Every February our team piles on the milage. This 'garbage yardage' is probably the most popular event on the team, as everyone gets into an endorphin high. So much for training for speed or lactic-acid tolerance :( .
Anyway, our coach decided to make things more fun by declaring yesterday as 'who can do the most backstroke' day. Instead of being my usual cynical self, I decided to get in the spirit, and took over a half lane at the side of the pool:
All backstroke, all on a 1:20 per hundred interval pace:
500 warmup
100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100
5x100 ("fast")
500 warmdown
5000 yards total
Very boring, lots of endorphins, but I am a bit sore. I was pretty pleased with the backstroke yardage accomplished in a little over one hour.
Here is the sad part: A fellow went to *three* workouts, and swam 12,500 yards of backstroke!
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Well, that is over. 6200 yards of fly yesterday, in sets of distances ranging from 25 yards to 300 yards. Here is the workout that the rest of the team did:
300 free
50 fly * (25 one arm, 25 regular)
250 free
50 fly *
200 free
50 fly *
150 free
50 fly *
3 x (4x25 underwater kick, 4x25 4 kick fly, 50 hard fly, 50 back fly kick)
3 x 200 fly, build each 50 of the 200 (easy first fifty, hard last fifty), with fins.
total: 2600
I did fly instead of free, and no fins, and I did the workout twice. I added some fly warmup and some fly cooldowns. Until about 10:00 last night I thought it was pretty easy. Now I know it wasn't, and I am taking the day off from swimming :(
I will make some comments about distance fly in another more appropriate thread, later.
Well, that is over. 6200 yards of fly yesterday, in sets of distances ranging from 25 yards to 300 yards. Here is the workout that the rest of the team did:
300 free
50 fly * (25 one arm, 25 regular)
250 free
50 fly *
200 free
50 fly *
150 free
50 fly *
3 x (4x25 underwater kick, 4x25 4 kick fly, 50 hard fly, 50 back fly kick)
3 x 200 fly, build each 50 of the 200 (easy first fifty, hard last fifty), with fins.
total: 2600
I did fly instead of free, and no fins, and I did the workout twice. I added some fly warmup and some fly cooldowns. Until about 10:00 last night I thought it was pretty easy. Now I know it wasn't, and I am taking the day off from swimming :(
I will make some comments about distance fly in another more appropriate thread, later.
