Catch a wave...Or the swimming thread

[HillSlugger]

This morning the pool was fairly quiet. I was sharing the wide end lane for a while and then had it all to myself. I swam 2000m and then worked on step 1 (and a tiny bit of step 2) of learning a fast open turn.

[chickwhorips]

KG your doing an excellent job in the pool! GO YOU!

[crazycanuck]

I decided to swim on me own this morning as i know i might not have tons of time this weekend. I was only in the pool for 1hr but did:

600m warm up
300 Finz
300 pull buoy
100 x3 easy, medium, fast
100 kick

I'll attempt to do a swim on sunday where i can work on just kicking and backstroke then go off and do some deep water running.

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[Jolt]

I know I swam 3,000 yards in 52 minutes myself today... that is with a 1:45, 100. To make 4,000 yards in one hour... I can't even think how fast someone would have to swim.

Then again, a lot of people make their IM swim (4200 yards) in around 1 hour.

3000 yds in 52 minutes--not bad at all! Certainly faster than I swim (my sort of "natural" pace is 500 yards in 10 minutes for freestyle, so that would bring me to an hour for that workout assuming I didn't switch up the strokes at all). I haven't done any swimming in a while so I'm sure I'd be slow now.

[kelownagirl]

I like the length swim at noon on Saturdays. There were only 3 of us in the double 'medium' lane. It was nice. I swam for 55 minutes and did another swimplan workout. 1400 metres this time. I felt great.

Warm up
• 8 x 25m Any Stroke (even pace), rest 0:10 / 25m

Build up (repeat 4 times)
• 1 x 25m Single Arm with kickboard 6 x left, 6 x right, rest 0:10 / 25m
• 1 x 25m Freestyle Kick with kickboard, rest 0:10 / 25m

Core
• 4 x 100m Freestyle Swim, rest 0:30 / 100m
• 16 x 25m Freestyle DPS, rest 0:10 / 25m

Warm down
• 1 x 100m Freestyle Easy, rest 0:20 / 100m
• 1 x 100m Easy Any Stroke, rest 0:20 / 100m

[jesvetmed]

Kelowna: WOW! I haven't been reading this thread religiously, but it seems you have increased your swimming distance very quickly! I'm so impressed. Great Job!

[kelownagirl]

Thank you everyone. You make me feel good. If it wasn't for you ladies, I wouldn't believe in myself enough to think I could do it at all. Truly.

[kelownagirl]

I did the same 1400m swim workout today. Felt pretty good but didn't feel as strong as I felt on Saurday. What? I can't improve every single time I swim??

On the good news front, I've been trying to figure out the best way to get a coach to give me feedback once a month or so. I have a teacher friend at work who's a triathlete and her hubby is a coach so I had thought about seeing if he does coaching on a 'once-in-awhile' basis but I know he's pretty busy with his serious triathlete clients. Suddenly realized that there's no reason why my friend herself couldn't give me a feedback. She's a competitive swimmer and an awesome triathlete (she's qualified for the worlds in the last two years) and although she's not a certified coach, she's certainly qualified enough to give li'l old me some direction. Anyway, I asked her today and she said she'd be happy to come down to the pool and give me pointers once in awhile. Yay!

[kelownagirl]

Swam 1500m today. Similar workout. Felt ok but I'm tired today.

[HillSlugger]

I've been going between speedwork days and distance days. Today I swam 2000m continuous, only the second time I've managed that. Unfortunately, I lost an earplug along the way.

[btchance]

Well, I was out of training completely for about 2months due to various issues (school, work, burnt out), but since the end of December I have been gradually adding it all back in and am enjoying it again. This block I have increased my swimming to 2x / week.

Tuesday: swam 1100 with a mixture of 250yards freestyle then drills, repeat.

Thursday: I started using the swim workouts in the Gondolfo book so my workout for the day was:

w/u: 200yards free
main: 8 x 50 yards with 2x 50 swim, 2 x 50 kick, 2 x swim, 2 x kick
12 x 25 drill on odd lengths and freestyle on even lengths
10min continuous freestyle working on form and changing pace
c/d: 200yards switching between breast stroke and back stroke

It feels good to be back doing this again.

[chickwhorips]

My swim from swimplan.com today:

Warm up
• 2 x 100m Freestyle Swim (kick every 4th 25m), rest 0:20 / 100m
Freestyle swim for 75m then kick with arms in a streamlined position for 25m.

Build up
• 2 x 100m Freestyle Swim (kick every 4th 25m), rest 0:20 / 100m
Freestyle swim for 75m then kick with arms in a streamlined position for 25m.

Core
• 1 x 1000m Freestyle Pull with a pull buoy, rest 0:60 / 1000m

Warm down
• 2 x 50m Freestyle Easy, rest 0:15 / 50m


After my upper body weights yesterday this one wore me out.

[kelownagirl]

I did one too!

Did a 1400m workout plus 200m test to see how many meters I could do in 5 min.


Warm up
• 8 x 25m Any Stroke (even pace), rest 0:10 / 25m

Build up (repeat 4 times)
• 1 x 25m Streamline Kicking, rest 0:10 / 25m
• 1 x 25m Single Arm (arm by side) 6 x left, 6 x right, 6 x full stroke, rest 0:10 / 25m

Core (repeat 4 times)
• 4 x 25m Freestyle (25m Easy, 25m Effort), rest 0:10 / 25m
• 2 x 50m Freestyle Catch Up, rest 0:20 / 50m

Warm down (repeat 2 times)
• 1 x 50m Freestyle Push & Glide, rest 0:15 / 50m
• 1 x 50m Freestyle Easy, rest 0:15 / 50m

[kelownagirl]

I have a hair question. Anyone have blonde highlights? What happens to your colour when you're in the pool so much? I need to get highlights back in my mousy brown hair and now that I'm swimming three times a week, I'm a little worried about turning green like my blondie daughters used to...

[chickwhorips]

What helps me, I don't have blond but some color, is use a purifying shampoo and deep conditioner once a week. I am a HUGE fan of PureOlogy. If your interested in trying some let me know. I can send you some at cost. Otherwise I know Aveda has a good one also.

Always wet your hair with "normal" water and put conditioner in it before you get in the pool. It acts like a barrier from the pool water.