First Lactic / Dive set of this season + my list of excuses:
List of excuses:
- Lifting Heavy which just kills my swimming
- First time in 2 1/2 month going off the blocks
- Sunday early in the morning is not an ideal time to swim fast - it's pretty much the first workout before noon all season.
- no fast skin - just old skin
- did I mention that the lifting makes me tired
Set = all on 6-7 minutes - yards - from a dive (not a rolling start like Ande)
150 - descend each 50 - 1:22.0
100 - all-out 50.2
100 - all-out 50.2
50 - 23.0
50 - 22.7
Well - my stroke is all over the place, trying to change my turns to add underwaters which did not work at all, I have little to no speed and I am hoping to swim the yards time of today in meters 10 weeks from now.
Nothing like a little reality check ...
- Lifting Heavy which just kills my swimming
...
- did I mention that the lifting makes me tired
I know what you mean...I hate when the coach announces a test set the morning after I lift hard at night.
Sometimes I think a main point of lifting is not to get stronger but just to make us swim through the pain of such sets. "Regular" (ie rested) racing can feel pretty darn easy by comparison.
Good luck.
- Lifting Heavy which just kills my swimming
...
- did I mention that the lifting makes me tired
I know what you mean...I hate when the coach announces a test set the morning after I lift hard at night.
Sometimes I think a main point of lifting is not to get stronger but just to make us swim through the pain of such sets. "Regular" (ie rested) racing can feel pretty darn easy by comparison.
Good luck.
