Swimming Among Others Does My Mind and My Body Good

Sunday Sleepy Head!  Yesterday was a long day so I needed some extra sleep.  I had my alarm set for 3:30 am but turned it off and slept in to 6 am.  No gym before swimming.  Which was a good thing!

Slept in. Needed the extra rest. Swimming later this morning. pic.twitter.com/PfkysyhMK9

— Joel McKenna (@the17thman) October 1, 2023

The Swim!

Warm Up: 10 minutes / 200 Swim / 350 Pull (550)

4x50's Kick IM Order

Main Free Set:

400 / 300 / 200 /100 We took 30-45 seconds rest.  In the 400 and 300 I caught up to the swimmer behind me.  We had four lanes with 2 swimmers in each lane. (1000/1550)

IM SET:

5x 100's IM / Easy Free / IM / Easy Free / IM (500/2050)

We did something then did sprints off the blocks and cooled down.  My Apple Watch said I did 2,400 yards.  Maybe?

Third Coached Workout. I like being pushed by others. My endurance is shit by I am getting better. Possibly even faster by a bit pic.twitter.com/8XdUF5p0LW

— Joel McKenna (@the17thman) October 1, 2023

THE BREAKDOWN:

Swimming once a week is like getting punched in the face every week!  I come and wreck my body and wait another week to do it again.  I really need to be swimming on weekdays in between.  Although I got to say compared from the first and second workouts I was holding my own.  I was neck and neck with one of the fast swimmers who was killing me last week.  I really need to work on my endurance.  I was dead by the 60 minute mark of the workout.  Hell after 30 I was beginning to think how I may have started out a bit too fast.  My teres major are burning.  Must have been the butterfly.  Nah the distance free!  Swimming with others is pushing me.  I couldn't do this alone.  

Two weeks to Rowdy Gaines.  I got two weeks for the swim meet.  So need to get some week day swims in.  I'm scheduled to swim the 50 and 100 fly plus some relays on the Sunday.  Which is probably the only day I'm going.