Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Speed work

Just got out of the pool.  I'm making myself some late dinner.  Feeling general malaise most of the time.  I am finding that instead of "focusing" on work or training, it's easier and more efficient to just go through the motions and not think about any of it.  When I'm at work I think about the tiniest thing that I'm doing.  Am I sitting well in my chair?  I am cutting this 20 second clip.  Is it time to eat lunch?  Did I hydrate today?  What is happening or needs to happen right now?  When I'm training I open up my calendar and think only about the individual steps I have to take for that one segment of training.  I don't think about anything but where my arm is during my pull or whether my foot is slightly flexed through the spin or if my ass is engaged while I run... am I leaning forward?

This is all I think about.

And apparently, all I can think about when I'm at meeting is bits and pieces of Bach's B Minor Mass on subtle repeat. 

So today I thought about this:

WU: 200 mixed, 200 drills, 200 kicks (50 left, 50 right, 50 forward and 50 on your back) - total 600
MS: 5 x 100 on 2:15, rest 1-2mins, 5 x 50 on 1:05 - total 750
CD: 400 easy swimming and drills
Total 1750

Warm up was good.  I did a lot of drills and the kick set was good-ish.  I hate my legs in the pool.  Perhaps one day we'll get along, but for now we just miscommunicate and whine at each other.

Main set was very good.


5x100 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5
Lap 1 55.55 58.92 58.56 57.87 54.92
Lap 2 62.38 60.67 60.35 61.29 61.25
Recover 16.83 15.55 16.47 15.14 19.38
-on 2:15







5x50 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5
Lap 1 49.43 53.89 55.34 54.68 54.17
Recover 17.51 11.13 9.96 8.85 8.99
-on 1:05





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