Thanksgiving workouts

Thanksgiving is approaching and it is time to resurrect the Turducken Workout, as posted by swimsuit addict in her blog two years ago. From her blog: Today my swimsuits and I decamped to Northwest Florida for the holidays. I had easy flights and arrived before noon, and was able to get in a swim at the Panama City Beach Aquatic Center this afternoon. The pool was set up SCY; here’s the workout I did. 1000 warmup (400 swim, 200 Rev IM K, 200 Pull, 200 Rev IM Drill/swim by 25) Then one of the other swimmers hailed me—it was my swimming pal Paul--I met him down here several years ago, and look forward to swimming with him whenever I visit. I felt lucky to have run into him on my first trip to the pool. I joined in with him and Joe and Jeff from Germany for the last bit of their workout, which was 100 Swim 250 Pull 150 Pull, desc. By 50s 4 x 75 Pull fast @ 1:30ish Then they all left, and I had the entire pool to myself for the rest of my workout. It seemed like a good opportunity to do my turducken set, which I hesitate to inflict on anyone who’s not a happy IMer. Turducken set: A turducken is a turkey that is stuffed with a duck, which in turn has been stuffed with a chicken. I’ve never tasted one, but I feel like I’ve been reading about them as a novelty food item for at least a decade. The latest article I saw about turducken was not about food at all, but about privacy law, and ever since I read it, the word has been rolling around in my head. So I decided I would assemble stroke turduckens by stuffing a 50 of one stroke into the middle of a 100 of another stroke, then sticking the whole thing into a 200 of yet another stroke. I did four rounds of these; on the first, turkey=fly, duck=back, and chicken=***; the strokes rotate through the IM thereafter. The set looked like this: 4 x 350 @ :30-:40 rest interval 1st 350=100 FL/50 BK/50 BR/50 BK/100 FL 2nd 350=100 BK/50 BR/50 FR/50 BR/100 BK 3rd 350=100 BR/50 FR/50 FL/50 FR/100 BR 4th 350=100 FR/50 FL/50 BK/50 FL/100 FR On each round I aimed to do the middle 50 at 200 IM pace; the 50 before it as build and the 50 after it as recovery, and the turkey 100s at the front and back at basic aerobic pace. Kick set: 7 x 100 K @ 2:00 To continue with today’s theme, I made a 400IM/200IM/100IM turducken kick set and sliced it into manageable 100 yard portions. So my 7 100s were: 100 FL 100 BK 50FL/50BK 100 IM 50BR/50FR 100 BR 100 FR Then I did a quick 200 warmdown and hopped out. This evening I went to my new (temporary) gym and did arm weights. Tomorrow I hope to get a swim in before driving up to my mom’s house in Alabama. And, of course, any Thanksgiving-themed post provides a chance for me to use this smiley: :turkey: