Swim Tune up

Monday's swim:
20 minutes steady ( 2 mph )
10 x 30 seconds fast ( 3 mph ) 5 second recovery
5 min cool down ( 1.8 mph )
So I went out to the sunroom to find my pool was only 76 degrees. Man that's cold. so before I got started I had to go under the house to make sure everything was ok. Looks like the heater had tripped and got shutoff. I somehow managed to get in and was wondering if I should be wearing my wetsuit or not ;-). The 20 min warmup went by too quick I was really getting into the Beattles today. Anyway I pushed up the speed to 3mph for my 30 second reps and man was that hard. 1 mph more of current and I could barely keep up. Now I know why they always say not to try to swim into the rip current. So helpful tip of the day, always swim perpendicular ( 90 degrees ) to the current until you get out of it, then swim to shore :-).

Friday morning Swim

Swam in the endless pool this morning, did a 10 minute warmup, then 6 x 2 minutes at just over race pace, with 30 seconds rest, then 8 x 1 min at faster than race pace with 10 seconds rest, and a 10 minute cool down. This morning I seemed to be over the soreness I have had all week from starting to lift weights again. So the swim felt good, had no issues except with my annoying goggles that I can't seem to get to stay on anymore. I had to tie the ends in a knot to keep them from coming out. Most of the workout I had the beattles playing. It's not easy to swim, breath and sing at the same time but someone's got to do it.

easy swimming

It was great to get back in the pool again. After the Duke HalfIM, I haven't done any swimming or biking, and only two runs. The cold I could not shake is finally gone and I think I am ready to go again. I did an easy 30 minutes in the pool this morning to some new music and it went by fairly quickly and just for fun I cranked up the speed for the last minute or so to see how fast I could go.

Phase two begins - monday swim

At little late, but I've been busy tapering ;-)
Monday morning, nothing exciting about this swim except it signalled the start of my tapering for the race on the 16th of this month. Woke up late 6am instead of 5, ate my powerbar and 16oz of water, feed the monster cats and headed to the pool. Today's workout 10 min warmup 30 min a little faster than race pace, 5 min cool down. Like I said nothing exciting. The 30 minutes at 2.55 mph was really tough or the first 5 minutes, but then I settled into the pace and just kept going.

Swimming with the cats

Swam this morning in the endless pool, nothing much exciting happened, but the cats are getting more and more brave about standing around the edges while I am swimming. At first they wouldn't come close while the propeller was turning, then they would hang out during warmup, but take off when I cranked it up for the main workout. Today I noticed them a few times sitting on the edge staring at me while I swam. Of course as soon as they saw me notice during my breaths on that side, they would turn away like "I'm not watching you". When I got bored, I would try to flick some water their way without losing momentum which isn't easy when swimming into a 2.4 mph current.