Saturday, January 3, 2009

010209 - Swim

Had a really good swim on Friday morning and used a great christmas gift in the pool.  My wife bought me a book called:  Workouts in a Binder...Swim Workouts for Triathletes, and I know after today that it will be put to good use.  I picked Endurance Workout 1 from the book and hit the pool at around 9 AM.  Here is what I did:

200 warm up
2 x 200 with 50 yd swim, 100 yd kick and 50 yd swim with 20 second rest.
Then I did 400, 300, 200, 100 with 20 seconds rest in between each
300, 200, 100 with 25 seconds rest trying to swim a negative split 
200 Fast with 30 second rest after
100 Fast with 30 seconds rest after
2x 150 with the pullbouy with 20 seconds rest.

I was psyched to get in 2800 yds in the 1 hour time allotted.  I felt really good and it was good to get back in the water after all of the holiday pool closures.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is an OK workout...whenever you see kicking, though, ignore it...make sure that you are monitoring all your HR information on all sets. Remember, with only 3 hrs or so per week in the pool, 80% of your time should be at 80-85% of your max HR...remember to put your finger on your carotid artery, watch the clock for 10 6 seconds and multiply times 10 to get your HR...your 6 second number should be at least 15...