2 x { 100 swim / 100 kick } (warmup)
6 x 100, 50 drill (headup, right/left arm, fist) / 50 swim
5 x 100, 25 free / 25 non / 25 free / 25 non (fly, back, breast, back, breast)
4 x 100 free on 1:55 (1:39, 1:42, 1:46, 1:44)
4 x { 2 x 50, 25 drill / 25 swim // 200 free } (last one pull for warmdown)
Total: 3100
OMG, massive lung fail today. I even had to take my rescue inhaler a couple times, and I still got a really nasty stitch on two of those 200 frees. I could actually hear myself wheezing when I was breathing.
Though this did clear something up for me. I attempted to do 25 fly in the 25 free / 25 non and I sputtered and died halfway through the lap. The stroke takes so much power and when I'm not properly oxygenated, I can't even remotely get my arms and legs working enough to get my head out of the water to breathe. I've been kind of irritated at my inability to swim 50 fly consecutively with any consistency because I feel like I should be able to do it. However, after my spectacular fail today, I think my theory about endurance (or the lack there of) is probably pretty accurate. I just don't have the endurance built up enough to swim that much fly in a row. Yet. I will get there, dang it.
I am, however, rather pleased with my times on my 100 free. They aren't great, but I was just more than happy I was making the interval and still getting 10-15 seconds rest. I tried to time my 200s, but I had some issues with running into the two swimmers who were using fins for that whole set (their turns were funny, and they came off the wall really slowly, so I had to stutter in my stroke a bit) and I only got a time on my third one, which was 3:33. At that point we were supposed to be descending from 3:30, so I should have been at 3:10, but bleh. I swam two thirds of that 200 with a stitch that felt like someone was stabbing me in the side.
Whine whine, I know. My lungs were not my friend this morning.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
3150 (49550)
200 swim (warmup)
100 backstroke kick (warmup)
2 x { 75 9-kick hesitation / 75 6-kick hesitation / 75 swim }
800 pull, breathe 3/5 by 50s
4 x 50 DPS on 1:15
800 free, build by 200
4 x 50 choice (back) on 1:20
200 pull (warmdown)
100 kick (warmdown)
100 backstroke kick (warmdown)
Total: 3150
Man, it's been a tough week for 5:00AM. Today my backup alarm (5:15) woke me up, and even though I rushed, I still left the house four minutes late, which put me at the pool four minutes late. I missed about 300 yards of warmup, but I did get 300, so it ended up being okay.
After warmup, Laurie got graduated to lane two because we had five people (Laurie, JD, Jim, myself, and Alex was back, finally) in lane one. She left before I got a chance to talk to her, so I don't know how she held up (they had about 800 more yards than us today, though I'm not sure if they finished that core set or not). I haven't seen Tom this week so far. I'm not sure if he's busy, or if he decided he'd had enough, heh. Jim's still sticking it out despite the fact that I can tell it's hard on him, especially the distance sets. It sounds dumb, but I'm proud of him for staying.
Alex lead most of the laps (because he's way the heck faster than me - he apparently used to play water polo in Brazil, and you can totally tell by his physique), and it worked pretty well. He did lap me on that second 800, but my goal on that one was just to finish without stopping, so I didn't mind. And I did finish it, and surprizingly felt really strong in my last 150. I thought I was going to die, so it was defintely a confidence booster to complete the set and to do it without feeling like I was going to expire.
I did squats and lunges yesterday and it hurts like holy hell to walk, stand up, use stairs, etc. Kicking, however, didn't bother me at all today. Win. I felt really good on all my sets today, actually. My backstroke is feeling really good now too, fast and symmetrical and actually less difficult than it used to. I was getting between :57 and 1:02 on those 50s, which isn't bad considering I still don't really do a turn on those. I need to work on that.
As far as DPS, I was getting right around 37-40 strokes per 50, which again, not too shabby. Joel McKenna says he got 38 on a 50 free the other day, and he's been swimming masters for five years (and has two top ten rankings in USMS events), so I don't feel bad about my stroke count. I really think my freestyle stroke is getting to be really efficient. I have a really smooth exchange, and I do a decent job of having high elbows when I do my pull. I think if I can get my kick to be a bit more active consistently, I could start getting a lot faster.
Finally, mostly for my reference: JD was telling me today about this crazy guy named Pavel Tsatsouline and his sort of radical stretching and strentgh techniques. He has a (horribly designed) website which I might attempt to check out later.
100 backstroke kick (warmup)
2 x { 75 9-kick hesitation / 75 6-kick hesitation / 75 swim }
800 pull, breathe 3/5 by 50s
4 x 50 DPS on 1:15
800 free, build by 200
4 x 50 choice (back) on 1:20
200 pull (warmdown)
100 kick (warmdown)
100 backstroke kick (warmdown)
Total: 3150
Man, it's been a tough week for 5:00AM. Today my backup alarm (5:15) woke me up, and even though I rushed, I still left the house four minutes late, which put me at the pool four minutes late. I missed about 300 yards of warmup, but I did get 300, so it ended up being okay.
After warmup, Laurie got graduated to lane two because we had five people (Laurie, JD, Jim, myself, and Alex was back, finally) in lane one. She left before I got a chance to talk to her, so I don't know how she held up (they had about 800 more yards than us today, though I'm not sure if they finished that core set or not). I haven't seen Tom this week so far. I'm not sure if he's busy, or if he decided he'd had enough, heh. Jim's still sticking it out despite the fact that I can tell it's hard on him, especially the distance sets. It sounds dumb, but I'm proud of him for staying.
Alex lead most of the laps (because he's way the heck faster than me - he apparently used to play water polo in Brazil, and you can totally tell by his physique), and it worked pretty well. He did lap me on that second 800, but my goal on that one was just to finish without stopping, so I didn't mind. And I did finish it, and surprizingly felt really strong in my last 150. I thought I was going to die, so it was defintely a confidence booster to complete the set and to do it without feeling like I was going to expire.
I did squats and lunges yesterday and it hurts like holy hell to walk, stand up, use stairs, etc. Kicking, however, didn't bother me at all today. Win. I felt really good on all my sets today, actually. My backstroke is feeling really good now too, fast and symmetrical and actually less difficult than it used to. I was getting between :57 and 1:02 on those 50s, which isn't bad considering I still don't really do a turn on those. I need to work on that.
As far as DPS, I was getting right around 37-40 strokes per 50, which again, not too shabby. Joel McKenna says he got 38 on a 50 free the other day, and he's been swimming masters for five years (and has two top ten rankings in USMS events), so I don't feel bad about my stroke count. I really think my freestyle stroke is getting to be really efficient. I have a really smooth exchange, and I do a decent job of having high elbows when I do my pull. I think if I can get my kick to be a bit more active consistently, I could start getting a lot faster.
Finally, mostly for my reference: JD was telling me today about this crazy guy named Pavel Tsatsouline and his sort of radical stretching and strentgh techniques. He has a (horribly designed) website which I might attempt to check out later.
Monday, January 26, 2009
1000 (46400)
Stroke Clinic
100 free (warmup)
100 pull (warmup)
50 back
25 free / 25 back (the free was because I had to go get one of the guards to tighten the lane line, and the guard office is at the far end of the pool, heh)
2 x 50 back
50 breast
5 x 50 breaststroke kick
2 x 50 breast
2 x 25 fly / 25 backstroke kick
100 pull (warmdown)
Total: 1000
Chris took me and Ann to the diving well to practice diving again. I'm getting better at it, I think. Maybe. It's a bit of a slow process.
Other than that, the only thing I wanted to note here is that I learned the difference between frog kick and whip kick today. And that is the width of your straddle when you straighten your legs. A whip kick can not be more than the width of two fists between your knees apart. If that makes sense. Anything wider than that is a frog kick. Incidentally, frog kick is illegal in competitive breaststroke (resulting in a DQ).
I, of course, was doing a frog kick. Which is why I got to do all those laps of whip kick, to fix it. Chris said I was doing much better after all the laps with the board, so yay. I also think I've managed to fix my backstroke catch between this morning and this afternoon, which is another win. Let's just hope I remember all this by Wednesday, hah.
100 free (warmup)
100 pull (warmup)
50 back
25 free / 25 back (the free was because I had to go get one of the guards to tighten the lane line, and the guard office is at the far end of the pool, heh)
2 x 50 back
50 breast
5 x 50 breaststroke kick
2 x 50 breast
2 x 25 fly / 25 backstroke kick
100 pull (warmdown)
Total: 1000
Chris took me and Ann to the diving well to practice diving again. I'm getting better at it, I think. Maybe. It's a bit of a slow process.
Other than that, the only thing I wanted to note here is that I learned the difference between frog kick and whip kick today. And that is the width of your straddle when you straighten your legs. A whip kick can not be more than the width of two fists between your knees apart. If that makes sense. Anything wider than that is a frog kick. Incidentally, frog kick is illegal in competitive breaststroke (resulting in a DQ).
I, of course, was doing a frog kick. Which is why I got to do all those laps of whip kick, to fix it. Chris said I was doing much better after all the laps with the board, so yay. I also think I've managed to fix my backstroke catch between this morning and this afternoon, which is another win. Let's just hope I remember all this by Wednesday, hah.
3200 (45400)
200 swim (warmup)
200 pull (warmup)
100 kick (warmup)
8 x 50, even kick / odd drill (back/free/fly/breast) on 1:00
400 pull
400 negative interval
200 non-free (back)
100 fly kick fast
400 negative interval
250 non-free (back)
200 negative interval
100 fly kick fast
150 pull (warmdown)
200 back (warmdown)
4 x 25 fly recovery on :30 (warmdown)
Total: 3200
General feeling of the day: ARGH.
We had snow last night, which means my drive to the pool this morning was the "taking your life into your own hands" sort. Which means a) not fun, and b) I was late. Shock and awe.
I had the late hockey game last night (9:30), so I wasn't in bed until midnight, and I woke up at 4:00AM for some reason, so when the alarm went off at 5:00 I really, really considered rolling over and going back to bed for another two hours. Plus Jeff (the boyfriend) is off on Mondays now, so he was still up and watching the 2003 World Series (of all things) on TV, and the idea of curling up on the couch with him was pretty appealing too.
But I swam anyway.
Holy cow, though, it was irritating today. That main set up there (starting at the 400 pull and ending at the warmdown) is nothing like what our coach wrote on the whiteboard for several reasons. The most prominent of those is that Laurie can't count/remember directions, and the other gal who was in our lane today was really slow, and kept stopping on random 25s.
Laurie was driving me bonkers. She can't count on good days, but she was really off today. And she ends up leading most of the time because she's the fastest swimmer in our lane. Because of the counting issues, we lost 100 pull, a 200 negative split, and about 150 non-free. We ended right at 7:00 before the warm down, so we wouldn't have finished the set anyway, but it was making me crazy.
Also crazy making are the people who can't/don't want to swim the freestyle sets. It's really, really hard for me to make a 400 negative split when my lanemates are randomly switching to backstroke or breaststroke in the middle of a set. Maybe it's because of the order I learned my strokes in, but freestyle is by far my fastest, so it always confuses me when people would rather swim breaststroke or fly or something. Those strokes kill me, and they are so slow it's not even funny.
Blah blah blah. I didn't plan those 25 fly recovery sets, but when I got done messing with my backstroke, Leigh Ann and Evan were doing them and Leigh Ann invited me to do them too. The way they work is that you start with three strokes fly, then finish the 25 with freestyle. You do four 25s that way, then you do four 25s with four strokes fly, then with five strokes, all the way to seven. I, obviously, only did the three strokes set, partially because it was getting late and I needed to get to work, and partially because I was tired.
Still tired, still sore, but I'm going to stroke clinic anyway because I have to miss it on Wednesday to go to the dentist. Woo. :p
200 pull (warmup)
100 kick (warmup)
8 x 50, even kick / odd drill (back/free/fly/breast) on 1:00
400 pull
400 negative interval
200 non-free (back)
100 fly kick fast
400 negative interval
250 non-free (back)
200 negative interval
100 fly kick fast
150 pull (warmdown)
200 back (warmdown)
4 x 25 fly recovery on :30 (warmdown)
Total: 3200
General feeling of the day: ARGH.
We had snow last night, which means my drive to the pool this morning was the "taking your life into your own hands" sort. Which means a) not fun, and b) I was late. Shock and awe.
I had the late hockey game last night (9:30), so I wasn't in bed until midnight, and I woke up at 4:00AM for some reason, so when the alarm went off at 5:00 I really, really considered rolling over and going back to bed for another two hours. Plus Jeff (the boyfriend) is off on Mondays now, so he was still up and watching the 2003 World Series (of all things) on TV, and the idea of curling up on the couch with him was pretty appealing too.
But I swam anyway.
Holy cow, though, it was irritating today. That main set up there (starting at the 400 pull and ending at the warmdown) is nothing like what our coach wrote on the whiteboard for several reasons. The most prominent of those is that Laurie can't count/remember directions, and the other gal who was in our lane today was really slow, and kept stopping on random 25s.
Laurie was driving me bonkers. She can't count on good days, but she was really off today. And she ends up leading most of the time because she's the fastest swimmer in our lane. Because of the counting issues, we lost 100 pull, a 200 negative split, and about 150 non-free. We ended right at 7:00 before the warm down, so we wouldn't have finished the set anyway, but it was making me crazy.
Also crazy making are the people who can't/don't want to swim the freestyle sets. It's really, really hard for me to make a 400 negative split when my lanemates are randomly switching to backstroke or breaststroke in the middle of a set. Maybe it's because of the order I learned my strokes in, but freestyle is by far my fastest, so it always confuses me when people would rather swim breaststroke or fly or something. Those strokes kill me, and they are so slow it's not even funny.
Blah blah blah. I didn't plan those 25 fly recovery sets, but when I got done messing with my backstroke, Leigh Ann and Evan were doing them and Leigh Ann invited me to do them too. The way they work is that you start with three strokes fly, then finish the 25 with freestyle. You do four 25s that way, then you do four 25s with four strokes fly, then with five strokes, all the way to seven. I, obviously, only did the three strokes set, partially because it was getting late and I needed to get to work, and partially because I was tired.
Still tired, still sore, but I'm going to stroke clinic anyway because I have to miss it on Wednesday to go to the dentist. Woo. :p
Friday, January 23, 2009
2700 (42200)
200 swim (warmup)
100 kick (warmup)
100 drill (warmup)
4 x 50 free on 1:05
50 non (back) on 1:30
4 x 50 free on 1:00
50 non (back) on 1:20
2 x { 175 free on 3:30 / 125 free fast on 2:30 }
2 x { 150 free on 3:00 / 125 free fast on 2:30 }
10 x 50 dolphin kick with fins, evens with board, odds streamline on back on 1:10
25 free sprint (from dive)
25 free
100 pull (warmdown)
Total: 2700
Low yardage again today, but I don't care because I love swimming and I love my coach and I love my teammates and my lanemates and my new swimsuit and and and... Yes. Everything. I'm so, so in love with this sport.
About the only thing I don't love about it (besides having to share the locker room with the high school girls after practice) is getting up at 5:00AM. I had hockey practice last night, and that goes until 11:00, so it was 11:30 before I got home and it took an hour or so to wind myself down (plus I had to eat dinner part two), so I didn't get into bed until 12:30, and didn't fall asleep until after 1:00AM. Nng. I have a feeling I'm going to be really, really tired about three this afternoon.
So, today. I swam a 50 back in :59! Which is totally lame, but it made me happy as hell. My 50 frees are getting to be about :51 when I'm not sprinting, which I'm not sad about either. And then that 25 we had to do from a dive I got, like, :18 on or something. I really think I lose a lot as far as overall time on things because my turns are so awful. I do these lazy sort of open turns because I'm always tired, and I really should at least work on making them stronger, if not forcing myself to do more flip turns.
It was Reubin's fault that we ended up doing the dive start, but it was fun! I'm still terrified to go off the blocks (because Chris told me a story about a guy who broke his neck doing it, so now I'm freaked), but I went off the side of the pool and didn't do too badly. I was talking to Evan after practice and he said he could help teach me to go off the actual bulkhead, since Chris isn't allowed to do that. So yay! I can't wait!
Blah blah blah, in conculsion, swimming, ILU!
100 kick (warmup)
100 drill (warmup)
4 x 50 free on 1:05
50 non (back) on 1:30
4 x 50 free on 1:00
50 non (back) on 1:20
2 x { 175 free on 3:30 / 125 free fast on 2:30 }
2 x { 150 free on 3:00 / 125 free fast on 2:30 }
10 x 50 dolphin kick with fins, evens with board, odds streamline on back on 1:10
25 free sprint (from dive)
25 free
100 pull (warmdown)
Total: 2700
Low yardage again today, but I don't care because I love swimming and I love my coach and I love my teammates and my lanemates and my new swimsuit and and and... Yes. Everything. I'm so, so in love with this sport.
About the only thing I don't love about it (besides having to share the locker room with the high school girls after practice) is getting up at 5:00AM. I had hockey practice last night, and that goes until 11:00, so it was 11:30 before I got home and it took an hour or so to wind myself down (plus I had to eat dinner part two), so I didn't get into bed until 12:30, and didn't fall asleep until after 1:00AM. Nng. I have a feeling I'm going to be really, really tired about three this afternoon.
So, today. I swam a 50 back in :59! Which is totally lame, but it made me happy as hell. My 50 frees are getting to be about :51 when I'm not sprinting, which I'm not sad about either. And then that 25 we had to do from a dive I got, like, :18 on or something. I really think I lose a lot as far as overall time on things because my turns are so awful. I do these lazy sort of open turns because I'm always tired, and I really should at least work on making them stronger, if not forcing myself to do more flip turns.
It was Reubin's fault that we ended up doing the dive start, but it was fun! I'm still terrified to go off the blocks (because Chris told me a story about a guy who broke his neck doing it, so now I'm freaked), but I went off the side of the pool and didn't do too badly. I was talking to Evan after practice and he said he could help teach me to go off the actual bulkhead, since Chris isn't allowed to do that. So yay! I can't wait!
Blah blah blah, in conculsion, swimming, ILU!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
1250 (39500)
Stroke Clinic
2 x 100 free pull
2 x 100 back pull
5 x 50 free pull, breathe 5/7 by 25
3 x 50 free
25 fly / 25 drown (free)
4 x 100 free/back by 25
Total: 1250
I told Chris when I got to the pool (which was between five and ten minutes late) that my quads were dead. And she, being the charitable woman she is, told me go to ahead and pull a bunch of my workout at the beginning. Hence the four 100 pull sets at the top. I did the 200 free as my warmup, then did 200 back with Ann and Kimberlee as part of their warmup. Or something. I think we were all slacking today.
Pulling on my back, btw, still sucks. Every time I stroke with my right arm, my face goes underwater. I actually put my nose clip on so that I would stop inhaling pool water. I don't know if it's because I can't find my buoyancy point with the buoy yet (I tried about four different placements with nothing but extra fail) or issues with my stroke or what. Ick.
The next set was obviously breathing control, and Chris sent us on breathing every 3/5 per 25, but it was way too easy considering I was still pulling, so I did the second through fourth set as 5/7, and then did my last 50 breathing every 9 or so (which ends up being between 2-3 breaths per 25).
After that we did a drill where we were supposed to chase each other and attempt to touch each other's feet. If we got our foot touched, we'd have to start the 50 over. Except it turns out none of us were mean enough to force each other to do extra 50s, and, to be honest, I had a serious advantage over my lanemates here. I lead the first 50 and swam my ass off, then spent the next two 50s attempting to not run them over but staying close enough that it forced them to keep swimming fast.
Of course then Chris wandered off and we got bored, so they swam another 50 free and I attempted a 50 fly. But my thighs were still so sore than I only managed 25 fly and then about 1/3 of the second 25 before I switched to freestyle.
The last set was a warmdown type set, four 50s alternating between free and back by 25s. For some reason I didn't lead these ones, so I spent the whole time trying to give my lanemates enough lead time that I didn't run into them. I used these pauses to practice my front and back dolphin kick off the wall, though I wasn't feeling energetic enough to do flipturns at all.
2 x 100 free pull
2 x 100 back pull
5 x 50 free pull, breathe 5/7 by 25
3 x 50 free
25 fly / 25 drown (free)
4 x 100 free/back by 25
Total: 1250
I told Chris when I got to the pool (which was between five and ten minutes late) that my quads were dead. And she, being the charitable woman she is, told me go to ahead and pull a bunch of my workout at the beginning. Hence the four 100 pull sets at the top. I did the 200 free as my warmup, then did 200 back with Ann and Kimberlee as part of their warmup. Or something. I think we were all slacking today.
Pulling on my back, btw, still sucks. Every time I stroke with my right arm, my face goes underwater. I actually put my nose clip on so that I would stop inhaling pool water. I don't know if it's because I can't find my buoyancy point with the buoy yet (I tried about four different placements with nothing but extra fail) or issues with my stroke or what. Ick.
The next set was obviously breathing control, and Chris sent us on breathing every 3/5 per 25, but it was way too easy considering I was still pulling, so I did the second through fourth set as 5/7, and then did my last 50 breathing every 9 or so (which ends up being between 2-3 breaths per 25).
After that we did a drill where we were supposed to chase each other and attempt to touch each other's feet. If we got our foot touched, we'd have to start the 50 over. Except it turns out none of us were mean enough to force each other to do extra 50s, and, to be honest, I had a serious advantage over my lanemates here. I lead the first 50 and swam my ass off, then spent the next two 50s attempting to not run them over but staying close enough that it forced them to keep swimming fast.
Of course then Chris wandered off and we got bored, so they swam another 50 free and I attempted a 50 fly. But my thighs were still so sore than I only managed 25 fly and then about 1/3 of the second 25 before I switched to freestyle.
The last set was a warmdown type set, four 50s alternating between free and back by 25s. For some reason I didn't lead these ones, so I spent the whole time trying to give my lanemates enough lead time that I didn't run into them. I used these pauses to practice my front and back dolphin kick off the wall, though I wasn't feeling energetic enough to do flipturns at all.
2800 (38250)
300 swim (warmup)
6 x 75 (25 side kick right / 25 side kick left / 25 swim) - 5 x 75 free, 1 x 75 fly
3 x 150 (50 9-kick hesitation / 50 6-kick hesitation / 50 swim), last 150 with fins
8 x 75 (25 right arm / 25 left arm / 25 swim) on 1:45 (free/back/fly/free/back/fly/free/back) with fins
100 free, breathe every 5
200 IM/stroke (back)
300 free, breathe every 3
200 IM/stroke (back)
100 free, breathe every 3
100 pull (warmdown)
Total: 2800
I've never been so glad to be done with a swimming set in my life.
Yesterday in my fitness class we did lunges. I don't think I've done a lunge since I was a member of Pulse, and that's been at least three years ago. My quads and my glutes are killing me today. It hurts to walk up stairs. Hell, it hurts to walk period. So kicking this morning? Supreme pain. My dolphin kick was so bad as a result that my butterfly looked more like butterdie. And felt like it, too.
So much kicking, too. The hesitation drills are a ton of kicking, then those one arm sets make your legs compensate a little more and ugh. JD asked me how my legs were feeling before the 300 free and I said it felt like I was being stabbed by a hundred knives. I can't think of a more accurate way to describe the agony.
Speaking of JD, he told me that he was attempting to swim fly for half an hour straight on Monday. I told him my arms hurt just watching him, and he said that's the only reason to do it, for the pain. I can totally buy that. OW.
Oh, I timed one of my 50s of those 200 back sets and it looked like it was about 1:10, which isn't horrible I guess, considering the afore mentioned 100 knives thing my legs were doing and the fact that I have no turn whatsoever on backstroke. Evan timed us on our last 100 free and I got a 1:34 on it, which puts my 50s at about :47 (though I can pretty much guarantee my first 50 was a lot faster than my second). That's really not bad, especially at the end of practice. Improvement at the very least.
Of course I'm still planning to go to stroke clinic today, despite the fact that I'm walking around like someone punched me in both my thighs. I have a meeting at 1:30 today, though, so I might duck out a little early.
6 x 75 (25 side kick right / 25 side kick left / 25 swim) - 5 x 75 free, 1 x 75 fly
3 x 150 (50 9-kick hesitation / 50 6-kick hesitation / 50 swim), last 150 with fins
8 x 75 (25 right arm / 25 left arm / 25 swim) on 1:45 (free/back/fly/free/back/fly/free/back) with fins
100 free, breathe every 5
200 IM/stroke (back)
300 free, breathe every 3
200 IM/stroke (back)
100 free, breathe every 3
100 pull (warmdown)
Total: 2800
I've never been so glad to be done with a swimming set in my life.
Yesterday in my fitness class we did lunges. I don't think I've done a lunge since I was a member of Pulse, and that's been at least three years ago. My quads and my glutes are killing me today. It hurts to walk up stairs. Hell, it hurts to walk period. So kicking this morning? Supreme pain. My dolphin kick was so bad as a result that my butterfly looked more like butterdie. And felt like it, too.
So much kicking, too. The hesitation drills are a ton of kicking, then those one arm sets make your legs compensate a little more and ugh. JD asked me how my legs were feeling before the 300 free and I said it felt like I was being stabbed by a hundred knives. I can't think of a more accurate way to describe the agony.
Speaking of JD, he told me that he was attempting to swim fly for half an hour straight on Monday. I told him my arms hurt just watching him, and he said that's the only reason to do it, for the pain. I can totally buy that. OW.
Oh, I timed one of my 50s of those 200 back sets and it looked like it was about 1:10, which isn't horrible I guess, considering the afore mentioned 100 knives thing my legs were doing and the fact that I have no turn whatsoever on backstroke. Evan timed us on our last 100 free and I got a 1:34 on it, which puts my 50s at about :47 (though I can pretty much guarantee my first 50 was a lot faster than my second). That's really not bad, especially at the end of practice. Improvement at the very least.
Of course I'm still planning to go to stroke clinic today, despite the fact that I'm walking around like someone punched me in both my thighs. I have a meeting at 1:30 today, though, so I might duck out a little early.
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