Feeling like an old woman on Friday's IM day
My back is killing me today. It's been hurting all week (I chalk it up to my three weeks of forced inactivity plus the physical fitness test that worked only my abs leading to a core imbalance and hence a sore back) but today it was especially not fun, and doubly so on the flip turns. I found that breaststroke helped because the action used to pull the torso out of the water uses those lower back muscles. I'm still a little stiff, but much better than I was this morning.
250 warm-up
10 x 200 IM, 2 on 3:30, 2 on 3:25 and so on (repeated 3:05)
50 easy
8 x 100 breast, 2 on 1:45, 2 on 1:40 and so on, taking breaks every two (repeated about 1:30)
4 x 50 cool-down
3300yd/1.875mi