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Good yardage this morning. I’m back to “distance Mondays”, my day of the week to crank out some longer-than-usual sets in the pool. For instance, today’s focus was on a couple 400 yd freestyle...
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Didn’t feel as good as yesterday. Felt a little tight and times weren’t stellar. Lots of yards though.da numbers: 2 x 100 yd free/zipperswitch 5 x 200 yd free @ 4:00 coming in between 3:00 – 2:55 4 x...
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I’ve been doing IM sets with 50yd for each stroke. Today I increased that to 100yd. And it was hard. My strokes are coming together though. Butterfly is even kinda working. After the IM sets I did tons...
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I’ve learned to be more intuitive about my workouts. That’s the nice thing about not being on a team. If there’s something I don’t want to do, I might choose not to do it. Like today. My ambitious...
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Good times at the Carpenteria Community Pool. I don’t know what it is about that pool exactly that makes me really like swimming there. My main set was 10 x 100yd on 1:50. This is faster than I’ve been...
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IM is hard. Finishing this morning’s requisite yardage was hard. Not a super motivating day in the pool. But I did some butterfly for 100yd distances. Well, kinda. I pulled once for every 3 kicks and I...
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Note to self: if you need to wake up at 6:00 AM to swim, go to bed before 2:00 AM. This morning totally sucked. I was mega-slow and generally felt like road kill. And this week’s daily yardage is...
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I know my workouts are getting long when I dread having to type it out.da numbers: 2 x 100yd free 4 x 200yd free @ 4:00 coming in between 2:47 – 2:55 300yd fly kick 3 x 100 IM @ 3:00 coming in between...
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Today was hard.da numbers: 2 x 100yd free 10 x 100yd free @ 2:00 coming in between 1:20 – 1:25 300yd fly kick 3 x 100yd IM @ 3:00 coming in between 1:40 – 1:50 4 x 100yd pull w/ paddles @ 2:00 coming...
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Felt good this morning. Finally. This week has been alternating days of good and bad. IMs had me breathing like a maniac but I stayed loose and kept good form; good for me, anyway. Even butterfly is...
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