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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If swimming a mile of backstroke is easier for you ,go do it. I remember when I first started back that even freestyle breathing was a little off and the breastroke kick felt weird. Good luck.
m'Lady,
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!
It reminds me of a line I heard in a movie - For everyone, no matter how experienced, there is always a chili that is just too hot.
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.
Originally posted by Philip Arcuni
Every February our team piles on the milage....Here is the sad part: A fellow went to *three* workouts, and swam 12,500 yards of backstroke!
Wow,
I wonder who that could have been:p
Originally posted by Phil Arcuni
I've said our team was big - it is obviously *too* big.
There is just no privacy for a frequent poster.
Welcome Peter, see you on Saturday!
Thanks Phil:D
Just surfed on in from work yesterday, been boring lately. I saw some of your posts and figured the water must be OK here if you have already dove in...
See you tomorrow. Any requests for dessert?
