I'm always interested to hear what people do for their New Year's Day specials or Twelve Days of Christmas swims, either by themselves or with a team. Fort has a beaut on her blog. Any others?
:banana:
After I finish killing myself in the Gray Sharks' 100 x 100 (or 75, or 50) fun swim, I am going to circus school, where I will get to wear spangly tights and hang by my heels.
:bliss:
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Our 12 Days of Christmas workout was also not very extreme:
1 x 25: swum as A
1 x 50: swum as A,B by 25
...
1 x 300: swum as A,B,C,... by 25
each lap (A, B, etc) was a different stroke/drill/speed/whatever. The choice of what to do for each new segment was made by a different swimmer, with some encouragement to choose unusual drills, strokes, etc. (I.e. sidestroke, corkscrew, dolphin dives.)
It's only 1950 yards, so more like a set than a workout. It's also as much of a mental workout as a physical one, remembering which lap comes next. We then did the pyramid a second time through, in reverse.
We did the 100 x 100 workout as a Thanksgiving workout, rather than a New Year's workout.
Our 12 Days of Christmas workout was also not very extreme:
1 x 25: swum as A
1 x 50: swum as A,B by 25
...
1 x 300: swum as A,B,C,... by 25
each lap (A, B, etc) was a different stroke/drill/speed/whatever. The choice of what to do for each new segment was made by a different swimmer, with some encouragement to choose unusual drills, strokes, etc. (I.e. sidestroke, corkscrew, dolphin dives.)
It's only 1950 yards, so more like a set than a workout. It's also as much of a mental workout as a physical one, remembering which lap comes next. We then did the pyramid a second time through, in reverse.
We did the 100 x 100 workout as a Thanksgiving workout, rather than a New Year's workout.
