 yards, =9,967 meters)
Total	31.88 miles (=56,100 yards, =51,298 meters)

Catching up to Sept/Oct.  With two weeks left of the month I should crush it.  I hope my watch comes back to life as I can't afford a new watch to Jan/Feb.  I may make it my wish for my birthday in Feb.  But for now I may have to use my iPhone and paper on deck to keep track of things.

Same But Shorter Mixed Morning Swim Workout

Brrrr...48F outside this morning.  On deck I had to rush getting my gear set at the end of my lane.  Other then that I did the same workout as yesterday but instead of being 500 yard base it was a 400 yard base at faster interval.

Warm Up

400 Swim

Kick 

400 Free

Pull Set

4x100's Free on 1:30 (did it on 1:40 yesterday)

IM Set

4x100's IM on 1:45 (did it on 2 minutes yesterday)

So 1,600 yards in about 30 minutes or maybe a tad less than 30 minutes.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	5.34 miles (=9,400 yards, =8,595 meters)
Total	31.02 miles (=54,600 yards, =49,926 meters)

I may swim tomorrow and then maybe next then on Monday.  My goal for the month is to get to 9 miles or at the very least beat Sept/Oct totals.

A Tad Bit Longer Short Swim Workout

I haven't swam on a Wednesday in some time so it was great to roll up to the pool and have it opened early today.  I was able to squeeze in an extra 500 yards.  I think I can start swimming faster intervals or more yardage.  Slowly building back.

Warm Up

500 Free

Kick

500 Free

Pull

5x100's on 1:40 w/Paddles

IM

5x100's on 2 Minutes.  Those were slow a 1:30-ish then the last one a little faster.

So 2,000 yards.  Not great but slowly building back.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	4.43 miles (=7,800 yards, =7,132 meters)
Total	30.11 miles (=53,000 yards, =48,463 meters)

 

Easy 30 Minute Free and Fly Swim

Quick Morning Swim.  Not a good swim as I tossed and turned and woke up at 4am when the paper was delivered.  Oh well it's a swim.

Warm Up

400 Free

Kick Set

400 Free Kick

Pull Set:

4x100's on 1:40

Fly Set:

4x50's Fly/Free by 25 on 60

Rest

4x50's Fly on 1:10

1,600 Quick Yards.  I was a bit tired on those flies.  Oh well.  Since I had replaced the battery but didn't fully enclose the back of my Garmin Swim it seems to be slowly giving up.  Right now only the stopwatch function is working so I don't have my intervals.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	3.30 miles (=5,800 yards, =5,304 meters)
Total	28.98 miles (=51,000 yards, =46,634 meters)

Quick Get In Some 50's Fly!

Ugh!  My Garmin Swim is on the fritz again.  I so want to try another swim watch but right now can't afford to spend the money.  I tried to reset the Garmin but it's not accepting pool length.  It did this before and then magically fixed itself.  I was able to use the stopwatch function to keep on an interval.

Warm Up

400 Free

Kick 

200 Free

Pull

400 Free w/Paddles

Fly

4x50's FLy on 1:10

Easy 100 Kick

2x50's FLy on 60

1,400 yards.  I'm tired and sore.  Now I gotta get to work and teach Power (weight training / Body Pump) at both 9:30am and 5:45pm today.  Ouch!

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	2.39 miles (=4,200 yards, =3,840 meters)
Total	28.07 miles (=49,400 yards, =45,171 meters)

Hopefully I get some swim time in on Sunday.  On Sat I got CPR training from 9-1 then heading to Disney!  Yeah!  So I'll be home late so Sunday swimming will be late morning.

Quick Post-Half Marathon Swim Workout

Back to the pool after a week off.  Had the Disney Food and WIne 1/2 Marathon this Sunday so didn't know if swimming would happen this morning.  But it did.  Only 30 minutes as I need to get to work.

Warm Up

600 Yards

Kick 

200 Free

Pull

6x100'a on 1:30

Kick

100

So 1,500 yards.  

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	1.59 miles (=2,800 yards, =2,560 meters)
Total	27.27 miles (=48,000 yards, =43,891 meters)

Back to the work week means short swims.  I actually didn't know if my legs would hold up as I did about 2 1/2 hours interval training on the treadmill yesterday getting ready for the Epcot Food & Wine Half Marathon this Sunday.  I had a client cancel so in the morning I did 30 minutes alternating 2 1/2 mins walk and 2 1/2 run.  My run isn't that fast.  For the 2 hour run I did the first 30 minutes the same as above the second 30 minutes I did 3 minute walk and 2 minute run, the third 30 minutes back to the same as the first, then 20 minutes 3 walk and 2 run, the last 10 minutes I started doing 30/30 then 1 min / 1min.  I'll do that again on Wednesday.  As for today it's weight training class in a bit so here was the quick am swim:

500 warm up

200 kick 

5x100's IM on 2 minutes 

1,200 yards.  I won't be back in the pool to next Tuesday.  I got to sub a class on Thursday morning for a coworker then I'm off to Disney Friday to Monday.

My Progress for Go The Distance 2016

Month	Total Distance
Jan	0.99 miles (=1,750 yards, =1,600 meters)
Mar	2.73 miles (=4,800 yards, =4,389 meters)
Aug	5.20 miles (=9,150 yards, =8,367 meters)
Sep	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Oct	8.38 miles (=14,750 yards, =13,487 meters)
Nov	0.68 miles (=1,200 yards, =1,097 meters)
Total	26.36 miles (=46,400 yards, =42,428 meters)