Swimming Even Faster
Discipline: Swimming
Distance: 1200m
Not been a good week for training - had a crampy quad and didn't get a lot done. Having serious doubts about this IM untill my leg is sorted. Maybe a Half IM this summer would be a more realistic target and then do the full next summer. We'll see :o)
Onto today's training - it was meant to be longer, but having only had one person in the lane when I arrived apart from me, it quickly filled out to ten within five minutes! Looks like everyone had the same idea of arriving at lunchtime.
Even so - I did manage to get in a 400m without too much disturbance (except for one length). Must confess I did have to do a few quite nasty overtakes though on the turns.
First - a 400 metres time trial, then a two hundred, and later a 100m as I'd felt I was going well!
400m - PB 8:28:14 :oD (PB by 21 seconds)
200m - PB 3:56:76 :oD (1.5 second PB)
100m - PB 1:45:26 :oD (PB by 4 seconds)
Must confess that the 100m time was a complete shock as I'd done a fair few of these but not tried a 400m TT for ages.
Distance: 1200m
Not been a good week for training - had a crampy quad and didn't get a lot done. Having serious doubts about this IM untill my leg is sorted. Maybe a Half IM this summer would be a more realistic target and then do the full next summer. We'll see :o)
Onto today's training - it was meant to be longer, but having only had one person in the lane when I arrived apart from me, it quickly filled out to ten within five minutes! Looks like everyone had the same idea of arriving at lunchtime.
Even so - I did manage to get in a 400m without too much disturbance (except for one length). Must confess I did have to do a few quite nasty overtakes though on the turns.
First - a 400 metres time trial, then a two hundred, and later a 100m as I'd felt I was going well!
400m - PB 8:28:14 :oD (PB by 21 seconds)
200m - PB 3:56:76 :oD (1.5 second PB)
100m - PB 1:45:26 :oD (PB by 4 seconds)
Must confess that the 100m time was a complete shock as I'd done a fair few of these but not tried a 400m TT for ages.
posted by XFR Bear @ 3:49 pm
8 Comments:
cool!
Almost as fast as me!! Notttt!!
Excellent Bear!!!!
Definitly coming on in leaps and bounds
(Still doing 21 stroke lengths, me. Really need some lessons!)
Can you leap and bound when swimming? Isn't that cheating - hmmmmm! ;o)
I normally take about 22 stroeks if I don't really elongate strokes and glide
some good times there mate
now you have your times to that level start doing you 100m reps off 2:00mins (ie the rest you get is the time you finish under 2mins)
do a simmilar thing for 200m reps this way it will help you maintain a good pace for longer
cheers Will - did some of that with Lindi last summer (over 50's) - I'd forgotten the drill.
Does rather depend on a clear patch in the pool - I try to time it so that the waves of BSM are as far away as poss - and still catch the feckers up!!
Really feel like I'm making progress - getting a lot more out of each stroke :oD
[notices lack of update and shakes head]
uses Pixie for goal kicking practice, Jonny Wilkinson stylee
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