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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i remember one session when i was about 12 when my coach gave us a short warm up and then said the rest of the session was: swim as much fly as you can, then as much back, then brest, then frontcrawl. i think the session was an hour and a half long. anyway, an hour later i was still on fly when the rest of the pool were already on to brest! and i was loving it!! i wish i could still do that - doing four lengths in a row is as far as i've managed so far.
i remember one session when i was about 12 when my coach gave us a short warm up and then said the rest of the session was: swim as much fly as you can, then as much back, then brest, then frontcrawl. i think the session was an hour and a half long. anyway, an hour later i was still on fly when the rest of the pool were already on to brest! and i was loving it!! i wish i could still do that - doing four lengths in a row is as far as i've managed so far.
