My season ended prematurely with a pinched nerve. I will be slowly making it back to running, but have the go-ahead to start swimming. I have only been swimming for a couple years, and am still learning the ropes.
I swim mid 1:30s in short course meters fairly consistently during workouts, and in a 750 meter tri leg I swam 1:28/100 meters (short course), but feel that swimming is still one of the hardest legs...or at least improvements and comfort are the hardest gains. I typically swim 3 or 4 times a week and have swum as much as 10 k in a week. I have a fairly extensive background in running and biking, and know really well how to coach myself through the off season in those disciplines, but am a bit lost drawing up my off season for swimming. I've found that biking and running are REALLY easy. Just run some low intensity miles with drills once a week, and hills/strides occasionally. Biking is similar...just time in the saddle and spin classes is enough to set me up to put down top 3 bike splits in most races I've done so far.
Last year I raced XTERRAs and sprints. I may do that again, and may throw in a 70.3, and also may hit a competitive Olympic. What are some break and butter swim sets for the next 6 months. I don't need much variety. If I repeated the same 5 workouts cyclically, I'd be fine as long as I can gradually build them.
What do you do?
I swim mid 1:30s in short course meters fairly consistently during workouts, and in a 750 meter tri leg I swam 1:28/100 meters (short course), but feel that swimming is still one of the hardest legs...or at least improvements and comfort are the hardest gains. I typically swim 3 or 4 times a week and have swum as much as 10 k in a week. I have a fairly extensive background in running and biking, and know really well how to coach myself through the off season in those disciplines, but am a bit lost drawing up my off season for swimming. I've found that biking and running are REALLY easy. Just run some low intensity miles with drills once a week, and hills/strides occasionally. Biking is similar...just time in the saddle and spin classes is enough to set me up to put down top 3 bike splits in most races I've done so far.
Last year I raced XTERRAs and sprints. I may do that again, and may throw in a 70.3, and also may hit a competitive Olympic. What are some break and butter swim sets for the next 6 months. I don't need much variety. If I repeated the same 5 workouts cyclically, I'd be fine as long as I can gradually build them.
What do you do?