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