Blog Talk
Blog Talk is a thread to recoginize, discuss, share, stuff happening in the USMS blogs, here on the general forums. Please point out certain sets, certain swims, & meet performances. Rather than have the blogs languish in obscurity.
Here's a few blogs if you're interested in:
sprinting on low yardage check out The Jazz Hands Brass Band's Fast-Twitch Freak-Out by Jazz Hands
a fast chatty female who often trains alone there's the
The FAF AFAP Digest by The Fortress
a middle distance workhorse, Masters's swimming mag's cover boy, who has a true work ethic and amazing swims in workout there's
Chris' training journal and thoughts by Chris Stevenson
an excellent mid distance traveling exec there's
Of Swimming Bondage by pwbrundage
looks like there's 59 blogs
let's talk about em
start one of your own
keep adding threads, it's a handy resourse where you can look back at previous workouts.
there's the list
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Ande--
My advice: kick the first 100 around a 1:14, pull the next on around 1:02; then integrate kicking and swimming and try to hold 58's for the final two 100s!
Actually, and I feel presumptuous to even offer you advice, but I think you are so in tune with your body and your lactate threshold that you should forget splitting at all and swim by feel. Maybe go out just a wee bit slower than your adrenaline is telling you to, then after a 100 or so, swim hard enough to the point of feeling just below the lactate threshhold. Try to stay here until the last 100 or so, then build up till you touch the wall in full blown wimpering mode, knowing you gave it everything you've got!
Then write a country music song about the experience, changing the 400 m freestyle to a "beautiful little darling that was awful hard to stay up with and left you crying at the end."
No pain, no country music song.
Ande--
My advice: kick the first 100 around a 1:14, pull the next on around 1:02; then integrate kicking and swimming and try to hold 58's for the final two 100s!
Actually, and I feel presumptuous to even offer you advice, but I think you are so in tune with your body and your lactate threshold that you should forget splitting at all and swim by feel. Maybe go out just a wee bit slower than your adrenaline is telling you to, then after a 100 or so, swim hard enough to the point of feeling just below the lactate threshhold. Try to stay here until the last 100 or so, then build up till you touch the wall in full blown wimpering mode, knowing you gave it everything you've got!
Then write a country music song about the experience, changing the 400 m freestyle to a "beautiful little darling that was awful hard to stay up with and left you crying at the end."
No pain, no country music song.
