by marciadmin | May 16, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
As ever, Coach Bill gives us challenging sets. Rather than kick those last 100s, I swam backstroke as I knew I’d be riding 20 miles after the workout with my husband. I was right. We rode down to El Porto, had some lunch, and came home. Bill was trying to get me into...
by marciadmin | May 14, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
I posted this a day late due to having editing deadlines. It was a good workout, and different. As you can see, I alternated backstroke technique and freestyle technique. The drills I used in the warmup set are the same ones I used in the main set, except I did the...
by marciadmin | May 12, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
When I need to just chill and swim, this main set is one of my favorites. It’s all about pacing and relaxing into the stroke and just swimming, which was exactly what I needed to do today. Other than making the intervals, there was no pressure to push hard or sprint....
by marciadmin | May 11, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
Tuesdays are the “fun” workout day. They’re the days I do some wild and fun sets. Usually, I limit it to the warmup set, but, today, I extended it through the workout. And it was fun. Then putting the sprint at the end put it over the top. Today was...
by marciadmin | May 11, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
My favorite stroke day of the month. When we compete again, I’ll be swimming backstroke. I’m looking forward to it. I did swim Sunday with SCAQ. Coach Bill Bean gave us a tough set, but I waited too long to upload it and forgot the rest of the workout. Ah,...
