El Segundo is open after being closed for Junior Olympic Water Polo. While I like swimming at my local pool, El Segundo gives us 60 minutes and it’s earlier in the day by an hour. Weekends are family time, so earlier doesn’t interfere as much with that. I was a little slow this morning. Perhaps because I skipped breakfast before going? We’ll go with that. (LOL) I wanted to swim like Ledecky, Weitzel, Dressel, and Finke, to name a few—they are so amazing. Alas, I’m a bit more mature than they are (grin), significantly shorter, and, let’s face it, not as fast. The only common denominator I have with the Olympic swimmers is that I love swimming, too, and that, my friends, is the most important one. 🙂
As those who stop by here frequently know, I don’t really kick. So, all kick for me is backstroke. I attempted to mimic the underwater dolphin kick of Dressel. That’s going to take some work. Okay, a lot of work. I might have looked more like a dying inchworm, though. LOL
You’ll see a lot of ? for length of time it took to do the sets because, without the intervals, it’s hard to keep track.
Anyway, adjust, adjust, adjust, and swim.
60-minute swim workout, SCAQ Sunday
400 warmup (~7 min)
Warmup set (600 yds, 10:40 min)
8 x 75 on 1:20
Odds: 25 swim/25 underwater dolphin kick as far as you can go then kick/25 swim
Evens: flip odds 25 kick-25 swim-25 kick
Main set (2000 yds, ? min)
Set 1 (500 yds, ? Min)
Pyramid 1
Alt swim/kick with :10 rest
25 kick/50 swim/75/100/100/75/50/25
Pyramid 2 (1000 yds, 21 min)
50 on :45
100 on 1:30
150 on 2:15
200 on 3:00
200 on 3:00
150 on 2:15
100 on 1:30
50 on :45
Pyramid 3 (500 yds, ? min)
Same as pyramid 1, except alt fast/easy swims
150 warm down
Total yards: 3150
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