EZ All Morning

I kind of feel a bit of soreness in the left pec this morning. That is good biofeedback, indicating that I did some training yesterday. It may be of interest that the rest of the left arm is fatigued and sore too. I have been aware of the looseness and popping in the surgically altered right shoulder, but there is not the aggressive soreness as on the left side.

I swam last evening at happy hour. The wind chill was a factor, but the water was very warm. There is also a problem with the ventilation in the Finley locker room. I told the front desk about it this morning. I should record last evening's swim here;
500 free
5x100 back on 2 min, last three-29, 27, 28
250 fly drill, including 50 modified Biondi drill, 2x100 1 arm, no breath/full stroke, breath
5x50 fly, ez/strong
500 choice, including turns, breakouts, mostly free and fly, no clock, various intervals, this is what happy hour is about, relax swim a few rounds, no hurry, hypoxic talking time!

2000 yards
B+


Thsi morning was EZ swim because I am a bit sore from the exercise yesterday.

500 free ez
500 kick on back with fins, alternating
100, 2x200 back
250 breast, dps and spl, wall work but ez pull down, try to lead with navel
4x50 off block, adjusting depth of dive and breakout stroke timing, 1 off side ez
500 fist free
500 lane line assisted backstroke

3000 yards
B

Too Warm? What?

Did I say that? I must have worked out this morning. I felt a bit of the warmth of the fine aquatic environment of Finley Aquatic Center this morning. I did crank it up a bit too. I thought about my options for goal orientation, coached versus self coached, and I will stay with myself and be completely self coached this season.

500 swim
10x50 dolphin kick on back with fins
100 free
4x100 back on 2 min, down to 1:25
5o back@39
100 free ez
9 minutes tread water
50, 100, 100 breast
5x50 breast down to 39
5x25free/25fly on 1 min
5x25free/30-50 fly with turn on 90 sec
100 ez

2650 yards
B+

Stay Wet

It seems like I have not been swimming that much lately, but if I take a look at my complete log of workouts for the past several months, I would see that it is not so, but I feel that I may need some external motivation other than swimming with the group on select days. I am considering the alternative that I had used for my training last spring. That would be going to the Petaluma High School workouts on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. To extrapolate on the possibility, I could swim in Petaluma 25-28 sessions at $5 per session. That is $125-140. Then there is the travel expenses to include and that would be 36 miles per session. That is about equal to 900 miles for the 25 sessions and that is 900 miles, divided by 25 mpg, which brings us to 36 gallons of fuel @ $3.30/gal =$120.00. That, added to the $125 for 25 sessions is $245 for that idea. I can round the cost to $10 per session, and the extra time is non negotiable. This idea appears to be cost ineffective. the other alternative is to join with the Santa Rosa Masters coached workouts for an extra $29 a month more than my monthly pass, which I would need to have if I went to Petaluma. I guess I will talk with the coach, that does seem reasonable.

Saturday I swam at Dolores Bengston Aquatic Center in Pleasanton, but I only swam a 2K.

I went to Ridgway this morning and the pod was splintered and ffairly dispersed. I did my own thing.

1000 choice, all strokes
750 kick on back with fins
250 breaststroke kick
5x100 backstroke, down to 1:23 on 2 minutes
500 free, alternate breathing

3000
B-

Good Friday Swimming

Not much new at the pool this morning. I think I will come back later in the evening for happy hour.

1000 free/back
500 free
1000 kick on back with fins
100 free ez
5x100 free, filler swimming, I forgot what I did for this part
8x50 free on 60 seconds, down to 32

3500 yards
B-

Later in the afternoon I was feeling pretty rough around the edges so I went back to Finley for a therapy swim and it felt really good.

600 swim
3x50 frees no clock, just feel
3x100 fly, ez stretch it out, a bit hard on last laps
3x50 free/fly

1200 yards
B

Recharged

After slugging it out yesterday, I felt like swimming better this morning. I felt yesterday's effort when I started the warm up, and I felt good through the kick set. I tried a different style of alternating kick where I flexed and bent my knees dramatically. It felt good, and it did not have any adverse effects.

500 swim warm up
750 kick on back with fins
250 breast kick
5x100 back, ez
5x100 free ez
5x100 fly, spl 7-8
5x50 fly/free under 40, 60 seconds
5x50 free/fly under 40, 60 seconds

3500 yards
B

I went to happy hour at Finley in the evening and had a nice time. I swam some too, but I watched the divers after I swam about 1500 yards.

1000 free/back
500 back/ breast easy, working on different aspects of the stroke, especially wall and dps during breast

Strange As The Weather

There was nothing wrong with this morning but it just seemed that it was not a good swim day. Evidence abounded around this morning because Ridgway had an electrical problem and morning workout was canceled. This was evidenced because several Ridgway regulars were found in the steaming crab pot of Finley Aquatic Center. They are humorous in their own special way, as they can be very dramatic in showing their disdain for the slightly warmer environs of Finley. they had no organization for their workout and they showed little effort, kind of like who I felt this morning. I did go back for a better swim round 2 hours later.

1000 back/free
1000 kick on back with fins,10 laps breast kick
1000 other
That was the first session of a split workout this morning. I could not get it going. I came back after breakfast to swim better.

500 fly/free
20x25 free on 30 seconds/80%
5x50 fly 45 seconds on 1 minute
5x50 fly/back 45-40 seconds on 1 minute

4500 yards
B

Back Up and Go

The workout this morning was very easy and relaxed. there we not many swimmers at Finley this morning, and I was a bit uninspired and I just kind of dragged myself through the swim until the end and I felt better.

1500 swim
250 kick on back with fins
250 back
1000 swim
8x25 dps ez

3200 yards
B

I swam yesterday, Sunday, with W. S. leading the group with 'oreo' sets. I had to modify so I will subtract 300 yards from the 2400 yard set.

I did not do any warm up on my own.

6x75 swim50/kick25

Main Set
8 300 Yard 'oreo', sandwich rounds
free, back, breast, fly
100swim, 100kick, 100swim
100kick, 100swim, 100kick

500 swim down on my own

3050 yards
B