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I've been sick for the last week. Bummer. I'm trying to keep the weight loss constant, but I guess you have to take a setback or two every once in a while.

The congestion in my head miraculously cleared yesterday afternoon so I decided I should go work out while I had the chance. Since I was doing one of those mandatory PT sessions I had to bread my situps/crunches only once a year rule. That may start happening more often since apparently the fact that I swim a lot isn't good enough. Le sigh.

100 reps crunches, mixed regular, oblique, bicycle, and flutter kicks
40 push-ups
30 minutes (probably more, actually) running with the VunderHund

Back in the pool on Monday!

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Starting doing 200 IMs on 3:30. Each rep's interval got 5 seconds faster. When I couldn't make IMs anymore I switched to freestyle (same distance) and when I couldn't make those I dropped a 50 and went back to IM. We ended at the 35 second interval.

Was v. sore from my fitness test. The reason I swim and the reason I do dolphin kick off walls is so I don't have to do push-ups or crunches, respectively. The only time I do them is during my fitness test.

I don't know how many yards we did, but it was a lot.

I tried to go swimming today but the pool was closed due to mechanical problems.

Posted by Jitterbean Girl at 1:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Don't get me started on what a joke the fitness testing system is. I think the score -- considering that I'm still pretty out of shape and the number and type of yards I did the day before -- speaks for itself.

Run: 12:12, 53 pts
Push-ups: 45, 10 pts
Crunches: 60, 10 pts
Body composition: 160 pounds, 30 pts

Total score: 93

Posted by Jitterbean Girl at 10:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

300 warm-up
4x50 free on 1:00

4x100 on 2:00, repeated ~1:10
50 easy
4x75 on 1:30, repeated ~:50
50 easy
4x50 on 1:00, repeated ~:35
50 easy

Relays:
Freestyle Swedish relay, swam 200
50 breaststroke relay
50 backstroke relay
50 freestyle relay
50 fly

4x50 on 1:00

4x100 breaststroke pull
4x100 breaststroke kick
4x100 breaststroke drill (2 kick/1 pull)
2x100 breaststroke swim

4x50 cool-down

Total yardage: 3750

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300 free
50 breast kick
4x50 IM order on 1:00

5x200 IM on 3:15, repeated between 2:45-2:47
100 easy
5x100 IM on 1:35, repeated 1:25
100 easy
6x50 on 1:00, 2 fly, 2 back, 2 breast, focusing on technique

4x50 cool down on 1:00

Total yardage: 2750

Posted by Jitterbean Girl at 8:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Mimi wasn't going to be at the pool today and since I had a meeting at work right after practice would have let out, I decided to swim at the pool on base instead of at Ft Rich. I didn't have a ton of time or a ton of motivation (funny how swimming alone is like that) but I at least got a bit of a workout it, which is definitely better than doing nothing at all.

200 swim
100 breast kick
100 dolphin kick

4x100 free on 1:45, repeated 1:13-1:15

4x200 IM on 3:30, started at 3:00 and went about 5 seconds slower on each consecutive rep

150 breast drill and kick

Total yardage: 1750

Posted by Jitterbean Girl at 9:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

No swimming today.

Just did the elliptical for 45min at level 13, random program. Kept RPM above 55.

Posted by Jitterbean Girl at 8:36 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

250 free
4x50 free on 1:00

4x425 on 6:15, 6:30, 6:45, and 7:00
2x225 on 3:15
8x50 on :50

4x50 cool down

Total yardage (with the extra oops-I-can't-count laps added in): 2700

Next time I need to do those 425s as 450s or 475s. I made them much too comfortably. No worries though, as I'm just getting back into the serious swimming thing and so I don't really know where I am right now.

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400 free
4x50 IM order on 1:00

2x50 free, all out sprint (repeated :32)
4x75 on 1:04
4x75 on 1:05

1x200 strong (2:32)
2x100 (repeated 1:13)

4x50 IM order (relay starts)

200 cool down

Total yardage: 2100

I completely bonked on this -- especially the 75s. My arms just had nothing left after yesterday so this was not a pretty swim! Good thing I have the next couple of days off.....

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200 (400?) free
100 breast kick
100 fly kick
4x50 IM order on 1:00

2 times through:
25 on :30
50 on 1:00
75 on 1:30
100 on 2:00
75 on 1:30
50 on 1:00
25 on :30
First time through breaststroke, second time through butterfly

5x100 on 2:15 (first three IM, last two breaststroke)
3x50 fly on 1:10

4x50 cooldown

Total yardage: 2250

So I'm a crazy woman. I'm still out of shape and all, but for some reason there was a little voice in my head that was saying "yes, Mimi is much better shape than you, but she's just doing 100 fly and you're doing 100 IM! You can keep up with her!"

Not such a good voice to listen to.

And because I'm a crazy competitive person, I ended up keeping up with her alright, but I was having to get my heart rate up to like 190, 200 to do it! Not such a good idea since I don't have the maximum heart rate of a fifteen year old and dropping dead at the tender age of twenty-five isn't really my thing.

I was also working hard enough to achieve muscle failure on those last three 50s fly. By the end of each one I looked like one of those little kids who's only just now learning how to swim fly and they don't quite have the upper body strength to be able to pull it off.

Wheeeee.

I could be paying for this tomorrow.

Posted by Jitterbean Girl at 8:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Today was good. Today I swam back with the team!

It had been a year since I had last swum with them. My work schedule just wasn't letting me get to practice, but now that we're going back to The Schedule Of Doom the practice times line up better with my life. Hooray!

My stroke felt, well, weak and inconsistent. The good thing is that I was able to work on it a lot because it was a distance day... and it hurt. Always a good sign to be feelin' that lactic acid your first day back!!!! (Seriously!)

I'm still fast, apparently. This is good. Still lots of room for improvement though. A lot of improvement. And now that I'm back with the team I know I'll start shedding my excess poundage too. Not that I'm fat, but I'm a good 15 pounds heavier than I was a year and a half ago. Plus I'll pack on all that lovely swimming muscle.

It's so good to be back! I missed my swimming buddies, I missed the competition, and I missed the water. Hooray for svimmink!

Today's workout -- Monday is distance day
Warm-up:
200 free
4x50 on :30

1x800 on 12:30
1x400 on 6:30
4x200 on 3:15
4x100 on 1:40

Cool down:
4x50 on :30

Total yardage: 3000

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