Pool Swimming

Missed Wednesday's workout in favour of the Massey Lecture, so when Coach sent out the workout, I did it at my rec centre 25-yard pool. This is probably a fudging of what was intended, but it's my best interpretation.

Because it's a yard pool, I have the times for 25 metre lengths in square brackets. 25y = 22.86m

Warm-up:

100y easy
200y zipper / catch-up
200y fast / easy
4x 25y kicks all-out
100y pull

Main Course:

2x 300y (6:45)
5:50 / 5:53
[6:23 / 6:26]

4x 200y (4:30)
3:52 / 3:51 / 3:55 / 3:52
[4:14 / 4:13 / 4:17 / 4:14]
I finally started feeling really smooth midway through the 200s and could hold a nice stroke for the whole distance.

6x 100y (2:15)
1:52 / 1:51 / 1:52 / 1:50 / 1:55 / 1:50
[2:02 / 2:01 / 2:02 / 2:00 / 2:06 / 2:00]

This is pretty slow, but it's hard to get going without the team. Still, I felt much better on the 100s.

4x 50y hypoxic / sprint
(0,0,0,0)
These were short, and they were extremely easy, even with the sprints. I actually enjoyed them. They forced me to swim really smoothly. It was like the snorkel workouts, except without all the stress!

--Distance: 2,900y [2,650m]
--Duration: 75mins