Program Survey

I swam a variant of this yesterday, although it sucked because the pool was packed and I had to share a wall lane with a changing lineup of 3 different eh... very casual swimmer types... you know what I mean. Not quite floaters, but definitely not conducive to fast swimming. I didn't remember all the rules about how high the interval was supposed to go so I just did from :20 up to whenever. Originally I intended to swim it all IM, going free-fly-***-back in each distance, but I quickly gave up on that when I saw how crowded it was. (need to get my ass out of bed early!) I ended up swimming 25s AFAP until :45, then 50s AFAP until 1:40, followed by 1 100 AFAP which was definitely NOT anywhere near my best 100 time. In fact it was so far from said time that it demotivated me and I quit the set after 2 or 3 more 100s. I think I stopped at 2:05 or 2:10. How high was the interval supposed to go? The rest of my workout was almost all Fly, which I've been working on a lot lately. I don't know if that affected my performance or not. All I know is that I enjoyed swimming the fly and hated the increasing intervals set. I think I would have liked the "whistle" set better if it were done with a group.

I swam a variant of this yesterday, although it sucked because the pool was packed and I had to share a wall lane with a changing lineup of 3 different eh... very casual swimmer types... you know what I mean. Not quite floaters, but definitely not conducive to fast swimming. I didn't remember all the rules about how high the interval was supposed to go so I just did from :20 up to whenever. Originally I intended to swim it all IM, going free-fly-***-back in each distance, but I quickly gave up on that when I saw how crowded it was. (need to get my ass out of bed early!) I ended up swimming 25s AFAP until :45, then 50s AFAP until 1:40, followed by 1 100 AFAP which was definitely NOT anywhere near my best 100 time. In fact it was so far from said time that it demotivated me and I quit the set after 2 or 3 more 100s. I think I stopped at 2:05 or 2:10. How high was the interval supposed to go? The rest of my workout was almost all Fly, which I've been working on a lot lately. I don't know if that affected my performance or not. All I know is that I enjoyed swimming the fly and hated the increasing intervals set. I think I would have liked the "whistle" set better if it were done with a group.