400 warm-up
All freestyle, all on 1:15:
100 sprint
50 easy
100 sprint
2 x 50 easy
100 sprint
3 x 50 easy
100 sprint
Mimi told me to repeat 1:10 but I've been out of the water a lot... repeated between 1:12s and 1:14s.
150 easy
All freestyle, sprints on :35 and easy on 1:15:
50 sprint
50 easy
50 sprint
2 x 50 easy
50 sprint
3 x 50 easy
50 sprint
100 easy
Swedish relay - swam 100 in total
4 x 50 breaststroke relay
4 x 25 cool-down
Total distance: 2100yd/1.19mi
300 warm-up
All on 1:30 -
25 breast/75 free
50 breast/50 free
75 breast/25 free
100 breast
100 free
100 breast
(I made the first one by about 5 seconds and didn't make a single one after that)
4 x 50 kick on 1:05
All on 1:40 -
25 back/75 free
50 back/50 free
75 back/25 free
2 x 100 back
(not a whole lot more rest on this one)
4 x 50 kick on 1:05
4 x 100 breast on 1:45 (went 1:35, 1:40, 1:35, 1:38)
4 x 50 cool-down
Total distance: 2400yd/1.63mi
First practice since the Friday like ten days ago - stupid night shift. I felt like absolute crap. A headache led to nausea and my muscles were just not cooperating. Yuck.
250 warm-up
2 x
{
300 breast on 5:00
2 x 150 breast on 2:30
4 x 75, odds free, evens breast on 1:15
}
4 x 50 kick on 1:05
4 x 50 cool-down
Total distance: 2450yd/1.39mi
300 warm-up
5 x 175 pull with paddles, buoy, and tied-up feet on 3:00
5 x 200 swim on 3:00 (repeated about 2:43)
3 x 175 swim on 2:50
4 x 50 cool-down
Total distance: 2900yd/1.65mi
I do not like tying up my feet on pull. They sink like rocks and totally mess up my body position and I couldn't even focus on my stroke because I was trying to keep my body steady in the water. I spent the rest of practice trying to get my stroke back. I was struggling to get a stroke count of 13, whereas yesterday on my second swim I was getting 12 pretty easily. It wasn't a question of fatigue either. Next time I think I'll just pass on tying up the feet.
300 warm-up
4 x 50 warm-up
4 x 100 negative split on 1:45
1 x 100 fast on 1:08
5 x 50 kick on 1:05
4 x 50 free on 1:00, emphasize kick off walls
4 x 25 on :40, towing another behind me with bungee belt
4 x 50 swim on :40
4 x 50 cool-down
Total distance: 1950yd/1.11mi
Second swim that afternoon: met with a friend to help her with her stroke. Didn't go a whole lot, but got in a least another 1200 yards (maybe even a mile... maybe) in the form of backstroke drill (yep, my entry is still too close to my head), 100 breast, and 200 free.
Skipped practice this morning because I had a Labor Day cookout at my house that ran late into the night, so I went after work. I knew that Mimi had the team swim distance day because that's what she does when the pool is closed on Monday, so I did my best to channel her. It was my first day back in a week - I was on watch last week and it's really super hard to go to practice and then work a 12hr shift.
400 free warm-up
100 breast kick
100 dolphin kick
4 x 100 free on 1:35
4 x 500 free, trying to maintain 13 strokes per 25 (repeated about 6:45-ish? I might have done too much by about 100 on the last one)
4 x 50 cool-down
Total distance: 3200yd/1.82mi