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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Originally posted by Phil Arcuni
What an old thread! Anyway, it was joke, and alluded to that while I did a workout that I was pretty proud of, it was not enough - and could never be enough. I mean, some of us have jobs!
Ahh, okay. I was thinking maybe people hated backstroke or something. FOr me, just returning to swimming, it's the only way I can swim very far. I did a mile backstroking, and nearly died doing a length of freestyle, or so it felt like. ::chuckles::
Originally posted by Phil Arcuni
What an old thread! Anyway, it was joke, and alluded to that while I did a workout that I was pretty proud of, it was not enough - and could never be enough. I mean, some of us have jobs!
Ahh, okay. I was thinking maybe people hated backstroke or something. FOr me, just returning to swimming, it's the only way I can swim very far. I did a mile backstroking, and nearly died doing a length of freestyle, or so it felt like. ::chuckles::
