So we have a "swim rant" thread, but I wanted to post my "swim happy" moment today, probably brought on by being out of the water for over a week.
Pool reopened after maintenance + clear, fresh perfect temp water + 6 lap lanes between 4 lap swimmers = 4200yd :bliss:
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Woohoo :banana: .When your leg is OK work on your butterfrog and make the 200 fly your 4th event!
That's what got me in trouble in the first place! :worms: My coach was teaching me butterfrog and I ended up putting in too much repetitive frog time. Between my breaststroke, breaststroke kick drills, and butterfrog, my muscles got too fatigued, I believe.
The silver lining of this repetitive injury is the yardage I have been able to put in, instead, doing breaststroke pull with dolphin kick. It doesn't seem to bother the muscles I strained and it has allowed me to continue working on my pull and strengthen my dolphin kick. Today, after my 400IM, I did some 200's with a rest interval of :20, and mixed in 2-200's of that drill with no resulting fatigue problems at all.
So, my other future goal is to be able to swim a legal 200 butterFLY, rather than butterFROG. :agree:
Somehow, in this twisted mind of mine, I seem to think that if I can swim an event more challenging and painful than 200 breaststroke, it will make the 200 breaststroke seem easy in comparison! :banana: There is a part of me that wants to take a page out of Fort's book and chuck it all for 50's and perhaps one or two 100's. But, there is another side of me that loves, loves, LOVES that feeling of satisfaction I get after I swim the 200 breaststroke. :ohyeah: Even though it's my worst event (even my 50 free, 100 IM, 100 free and 50 back rank higher in the standings, in comparison), I just keep wanting to go back to it. And, now, I am crazy enough to try the 400 IM, and, hopefully, the 200 fly. :afraid:
K.F., you're a psychiatrist. Am I crazy or what? :rolleyes:
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Woohoo :banana: .When your leg is OK work on your butterfrog and make the 200 fly your 4th event!
That's what got me in trouble in the first place! :worms: My coach was teaching me butterfrog and I ended up putting in too much repetitive frog time. Between my breaststroke, breaststroke kick drills, and butterfrog, my muscles got too fatigued, I believe.
The silver lining of this repetitive injury is the yardage I have been able to put in, instead, doing breaststroke pull with dolphin kick. It doesn't seem to bother the muscles I strained and it has allowed me to continue working on my pull and strengthen my dolphin kick. Today, after my 400IM, I did some 200's with a rest interval of :20, and mixed in 2-200's of that drill with no resulting fatigue problems at all.
So, my other future goal is to be able to swim a legal 200 butterFLY, rather than butterFROG. :agree:
Somehow, in this twisted mind of mine, I seem to think that if I can swim an event more challenging and painful than 200 breaststroke, it will make the 200 breaststroke seem easy in comparison! :banana: There is a part of me that wants to take a page out of Fort's book and chuck it all for 50's and perhaps one or two 100's. But, there is another side of me that loves, loves, LOVES that feeling of satisfaction I get after I swim the 200 breaststroke. :ohyeah: Even though it's my worst event (even my 50 free, 100 IM, 100 free and 50 back rank higher in the standings, in comparison), I just keep wanting to go back to it. And, now, I am crazy enough to try the 400 IM, and, hopefully, the 200 fly. :afraid:
K.F., you're a psychiatrist. Am I crazy or what? :rolleyes:
