The Masters Swimming Thread!

[Wahine]

No swimming this week for me. I've been unusually tired and today I feel like I might be coming down with the flu.

Alpine, I would try it. But I'm officially warped.

[alpinerabbit]

meh... maybe I'll rather be lazy around christmas and not do too much crazy stuff.

Last night we had to do a whopping 5x100 fist swimming. eeks. I passed again on the butterfly. I'll have to take a class to sort of manage that one. Otherwise I kept up, in the slow lane, for all 3.3K. I dread the 1K time trial we will do in December.

The funkiest freestyle drills we did 2 weeks ago: "chicken wing" (keep one thumb in your armpit) and "shark" (keep one foot in the air). Funny but yucky.

[Kimmyt]

ar, we call those turkey drills, and they're good to do for the thanksgiving and christmas relay games we have in class!

as for me, i haven't been to class recently. Last weekend I was on a climbing trip, and due to the cold weather and sleeping on the ground, I've tweaked my neck and don't want to risk re-injuring with swimming. So for now I'm resting and trying to get the running back up.

K.

[Wahine]

I went to all 3 masters workouts last week and the 2 so far this week.

We swam a tough 2000m main set today.

I am now officially suffering from armsfallingoffitis with a coexisting case of sleepyitis.

I can't wait to go home tonight and crash out.

[HillSlugger]

I really impressed myself today. For the past few weeks I've been focusing on balance (side swimming) and mastering bilateral breathing, doing various drills. Today I decided that maybe I should alternate drills workouts with LSD (long slow distance). So, I got in the pool with the intention of doing 1000m FS. I ended up doing 1600m straight! Woo hoo!

[Wahine]

I missed Masters today.

I had to go to a meeting last night and didn't get home until 10:45. I thought about getting up early to swim, but then I would not have seen my husband in a conscious state for almost 2 days. I slept in with him and we had coffee together instead.

MD - that's great news.

[rocknrollgirl]

I did mostly drills this week. It was actually kind of fun. I am slowly increasing my distance back up to where it was at the end of my race season, but I am not working on speed yet. I plan to wait a few more weeks before I start doing speed work.