Monday, September 8, 2008

The penultimate swim

What am I going to do with myself for a few months while there's no swim group? Who knows, but there's no time to worry about that now, because we've still got some swimming left to do. With really only a bunch of 70.3'ers left, that's the focus on the training. Everyone else has to deal with our prep (like me suffering through the 3.8km tests). Always a nice thing to see on the board: About halfway down, the phrase "70.3 racers get out". It's always right before the sprint sets. :)

A nice race-pace workout this morning. We're really trying to put this in a groove. Since I have no run or bike work scheduled for this afternoon, I passed on the pull buoy and did freestyle the whole way. I was happy I kept a 1:50/100 pace for each of the intervals. Not that I need to start planning on a much faster swim pace all of a sudden, but a little confidence never hurt anyone.

Swim: w/u - 200m each free, non-free, pull
3x(500 free, HIM pace, 1'
100 non-free, 1')
Total: 2400m

1 comment:

Mark said...

You'd think that long, steady pace, swims would be boring. And they are... but not necessarily in a bad way. It's not as much fun as an 'L' run, because there isn't any scenery to look at, but there is still something refreshing about just setting yourself on autopilot and hammering out the work without any suffering.

Keep coddling that foot. I'm looking forward to reading that it's 100% better.