by marciadmin | May 20, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
A different kind of stroke technique focus today. Mixing it throughout the workout does make it more challenging. I don’t know if it was more fatiguing physically or mentally. Either way, I was pushing to hit faster times at the end. Perhaps not the goal. (sigh)...
by marciadmin | May 19, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
I had big plans for today, but, well, they didn’t happen, mainly because halfway through the first 400, my body made it known that I had to go the bathroom. I pushed through it because we’re limited to 50 minutes and I didn’t want to waste any of it....
by marciadmin | May 18, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
It was a beautiful day to swim. Sunny with puffy clouds. I’m sharing a lane still, but it works out. We can make them work. The warm up set was a bit amorphous as far as time goes due to sharing the lane. We can’t have two people on the same wall in the...
by marciadmin | May 17, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
Ah . . . The day of the month I struggle with the most. My breaststroke is so slow it’s on par with my kicking, but I do it anyway. It’s a challenge. Can I beat my last time? Will I get any better? So far, the answer has been no. Maybe next month. There’s always next...
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...
