Eau Du Chlorine

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

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Morning
300 warm-up with paddles
4x50 free on 1:00

3x550 free on 8:00 (repeated 7:35-ish)
2x450 free on 7:00 (repeated 6:15-ish)

4x50 cool down

Total distance: 3250yd/1.85mi

Afternoon (guessimation):
200 or 300 warm-up with paddles
200 freestyle drill

4x100 free on 1:30

8x50 fly on :55

500 free
300 free

Total distance: 2050-ish yds/1.2-ish mi

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Having been out of the water for three weeks after the Martian Death Flu followed by holy-crap-it-never-gets-dark-here insomnia, I returned to swimming today. It's always so much fun to come back on a distance day... after all, when Monday is a federal holidy we've got to make those yards up somewhere, and that somewhere is usually Tuesday.

4 x 50 free warm-up

900 free on 13:00 (went about 12:15)
2 x 450 free on 6:30
2 x 200 IM on 3:15
4 x 100 IM on 1:40 (went about 1:35)

4 x 25 easy

8 x 75 free on 1:10 (repeated about :55)

4 x 25 cool-down

Total yardage: 3600 (plus warm-up on my own)

Posted by Jitterbean Girl at 8:06 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Turns out that I am not, as previously thought, un-sick.

I got up for practice today. Felt... eh. I decided to get my butt to the pool anyway because it had been a week and a half and all my symptoms were above the neck. I'm stubborn like that. You gotta love my mom and me for that. Besides, I had worked out the last two days and felt fine. There hadn't been any ill effects from my physical expenditures those two dryland days.

Warm-up was ok... warm-up is usually ok.

But then we got right to business. I had no energy, no get-up-and-go, no spark, no motivation to actually push myself. And then I started to feel like crap below the neck. I actually got out in the middle of a set to sit down for a minute and drink some water.

So I finished out the set, feeling worse than ever, and then got out of the pool. I didn't even finish the workout -- which is highly unusual for me. I just didn't think I was doing myself any favors. I took a nice long shower, got dressed, went home, took a dose of NyQuil, and slept for six hours.

And then I woke up and couldn't talk anymore. The voice is gone. So much for no ill effects, huh?

So the pool is definitely out tomorrow. My next opportunity after that will be Friday. We'll see if I'm feeling up to it.

The workout:
100 free warm-up
4x50 on 1:00

6x350 free on 5:00 (although the last two were 325s, hooray for sickie)

Then I got out.

Total yardage: 2350

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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.

Posted by Jitterbean Girl at 8:12 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)