Paul's swimming blog

31 Jan 2008 SCM with team 400 swim, 200 kick, 150 pull w/u 2x200 Free on 3:15 10x50 IM order on 1:00- 1:10 depending on stroke. I tried Fly/Free for all 10 but I had to switch to free at the end. 100 pull 8x50 Free descend on 1:00 I then tried 3x50 Free trying to work on going as slow as I could. Shoulders were really tight and tired plus my abs were really hurting about an inch to the right of the xyphoid process right at the rib cage line. No matter what I tried it just hurt which made staying long in the water a real challenge. Free style was about the only stroke I could do. Forget backstroke, that REALLY hurt. I also have a real problem with pacing. Towards the end I tried to go a slow 50m free and the slowest that I go was :44 and that was swimming with closed fists. My 'normal' pace on repeat 50s is :35. It's just frustrating especially on a long descend set (say 6-8 reps) when I come in thinking that I've taken it out slow and see that I came in at :39, it's a real pain in the *** to try and hit 7 more reps descending from a :39. I know, I know, it's SUCH a tough problem to have I can you folks say but seriously, it is because it is causing me to spend too much energy in earlier reps and die in later ones. 2300m in about an hour Paul

31 Jan 2008 SCM with team 400 swim, 200 kick, 150 pull w/u 2x200 Free on 3:15 10x50 IM order on 1:00- 1:10 depending on stroke. I tried Fly/Free for all 10 but I had to switch to free at the end. 100 pull 8x50 Free descend on 1:00 I then tried 3x50 Free trying to work on going as slow as I could. Shoulders were really tight and tired plus my abs were really hurting about an inch to the right of the xyphoid process right at the rib cage line. No matter what I tried it just hurt which made staying long in the water a real challenge. Free style was about the only stroke I could do. Forget backstroke, that REALLY hurt. I also have a real problem with pacing. Towards the end I tried to go a slow 50m free and the slowest that I go was :44 and that was swimming with closed fists. My 'normal' pace on repeat 50s is :35. It's just frustrating especially on a long descend set (say 6-8 reps) when I come in thinking that I've taken it out slow and see that I came in at :39, it's a real pain in the *** to try and hit 7 more reps descending from a :39. I know, I know, it's SUCH a tough problem to have I can you folks say but seriously, it is because it is causing me to spend too much energy in earlier reps and die in later ones. 2300m in about an hour Paul