Wednesday Morning Brrrr.....

A cold snap is hitting Los Angeles right now and it's only going to get colder over the next few days. Then when the cold snap is at it's worst the rain will be coming down. This weather will be a factor in how much I'll be swimming next week. A mini-vacation may be in order and just in time. After last weekend's swim meet my body needs some time off. Swimming the last three days of workouts after the meet has left my body fatigued. I already plan on taking Thursday and Saturday off this week and next week I'll play it by ear.

This morning it was tough taking of my warmup clothes to get in the pool. While on deck I looked at the main set from last nights practice. It was an interesting set so I jotted it down thinking I'd use that set for myself.

Here was the set: Descending in each group of 4
4x200's Freestyle on 2:30 / last one fast but on 4:00 (the slower fast lane was 2:40/4:00)
4x150's Freestyle on 1:55 / last one fast but on 3:00 (the slower fast lane was 2:00/3:00)
4x100's Freestyle on 1:15/ last one fast but on 2:00 (the slower fast lane was 1:20/2:00)
4x50's Freestyle on 40

After jotting it down and chatting with team mates it was time to get in. Brrr...when I did get into the pool for once I was happy that the water was hot. Normally I'd be the first bitching about how hot it was but it felt great to be in the warm water. Plus I didn't plan on swimming too hard today so the temp was not a factor. I mentioned to the coach on deck that I liked the workout that they did the night before so the coach decided that we'd do the set this morning. Me and my big mouth.

As for warm up I swam a 100 free before doing a 200 IM by 25 kick / 25 drill. We then broke up between stroke lanes and freestyle lanes. I decided to do stroke since if I had swam free I'd be lapping whomever I'd swim with. I figured doing stroke would even it out a bit. We did two extended warm up 400's . The first one was mostly kick 100 kick / 50 swim / 100 kick / 50 drill / 100 kick. I did it fly for the first 150, back for the second 150 and did the final 100 kick IM. The second one I did IM and it was 25 Drill / 75 Swim (25 technique / 25 build / 25 fast).

Main Set: Descending in each group of 4
4x200's IM on 3:30 / last one fast but on 4:15 (I messed up and did the last one on 3:15) opps!
4x150's Back on 2:20 / last one fast but on 3:00's I think
4x100's IM on 1:45 / last one fast but we did it on 2:30
4x50's Butterfly on 50

Oy! I was dying in butterfly! We then finished up with a few 25's before warming down. The set looked fun freestyle as for IM not as much. I had too much rest but that was okay. It's still a recovery week for swimming.