Due to the holiday and some pool closures, this, our last week of swimming, was reduced to one day. This weekend marks pretty much the end of the local racing season, with Muskoka 70.3, and a few people off at IM Wisconsin. This also marks the end of the work with my present swim coach, who's leaving for other opportunities. I'll admit that it makes me a little sad to have it all come to end. I've progressed a bunch in the last two years, and no small part of that has been the coaching I've gotten. I'll still have training chances next year, and perhaps a new coach will bring me even further along, but that doesn't mean I can't look at the last two seasons and be sad it's ending.
Since everybody left is racing, the workout was pretty short, with a few uptempo chances. Since he's racing this weekend, even the coach decided to break protocol and join the workout. And in doing so, he joined my lane. I was leading, by virtue of being the only one not toeing the line, so the pressure was on to keep the workout quick. At one point, I almost lapped the coach, but that was probably because I was using paddles and pull buoy, and he was just doing freestyle, but hey, every victory counts, right?
The workout ended earlier than I would have liked, so I said my thanks to the coach and goodbyes to the other swimmers, and now I get about six weeks of rest. I wonder how I'll swim when I get back in the pool inn November.
Swim: w/u - 200yds each free, non-free, pull
2x(100 free, HIM pace, 30"
100 free, ez, 30")
3x200 pull w/paddles, 30"
5x100 as 25 back/25 breast/50 free, 15"
4x25 sprint on 1'
c/d - 2x(50 non-free/50 pull/50 free)
Total: 2500yds
Run: 3 miles @ 7.5 mph, w/1 mile @ 8.5 mph
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