Dear All,
Thanksgiving swim activities of forum participants showed big determination on the part of many, big yardage, and maybe a dash of refuge seeking. Swimming over end-of-year holidays has a completely different rhythm: holiday/family obligations are greater, taking time from swimming, but there is also the wonderful, once-a-year New Year's swim, different for every coach and club.
Any big achievements over this period? Bananas? How did you manage migrating pool schedules? What is planned/did occur for New Year's swim?
Regards,
VB
Thanks Geek and Bill.
Tennessee Tumble
Swim freestyle but anytime you are inside the flags area you dive down, swim free underwater, do a flip turn fully submerged, and push off past the flags all while underwater. It's a bit of a lungbuster until you get used to it.
Interesting...we call that a Texas Tumble.
We call it a Texas Tumble too ...
Way to go (S)he-Man! What an awesome 200 fly!
For me, unlike Thanksgiving, the holidays were a swimming disaster. Got sick xmas eve and stayed that way for a good 10 days with no swimming. Went swimming today. After 2 weeks of taper and 2 weeks of sickness, absolutely no strength or endurance left. Blech. Only further cements my hatred of tapering!
(Kristina: I do see a chiro. But only about 2x a month unless the shoulder's bad. It's impossible to resist the massive bacteria and viruses from children.)
Great job Kristina. :groovy:
I did sets like that short course last week and I had to add fins to keep up with the kids. Actually it was more like trying not to get lapped by the kids.
You go girl!! :woot::cheerleader:
That set is NOT for the faint of heart - fins or not!! Yea. Getting lapped is an experience. But if you can hang in there, keep your focus, and gut it out mentally and finish the set (even if you still get lapped), you are a winner in my mind. :notworthy:
Thanks Geek and Bill.
Tennessee Tumble
Swim freestyle but anytime you are inside the flags area you dive down, swim free underwater, do a flip turn fully submerged, and push off past the flags all while underwater. It's a bit of a lungbuster until you get used to it.
Interesting...we call that a Texas Tumble.
My holiday swimming definitely wasn't ideal. First off, the week before Christmas the pool I usually swim in started to get cold. Apparently the filter and heat were turned off so maintenance could be donw. We contined to have workout until Thursday the 20th, but by then I'd say the temp was down to about 70. You definitely didn't want to stand around too long! After that my team was off until yesterday. At least that was the plan. I got an email yesterday that the pool is still down for repairs. I really hope they get it fixed soon! The pool was built in 1938 and maintenance seems to be an increasing issue. Anyway, I've gotten in a decent amount, but definitely less than usual. The last couple weeks I've managed about 15K yards per week whereas I usually shoot for 20K. The overall intensity has been down, too.
Our New Years swim was 10,000 yds. Took just shy of 3.5 hrs.
1000 swim
300 kick
200 pull
500 drill - my lane did IM
6 x 500 1-3 8:00
4-6 7:45
10 x 100 kicks 2:00
20 x 100 swim 1-4 1:45
5-8 1:40
9-12 1:35
13-20 1:30 The other lane did the 16-20 on 1:25
5 x 200 swim 3:00
10 x 50 swim 1:00 desc. 1-5 / 6-10
500 cool down
OH.....MY........GOD..........
I can not IMAGINE surviving that workout. Just the 6 500s would kill me.
Paul
