In a crazy (and fruitless) attempt to recapture my youth, I do look forward to the holiday break when inevitably we all have at least one set or one practice where our master's coach throws us a doozy set (and we may have a 2 hour practice instead of the usual 1.5 hour practice) - in an attempt to either try and get us in shape or simply have a chuckle or help us justify eating that extra piece of fruitcake.
Does anyone have any crazy/ insanely long and challenging set they would like to share?
I'll start. We had sort of a post thanksgiving distance free set that we just did:
100 FR @ 1:15
200 FR @ 2:30
300 FR @ 3:45
400 FR @ 5:00
500 FR @ 6:15
Three times through. All on 1:15 pace. (Goal is to do eventually make at 1:10 pace).
Total yardage is 4500 for the set.
Has anyone done the 100x100s? And at what pace? I'm sort of interested in trying that.
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I dont remember much of the details, but I remember some American U swimmers back 10 years ago would talk about their 50 50's of fly...
5 sets of 10 or something like that... dont remember what the interval was; probably something like :60 cause they knew it was tough, but there were apparently trash cans at each end of the lanes...
There's this guy Chris on our master team who would love this set. He's training for the 200 fly right now and always looking for a way to swim more of it in practice. We may have to try and do it. And I'll be sure to include the buckets at the end of the pool - thanks for the warning on that!! :60 sounds plenty fast to me! And NO FINS!
I dont remember much of the details, but I remember some American U swimmers back 10 years ago would talk about their 50 50's of fly...
5 sets of 10 or something like that... dont remember what the interval was; probably something like :60 cause they knew it was tough, but there were apparently trash cans at each end of the lanes...
There's this guy Chris on our master team who would love this set. He's training for the 200 fly right now and always looking for a way to swim more of it in practice. We may have to try and do it. And I'll be sure to include the buckets at the end of the pool - thanks for the warning on that!! :60 sounds plenty fast to me! And NO FINS!
