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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.

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400 warm-up

50 fly on 1:00
100 (50 fly/50 back) on 1:40
150 (50 fly/50 back/50 breast) on 2:20
200 on 3:00 (200 broken IM - second 25 of each 50 is free)
250 on 3:40 (100 fly/50 back/50 breast/50 free broken)
250 on 4:30 (100 breast, 50 free, 100 breast)
300 on 5:20 (200 breast, 100 free)
350 (200 breast, 100 free, 50 breast)

6 x 100 (even breast/odd free) on 1:45

4 x 50 cool-down

Total distance: 2850yd/1.62mi

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250 warm-up

16 swims, starting with the 200 IM
Interval started on 3:15 and went down to 2:00
Every time you didn't make an interval you decreased 50yd

So I did:
200 IM on 3:15, 3:10, 3:05
150 IM (omitted breaststroke because my adductor was twingy) on 3:00, 2:55, 2:50, 2:45, 2:40, 2:35, 2:30, 2:25, 2:20
100 IM (doing dolphin kick instead of breaststroke) on 2:15, 2:10, 2:05, and 2:10

Also did a length on the bungee belt... almost made it to the flags!

Total distance: 2800yd/1.6mi

Noticed that my fly entry problems (it's really hard to keep my hands from coming together when they should be staying at shoulder width) are probably due to the direction of momentum of my arms on the recovery. When I made an effort to swing my arms forward instead of forward and together my hands were at the proper width on my catch. Sweet!

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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)