Slappin' The Water
Friday, April 09, 2010
I pretty much used Thursday as a recovery day except for some cycling around town. I ran a couple of errands but only cycled less then 10 miles total. Figured it was a little bit of cardio. After a recovery day I figured this mornings swim would be a good hard swim. Well with a bad night of not being able to sleep then lots of tossing and turning I spent most of the mornings workout trying to wake up. Usually the quick cycle ride to the pool wakes me up but not this morning. Then when I did eventually wake up I had no speed in the water. I figured at least I got in some cardio even if it was a bad swim for me.
Warmed up about a 500. It was a very slow 500 stopping almost after every 50.
Then we did a warm up set:
3x100's 50 kick using no board / rotating (basically with arms to our side we were to kick but rotate on our axis. for some reason I couldn't do this and basically just swam backwards) the second 50 was catch up drill. Since I was going backwards I sat out one of the 50 kicks. (250/750)
3x100's 50 breaststroke kick / 50 breaststroke drill (300/1050)
6x75's odds - 25 backstroke drill / 50 backstroke swim & evens 25 free drill / 50 freestyle swim all on 1:20 (450/1500)
Main Set:
4x100's free on 1:25
200 free all out on 3:00
3x100's on 1:25
200 free all out on 3:00
and i got out. we had two fast lanes the other lane did the 100's on 1:20. Since I was feeling tired I went with the slower interval. If I had gone on the faster interval I think I would have broken down even sooner then I did. I had nothing in the 200's. The first one after about 150 I was out of gas. I was struggling. My arms were all over the place. In the two 200's I did I was hitting people in the next lane with my arms. That is when I knew my stroke had fallen apart and it was time to get out. I was going to hurt someone or even myself. (1100/2600) The rest of the set was 2x100's, 200, 1x100 and a 200. When I was dressed and heading out the coach was giving them a 100 fast for time. So glad I got out. I would have been broken down and been swimming all over. One of my swim mates jokingly asked "if i ever swim a full workout anymore" and I got to be honest that I don't think I do. It's getting easier and easier to get early as it seems more people are of late. I guess I am just in one really long taper season!