Oye Vey

I don't know what happened today, I had planned to swim for an hour and a half, and do about 4.500 yards all in sets of 100s...but I woke up, headed to the pool and was absolutely drained. I got in and did 2,500 yards and decided to get out and quit while I was ahead. I figured pushing myself to go the rest of the way was not going to be beneficial in any manner...

Warm up: 1000yards
10x100s freestyle @1:45

Main:
5x 100 kick odd laps=under water even laps=SLK @ 2:00
5x100 pull w/snorkel and paddles @1:30 ( but ended up doing them around 1:45)

Warm Down:
5x100 #1scull with buoy #2-5 freestyle @1:45

I really haven't the foggiest what happened and why I felt this way, hopefully tomorrow will be better...

Back in action...

Alrighty...so last week I also swam Thursday and Friday, both days I did an hour consecuitve swim, and around 5,000yards during both swims. Friday my left shoulder gave me some trouble, which lasted until Sunday, I just kept popping anti-inflammatory medicine and by Sunday afternoon it was fine. I went snowboarding all day Sunday.

I couldn't drag myself out of bed Monday morning...but I did feel really bad about it, so I've devised a new plan for Monday and Wednesday's because it's just unrealistic given the time I get into bed at night, getting up at 430am is far fetched. So, from now on, on Mondays and Wednesdays I am gonna only swim for an hour to an hour and a half (either doing a consecutive swim or interval workout...either or)

So today I swam from 6:15-8:10amish, it was my first day getting back into interval training, so I did kinda a long and loose recovery set that I had done a few weeks back as well:

Warm Up: 2000yards
1000swim (every 4th lap SLK)
4x(3x50) #1Kick #2 Drill #3 swim 1xeach stroke @1:00
400pull

Main Set: 3000yards
500kick
400kick 100swim
300kick 200swim
200kick 300swim
100kick 400swim
500swim
**kick was with zoomers
**take 20-30seconds inbetween each

Recovery/Warm Down: 800yards

6x75 o=free e-im @1:15
4x50 drill (1x each stroke) @1:00
150 ez

total: 5,800

I felt kinda slow today, but I think it was just that getting back into it feeling...tomorrow, I plan to swim for 1hour 30minutes, but I have a pretty lofty workout planned of all 100s of different breeds...

Just Keep Swimming

It's been a long time...

Okay, well, haven't updated in a while...but then again, I haven't swam in over a week. March 3-4th I was at the Maryland Masters Winter meet. That was pretty nice, my first masters meet.

On Saturday I swam the:
200free
100free
50 fly
I don't have the exact times in front of me but none of them were best times or anything. I was kinda disappointed with the times but I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before and that morning we had learned a family friend had passed away so I probably wasn't in the best of mindsets to have an awesome day. I placed 1st in the 200, 3rd in the 100 and 2nd in the 50.

On Sunday (my 21st birthday!) I swam:

200IM
50Free
100IM
And I did awesome. The 200IM I did a 2:22.0 which is 4seconds faster than the time I did at St. Rose this season and only 1 second off my best time which I did way back in 8th grade. That made me happy because I really worked on all my strokes and the im in general that week before. The 50free I also did a best time of the season a 26.2 wihch is faster than I went at my college championships on a shave and taper. And the 100IM I did a 1:07 something, I died on that event, and had forgotten to take my inhaler so it wasn't great, but I definatly didn't care after having had such a great meet.

I also met Muppet and Mollie from the forums, that was cool. Mollie and I swam in the same heat for the 100IM...She creamed me haha.

I haven't been in the pool since the meet unfortunatly, I meant to go this morning, but couldn't get out of bed...but I WILL go tonight. I just want to swim a 2hour consecutive swim tonight, to get some yardage in and loosen out. I got a swimp3 player for my birthday so I'm gonna just put that on and swim swim swim. Tomorrow I will start interval training again, but I think from here out I am gonna work a few consecutive swims into my training, since I will be doing some open water events come this summer and they obviously are much longer than what I normally interval train for.

Additionally, I really need to get on the ball and start running and biking a bit more. I definatly am NOT in shape at the moment, too much lally gaging around. So hopefully today between classes I will go to the gym and run a little and then swim after classes tonight.

"Meet Mentality"

I got to sleep in (730am) today. That was nice..the latest I've slept in a really long time.

I headed over to the YMCA at 215 and went in the hot tub for 5minutes to stretch before heading over to the pool. I got in the pool at 2:45.

I had my own lane for a good portion of my workout, except the way back down the pyramid and for the 8x50 cycle.

Warm-up: 2000yards

Swim 200 100 100 100
Kick 100 200 100 100
Pull 100 100 200 100
Drill 100(fly) 100(back) 100(brst) 200(free)

(( Swim-Kick-Pull-Drill then back to the top for the next round. Took 15seconds inbetween each swim within a round and 30seconds between rounds))

IM Pyramid (1800yards)
(Down the pyramid without fins)
25fly .25
50fly .50
50fly-25bk 1:15
50fly-50bk 1:30
50fly-50bk-25brst 1:45
50fly-50bk-50brst 2:30
50fly-50bk-50brst-25fr 2:45
50fly-50bk-50brst-50fr 3:00
---1:00minute break----((took a 50ez)
Then back up the Pyramid (w/fins)

(My fly felt very strong on the pyramid...I made myself do the first 25 all two arm fly, and the first 2strokes off the turn 2 arm. Then I did 2-2-2 and full stroke into the turn)

Sprint Free Set: 1000yards
3x200 #1 swim #2pull with paddles #3 swim @315 (held 2:30s)

8x50 #1-2 @.50 (.37) #3-4 @ .45 (.35) #5-6 @ .40 (.32) --1minute break-- #7-8 @.35 (.29)


Recovery/Warm Down (1000yards)
200 DK on back with fins
8x25 Im transition turns @.40
2x100 IM drill @ 1:50
4x50 @ 1:00 descend +count strokes (maintain stroke count) ((maintained 12strokes until the
last 50 (15per lap) ))
200ez

Total: 5,800 yards

Then I went to the gym and lifted a little, and did the arm bike for a few minutes...

((i've never worked out cardio or weights at the YMCA so I was a little intimated by the sign up for machines and everything, so today I just kinda took in the whole process...maybe after I get back from spring break I'll give that a try..:-D))

So that was today...tomorrow I will drop another 600yards and Friday another 700 from that in lue of the meet this weekend.

The pilot

I thought I would start a blog for my swimming progression...clearly I got the idea from andre but, I think it's a good way to keep tabs on what I'm doing and how I'm feeling in the water over time. I figure it can't hurt right?

So today I swam from 7-9am at the Guilderland YMCA, I got a lane to myself the whole time somehow and felt pretty good all practice. Luckily my shoulders haven't been bothering me these past week and a half. Today however, towards the end of my workout I got these weird pains in the back of my right thigh, they went a way with a few shakes but then I continued to get them periodically during the day. Not really a muscular or bone pain, more of like a nerve pain. Hopefully its just because I am sore and tired from starting running yesterday.

My workout:

Warm Up:

500swim (30sec rest)
400kick (20sec rest)
3x100 pull with buoy @1:45
4x[3x50 @1:00 drill progressions (1xeach stroke)
4x50 mini im's @ 1:00
(2000 yards)

Main Set: (3000yards)

6x100free @1:30 (held 1:13)
8x75 o=st/fr/st e=fr/st/fr @1:15 (did fly)
5x100free @1:25 (held 1:15)
10x50 @1:00 (free/fly/free/bk/fr/brst/fr/fly/fr/bk)
4x100free @1:20 (barely made them!)
16x25 @30 O=12.5 fast breakout E=12.5 hard finish

Recovery/Warm Down (1000yards)

3x200 #1=IM kick @415 #2 IM drill @ 3:30 #3 IM Swim @ 3:15
2x100 SDK on back with fins @ 1:30
200ez

Total 6000yards


I meant to get to the gym to do some elliptical this afternoon, but just didn't get there...too lazy I guess...but I also don't want to over do it because of the meet this weekend.

Tomorrow I will swim-lift-run in the afternoon because my evening class got cancelled, I'm excited to get to sleep in tomorrow:-D