Catch a wave...Or the swimming thread

[alpinerabbit]

Drills are key. There simply is no efficient swimming without tech drills until they come out your ears. That will help with the breathing too. Work on balance and roll first. Be loooong.

Please post a video if they'll let you film at the Y.

[eclectic]

Drills are key. There simply is no efficient swimming without tech drills until they come out your ears. That will help with the breathing too. Work on balance and roll first. Be loooong.

Please post a video if they'll let you film at the Y.

Stretch out - pick an apple off a high branch - put it in your basket

So Urlea - are you going to start doing drills now

[Urlea]

Eclectic- Yes, you ladies have me convinced I should. I will admit though I'm really not fond of the idea. Most of the equipment you linked is provided at the Y so that gives me even less of an excuse not to. lol.

Is there a good site I should look at for drills? I'm polish, left-handed and dyslexic so I need detailed instructions.

On the job question: DH works in ND. A huge software company that has a branch in Fargo laid-off 5,000 people in the nation & some of those were co-workers of his. Tough to see, but thankfully a few have been able to find work in their field. With less pay though.

Alpine- I'm going to try to arrange with my sister who has an underwater case for her camera that does decent video & see if I can have her tape me. Hopefully sometime next week. I'll be sure to upload it if that works out.

Thanks for your advice ladies!

After taking my hubby to the Dr. (found out he has Pneumonia. ) I was too late to make it to the Y for the morning lap-swim, but I did make it this evening. Didn't do much, but try to figure out what my form is doing. Overall I wasn't feeling ambitious nor focused. Just one of those days.

Good news is I made it to the pool three times this week, which was my goal!

Tomorrow is my long-run day. Looking forward to running in the fresh snow. Should be beautiful if it's not windy.

[salsabike]

Here's one, Urlea. This is a local swim coach whose clinics I've gone to. She has a bunch of technique/drill videos here--


http://www.marymeyerlifefitness.com/resource/

[jesvetmed]

SALSA: Thanks for posting that. I've just spent 40 minutes watching drills! I won't remember most of them, but I can go back. That's some great stuff.
Jes

[eclectic]

Against my better judgment I swam this morning. I am scheduled to do my first 7 mile run tonight and didn't want to be tired out. But an out of town friend was swimming so I went.
I decided to wear the zoomer fins and save my legs but now my shoulders are tired because of the pulls w/ paddles and the pull buoy - I skipped the parachute drills.

300 wu swim

300 drill

300 pull w/ paddles

100 non free swim

8 x 75 x 25's kick, drill, swim

And because it was so long ago and so early in the AM I have no idea what we did the last set but I know it involved the little parachutes

[crazycanuck]

On Monday I did something similar to Ecclectic.. I did our group swim session & then went for a fourty something km ride after. I meandered & didn't push it but need to rejig a few things if i want to try it again. (i dropped my vehicle & swim friend in the city the mozied off..)

Main thing is food.

So, if i do want to try this again, do you have any suggestions? I was knackered by the end of the day as I had to do some running around after..

I'm not trying to be a superheroine tri chick, I just wanted to do something different!

[eclectic]

On Monday I did something similar to Ecclectic.. I did our group swim session & then went for a fourty something km ride after. I meandered & didn't push it but need to rejig a few things if i want to try it again. (i dropped my vehicle & swim friend in the city the mozied off..)

Main thing is food.

So, if i do want to try this again, do you have any suggestions? I was knackered by the end of the day as I had to do some running around after..

I'm not trying to be a superheroine tri chick, I just wanted to do something different!

C'mon be a super-heroine tri chick!
Did you do the ride right after the swim?
I didn't - I swam in the AM and ran in the PM so I had all day at work to eat and hydrate.

I have no idea how one would do a long session of swimming then a long session of riding - it would be like doing almost a section of a 1/2 IM
I have no idea how they fuel before they start

Ladies? ? ? ?