doug in co wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
I apologize for not participating much in this thread. October has literally been the culmination of perhaps the most miserable year of my life. This month I closed down our office and gave everyone their termination letters and then gave myself my own and before and after that I have been going nuts investor/venture capitalist meetings to try to get a new startup off the ground. I keep telling myself that everything has to come down before new opportunities can be born, so I am trying to keep a glass half full perspective on life, and the pool has been my saviour.
Dev, I am sorry for the hard times.. good luck with the startup, the VCs are nuts if they don't see how hard you can work..
only swimming the past six weeks, tore a calf muscle and it is not healing, won't even let me ride the bike.
Interestingly swimming 4x a week instead of once, times drop for about 4 weeks then stabilize at a new normal. So to get faster I guess I'll need more than 7-8000 yards/wk..
anyway did 4x400IM scy as 7:14,7:11,7:02,7:03 the last two are my fastest ever. Hm. 6:30 seems a good tough goal for one 400IM..
100scy is down to 1:04 with a push. I need to sneak in sometime when the lifeguards aren't watching so I can use the start blocks and try for sub-1..
First of all congrats on your 400 IM...that is awesome!!! And your times relate to my next workout, the tie into VC's and a meeting with a business partner who is pre seed financing wanting me to join him as co founder in his startup, while I try to get seed financing for mine LOL......so here goes. It is Oct 27th which means it is my 52nd birthday on Friday. As of Kona weekend, I had logged 1000 km for the year in swim (did it on Sunday after Kona....so that was kind of my "finish line"). So as mentioned last bit was quite busy trying to sort out my life.
Friday was meetings with business partners on the sales and engineering side trying to round out a potential team and then my "old CEO" calls a conf call of "ex leaders" to tell us how hard he is working in China and that he's gonna make it and raise money, pay everyone back, clear liabilities, restart work etc etc (where did I hear that promise before). So as you can imagine this conf call is going longer and longer and its starting to cut into the window for my birthday set, which of course needs to be something that is 5200m.
So I finally get to the pool with 1:42 remaining from when I entered to my next meeting (fortunately the office I am using is 2 min away from the pool LOL). OK, the quick math is that 5200 as 13x400m is leaving on 7 minutes if you want to get done in 1:31. While it would be cool to do 13x400m IM on my birthday since I spent the year learning all strokes better I settled on 13x400m with at least 100m inside each 400m as fly and the rest could be whatever I wanted...The fly I could break up as the 25 at the top of each 400, 50m at the top of each 200m or 100m in one shot at the top of each 400m....whatever. Honestly there was not a ton of breast and back....I was on such a tight schedule, that most of the 400's there was zero lengths of each or 1-2 max....never 4....I'll build up to that for next year.
The problem was that this 7 min send of was quite aggressive for me and I literally only had 5-15 seconds to "rest" before heading back out knowing that the total workout would probably end up more like 1:33-1:35 and I would be late for my next meeting, but what the heck you only live once and swimming is all I have and being a few minutes late was not going to be the end of the world.
So I got it done. AnnaS....the last 400m was 4x(50-50) fly-free because on my first 400m when I entered the water, I did not do any fly so i had to catch up 100m worth of fly at the end to make it to 52 lengths of fly in the workout. What was hard was not so much the pull, but actually getting my arms up and over for some of the last fly legs. Total workout was 1:33 total workout time including a 100m "cool down" before doing my fastest change and shower ever and likely breaking every traffic law possible during the short 2 min drive back to the office!
Next year, I guess the set to aim for is 13x400m IM plus 1x100m IM. But I am going to take a half day off work (maybe I am the boss of my own starving startup company by then anyway, let's see) and have a solid 2 hours to do that with appropriate rest and a nice long sauna afterwards.
By the time I got to may birthday party, I was totally fried from marathon biz meetings and only eating half a sandwich and half a salad all day (I did the workout with no nutrition because I got distracted finishing off the aforementioned conf call with ex CEO)....layer on that, 5300m of essentially 25%fly-65%free-10% other and I only revived myself after eating the birthday cake LOL.
