training diary

[Verity]

Cos today's NER's was a bit of a training session

800 Warm Up
400 free 5.20.17*
240 swim down
50 Breast 39.87
100 Free 1.12.48
300 Swim Down
200 IM 3.05.88
100 Back 1.31.91
300 Swim Down
200 Free 2.39.69
50 Back 42.78
50 Fly 40.17
700 Swim Down
3440 Metres total

*200 split 2.37.70

V

http://bingeswimming.blogspot.com/

[Spidey]

Good split in the 400, guessing you were tired by the time the 200 came around.

[Verity]

Knackered is a bit more accurate!

[Leprechaun]

First pool set in about 8 months, at least involving lanes and not a polo ball.

Was around 1700m, involved a lot of something called SFK - maybe not the acronym I'd have for it.

Knee hurt like hell so maybe I wont feature in the 50 br at Sheffield. After about 1200m I forgot I was in a pool and banged head on wall during some SPK (I think) - aka backstroke kicking.

It can only get better, as the song goes.

[Spidey]

200 free, 200 free pull
200 kick, 200 full.
8x100 free, sprinting the first 37.5m
200 recovery.
50 fly kick, 50 fly drill, 200 fly
100 back kick, 200 back
50 Brst kick, 50 Brst 2 kick 1 pull, 200 Brst.
50 free kick, 50 Fre finger trail, 200 free.
200 swim down.


Yes, 200 fly, don't know why.

[MadHighroller]

Last night;
3 mile cycle to pool
3.2k swim
3 mile cycle home.
(still no car !)

[Spidey]

Originally Posted by MadHighroller

Last night;
3 mile cycle to pool
3.2k swim
3 mile cycle home.
(still no car !)

Is lake swimming over for you as well?

[MadHighroller]

Originally Posted by Spidey

Is lake swimming over for you as well?

Yes, that happened weeks ago !

[Tewson Veste]

I don't tend to post too many sessions, but this one was interesting.

Warm up (Keep swimming until I tell you to stop said coach) Managed 800 some did rather more.

Main set. 3 x ( 50 flat out, change lane for 400 steady, 2 mins rest) Sprints from blocks and timed.

3 x 75 swim down

Total only 2375 in a hour. My 3 50's were all within a second of seasons best and the first on only 0.4 slower than my weekend meet at Millfield.

[Spidey]

Did 25k last night, all over London and I was not under the influence. Starting at 10:30pm and finished at 5:30am. Lots to see and too many stopping places for my liking.

All this for The Big Issue Foundation, and if you feel so inclined you can click here to help support this worthy charity.

[Verity]

Pretty average session


400 free warm up
8 x 100 @ 1.45 bilateral breathing
8 x 75 @ 85 as 12.5 left arm, 12.5 right arm, 25 catch up 25 swim
8 x 50's @ 60 s turns sprint in and out no breathing in the red zone streamline & dolphin kick off wall
8 x 25's @ 45 first 4 sprint first 12.5m second 4 sprint last 12.5m
9 x 4 x 25 @ 2mins IM prog 1-3*
100 swim down
600 pull with paddles
4000 m total

* these kind of snuck up on you pretty painfully and was extremely hard work
V

http://bingeswimming.blogspot.com/

[missjackiechan]

any suggestions for gym training not using my arms!

I cant run as this moves my arm...would exercise bike or leg exercises help with kick?

[Speedy Gonzalez]

Originally Posted by missjackiechan

any suggestions for gym training not using my arms!

I cant run as this moves my arm...would exercise bike or leg exercises help with kick?

What have you done to your arm?

When I was out of action arm-wise, I did a lot of exercise bike, stair master and cross trainer (without the arm bits). I also did leg exercises with weights.

Whether or not it helped my kick I don't know, but my legs did get stronger, and I find the gym so boring, I was desperate to get back in the water, which meant I didn't whinge about the sets for, ooooh, at least a week.

[Verity]

This was extremely painful

266 free
200 up free down brst
133 up free down back
66 free
3 x 133 @ 2.20s
3 x 100 @ 1.50s
3 x 66 @ 70s
3 x 33 @ 60s sprint
2 x 33 @ 60s sprint
2 x 66 @ 65s
2 x 100 @ 1.40s
2 x 133 @ 2.10s
1 x 133 @ 2 mins
1 x 100 @ 1.30s
1 x 66 @ 60s
1 x 33
200 swim down
2866m total

V

http://bingeswimming.blogspot.com/

[Limerick]

Did a session yesterday in the pool by myself, as part of my preperation for the 400M coming up in a few weeks. Did a 300m warm up, then main set, 5 x IM, swam as 1 x 800m off 16 mins, 2 x 2 400m swam off 8 mins, and 2 x 2
200M off 4 mins.
My times were:
800m IM in 14.00, 2 x 400m IM in 6.59 and 6.57, and 2 x 200m IM in 3.26 and 3.22, then 200m warm down, total time was 60 mins, total distance was 2500m.
Was happy with my times for the 2 x 400m fly given I had just swam an 800IM before that, think I may be able to puch the 400m IM at the gala now, if I can keep this training up for the next few weeks...