swimmingMoose

3-2-05:Wednesday

1700 today. My concentration was way off because of my annual physical in the morning and other things going on in my life. I tried swimming with fins again today (after a 2+ month hiatus) and it really did help me experience the feel of swimming faster. The downside is that it created a huge amount of drag - so a mixed blessing.

I started my workout with a 500 with fins, then a 200 with fins. Like last workout, I tried to do another 500 but petered out after 8 lengths - mostly psyched myself out. Then I did 10 x 50 @ :20 moderately fast, experiencing the feel of moving faster in the water. I need to start swimming faster in my drill work so that I can develop my hydrodynamic profile in faster swims. It's easy to do slow - now we need to transfer the skill to a faster swim. Next I did a 250 with fins. The a 150 and a 100 without fins. My kick was way off because of the fins, so I need to drill some next workout to recapture that feel.

posted by Philip Werner @ 3:22 PM