swimmingMoose

2-05-05: Saturday

2000 yards today - somewhat more than I had intended. This brings me to 5750 for the week, whereas my target was 5500. This work continued my theme this week of longer distance.

I started with a 500 to warm up and then did 2 sets of 4 x 50 @ :30 of drills (spl 15/16), which brought me up to 900. It took my 300 to loosen up. I got to the pool by about 8:45, early enough to miss the kid swimming lesson, buy I forgot about the 9 am water aerobics class. I did my second 200 as they were removing the lanes! It was a gas. We were swimming diagonally around the moving ropes.

I continued my workout by doing to 550's, swimming horizontally in the pool. I walked off the distance which is 21/38's of a normal 25 or about 10/18 spl. I did two sets of 40 lenths, just crawl, with very little push off from the side. It took a while to kick in, but I can really feel the 2000 yards right now. The experience was a bit like swimming in open water or what I would imaging that would be like. Without ropes I inhaled a bit of choppy water - probably made choppy by the aerobics class in the shallows.

Next week I'm going to get 2 workouts in Boston - it will my 11th week swimming. The goal in both of those workouts will be to work on more distance - I'll shoot for 2000 yards on Tuesday and Thursday. If you think about it - I did 3, 500's today, so I know I can do it.

posted by Philip Werner @ 9:40 PM