I've been swimming regularly with a Masters group for 10 years, and tonight a lightbulb went off. Honestly, TEN YEARS, and I finally figured out how to do freestyle stroke properly.
I've never been a good puller, and whenever we used pull buoys my shoulders would kill me. And I mean it felt like someone was sticking a knife into the joint on both sides.
It wasn't busy tonight so I had attention from both coaches on how to correct my stroke. The zipper drill came in very handy to get my elbows high and to engage my chest muscles as opposed to just using my shoulders. And to let the tension out of the arms and reach under the water as opposed to over as I was erroneously instructed a few years back.
And what a difference that made! it was actually relaxing, and got my stroke count down to 15 in the 25 yards section of the pool.
I learned more tonight in 30 minutes than I have in the last 10 years...
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04-21-2010, 10:02 PM #1
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04-22-2010, 05:56 AM #2
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Badger, that's great! Isn't it amazing when it suddenly works?
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04-22-2010, 07:41 AM #3
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Thursdays are "endurance/tempo" days for me. This morning's 2200 meter workout included my longest continuous swim so far this season - 1000 meters. It came in at 25:15. I did it at a pace that I could maintain without breathing hard, and a pace at which I would have been able to extend for additional distance.
So, based on that, I'm feeling pretty good that my HIM swim should come in sub-50 minutes. My goal is 45 minutes. I swam 36:01 for the 1500 meters on the same course for the Olympic last year, which would be a 48 minute 2000m.
2 weeks to the 1st tri of the season, and 9 weeks to the HIM!
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04-22-2010, 07:59 AM #4
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Sounds like you're right where you want to be Susan.
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04-22-2010, 08:49 AM #5
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Relatively. Really, I want to swim like YOU.
Originally Posted by Veronica
Based on last years results, a 45 minute swim time would put me around 350th of 475 participants. Closer to 400th for a 48 minute swim time.
But that's OK. I'll catch up and pass lots of them on the bike.
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04-22-2010, 09:10 AM #6
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Yeah and you'll pass me on the run. :-)
It's all fun though.
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04-24-2010, 05:58 AM #7
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1750 yards yesterday. I thought that maybe Tuesday was a fluke, but I'm still going faster than I had before. I did 400 yds in 7:15, a 15 second improvement. I have no idea what finally clicked, but I'll take it. I'm going to try to swim with my coach again next week. I think our next step should be to do longer intervals, but we'll see what he thinks.
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