This morning was our first swim the other coach of the swim group, Tereza Macel. I don't really know her coaching background, but it's pretty easy to find her triathlon background: won Ironman Korea and the Muskoka Chase in the last few years, and just finished 5th at IM Western Australia. So yeah, she's kind of fast.
The workout was a big departure from the rest of our training. I don't know if this was on purpose, or if there isn't much communication between the coaches. I'm not saying it was a bad workout, but given that we're supposed to be in the middle of a "volume" block, it seemed out of place.
After a standard warm-up, we went back to some drill work. This was followed with some longer sets, mixing fast efforts into each set. These were fun, but tough. Then we did some more flip turn practice, and finished with a large block of hypoxic breathing sets. I have some understanding of how these might be useful (you're definitely forced to take huge breaths if you only get one every 7 strokes). Then we cooled down. As I said, it seems like a good workout. I am definitely tired, but I don't see how this fits into the larger picture. The model seems to be a block periodization scheme, versus a conjugate periodization scheme, so I don't know.
But I'll keep going back, and doing what I'm told, since just about anything is going to make me faster.
Swim: w/u 200 free, 100 kick, 100 pull, 200 free
2x50, 30" pull
2x50, 30" free
2x50, 30" pull (ankles)
2x50, 30" free
4x150, 15" as:
1) 50 fast/100 ez
2) 50 ez/50 fast/50 ez
3) 100 ez/50 fast
4) 75 ez/50 fast/25 ez
4x50, 20" hypoxic breathing: 3, 4, 5, 7 strokes per breath
25m in 10 (9) breaths (first number is target, second is what I did)
50m in 9 (9) breaths
75m in 8 (15) breaths
100m in 7 (lots) breaths
c/d: 2x25 free/25 breast/25 free/25 back
200 free
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