15 August 2008
Friday Swim - Like the olympics! …with fins:)
Posted by Cheeseball under: Swim.
I used my fins for the first time for a swim work out. (I had them for bodyboarding) Wow, I can go really fast with them! lol …I felt like I was cheating, although I did feel more force on my thighs. Another woman swimmer in my lane was going faster than me without fins, and the other older guy in the same lane was going as fast as I was by just strong kicks with fins, no arms. Wow. Lots of practice can do that to you. They were fun to swim with too:)
Maybe because of the Olympics, but there were so many swimmers out tonight at the workout. We took ALL lanes in the pool with 24 swimmers. It was a lot of fun! Our coach made fun of us for not being out on dates on a Friday night. Haha, very funny.
1) 3 x 50 warm up
2) 2 x 25 kick
3) 3 x 50 kick on 1:00
4) 3 x 100 on 1:40
It was on 2:00 at the beginning, but our lane was making a good time (because of the fins for me) that the coach shortened the interval time to 1:40.
5) 2 x 25 breath control (no breathing)
- Easy 50 -
6) 5 x 100 on 1:40
- Easy 50 -
7) 6 x 25 breath control on 1:00 (0-1 breathing)
“Relax so the breath lasts” - Ya, if I relax and go too slow, I’d have to take more breaths!
- 25 to the other side of the pool -
8 ) 1 x 25 ALL OUT
9) 1 x 50 ALL OUT
It’s like the Olympics! Woohoo00:D
- 1 x 50 breaststroke -
Just strolled by myself before I got out of the pool. After wearing the fins for an hour, swimming with no fins felt really weird. I felt naked and slow.
I watched Michael Phelps win by .01 seconds just now. OMG that was so close, and such a good race! What an amazing athlete. Dara Torres just won the heat for tomorrow’s 50m freestyle final. Wow. Just wow. She’s my new heroin and the uber-ultimate inspiration:)
Workout:
- Type: Swim
- Date: 08/15/2008
- Time: 18:30:00
- Total Time: 1:00:00.00
- Distance: 1,700 yd
- Average Pace: 3:30.87/100yd
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