swimmingMoose

2-24-05: Thursday

Today was a big workout - 2000 yards. My goal was to work on swimming longer distances. I'm still trying to play catchup to where I was endurance wise before vacation.

I started with a 500 yard warmup which went pretty smoothly and I felt really strong. I timed this at 9:13. This I followed with a 200. I had hoped to be able to do another 500 but I psyched myself out of it. So I decided to do a 250 ladder instead for 1250 yards (5o @ :30, 100 @ :45, 150,200,250,200,150 @ :60, 100 @ :45, and 50 @ :30. I followed this with another quick 50 to end the workout.

The distances abover 150 were tough. I think part of the reason is just counting, which gets much harder above 150 yards (6 lengths). I find myself starting to peter out at 100 yards and then 150 gets even harder.

I really didn't do any drills today. My head was a bit low. Kicking was good until my last 150 when my left calf cramped up and I used a pull buoy to get through the remaining 3 laps of the 150 until I could stretch the leg out.

For my next work out I'm going to switch gears and work on drills and 5o yard medium and fast swim times. Maybe I'll also do a ladder where I decrease my rests times, to get back to improving my recovery times and lap speed.

posted by Philip Werner @ 10:26 PM