Ummm, shouldn't this be the "October" fish thread???

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

It is still October in Oregon.

Swam 2500m today. 1k warm up... then ladder 100, 200, 300, 400...then back down... 400... oops... ran out of time.

Swimming in the river tomorrow. Still Summer here.

I'll be doing the 6k ePostal on Friday...

[Maybe someone renames the thread?]

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Proud member of FISHTWITCH: beating you to T1 for over a decade, and working on beating you to T2...

yeah, and by the looks of it the feet weren't so fast either.

Ouch!
sorry.

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I saw this on a white board in a window box at my daughters middle school...
List of what life owes you:
1. __________
2. __________
3. __________

yeah, and by the looks of it the feet weren't so fast either.

Ouch!
sorry. //

Ok guys, redid the thread title, been awhile like i said..And I try and get dan to draft me all the time, but he flat refuses.The most he will do is pace off of me and i will hug the lane about a body length in front, but that is it. I've never been so honorable, love to swim on fast feet, always have, guess that is where i get my OW advantage from..


I predict that he will make the set next week sometime though, just needs to regroup after two big travels, vegas and hawaii. Once we get that goal out of the way, it will be doing some sets to try and maybe to the epostal 3000. I told myself i would not do it unless i was guaranteed a minimum of 45 minutes, got that in hand now so just a matter of getting closer to 1;25 pace now..

10/1: 3600scy: warmed up, 6x50, 3x100, 2x150 all on 1:35 base, 500/1000/500 moderate
60 minutes on the trainer in the afternoon with 2x20 @ 85% ftp

Officially kicking off setting a base for next spring, declaring myself healthy

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no swim yesterday

1500 yds after an 8 mi run today

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

10/2: No swim, just an easy 8.1 mile run (outside!).

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Monty, my target for the month in 110K for the month...definitely sold swimming lots of volume now that I'm not doing the other sports. My focus is to keep improving my butterfly and breast stroke this month. I am feeling that both are having a positive effect on my freestyle, the breast helping the front end of my catch and the fly helping body position and timing. I got this drill where I do 100m just doing 2-4 strokes of each transitioning from one stroke connecting it into the other style.

Today's swim was 500m warmup, 500m with fins: hard 75m free, 25m kick on one side x 5, 500m paddles 3 strokes (mentioned above), 16x100m (50m fly-50m free paddles), 400m cooldown (free and breast)

3 mi bike to campus, 3.3 mi run, 4500 yd swim


goal was to keep the 200s under 2:30. I held 2:27s for all but the last three (2:29, 2:29, 2:32)

5 x 100 on 1:30, extra :30 after the last one
200 fast on 3:00
5 x 100 on 1:30, extra :30 after the last one
2 x 200 fast on 3:00
5 x 100 on 1:30, extra :30 after the last one
3 x 200 fast on 3:00
5 x 100 on 1:30, extra :30 after the last one
2 x 200 fast on 3:00
5 x 100 on 1:30, extra :30 after the last one
200 fast on 3:00
100 easy
50 kick
50 back c/d

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

tigerchik, that workout looks scary and motivating at the same time, I may try it on a Saturday when I can swim longer.

Today, 10/3, I swam 3000 yards: 500 warm up, 10x50, 10x100, 10x50 and 500 cool down. Everything on 1:35 base.

I'm at a point over the last few weeks where I seem to have hit a plateau where my 50s are 38s and my 100s are 1:21. I'm still very new to swimming, maybe 6 months in, so I assume eventually I'll come through the plateau. I'm in week 7 of a 10 week block of heavy swimming where my goal is to improve my typical leave base from 1:40 to 1:35. Halfway there.

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Oct. 1
Can you believe October and the ocean temp is warming? Hitting 70 degrees now!
I was moody and did a longish solo swim out of Shaw's Cove to EB1, close to Emerald Point at the north end of Emerald, then swam inside to the swim buoy line (marks the beach swim area) and along that before turning back towards the open ocean to Seal Rock. That segment is a bit tricky as the reef kicks up pretty quick and you can find yourself in breaking surf with exposed reef between waves (yikes!). Returned to Shaw's a hour and 7 minutes later and my GPS saying I went 4695 yards (1:21 pace). Happy with that - way better than Tiki Swim pace and I didn't push as hard - go figure!

Oct 2
No swim. I decided not to join the pod and 400 other participating in the annual, always cancelled (nod nod wink wink) Aquathon - an 8 mile swim/walk journey from Emerald Bay to Monarch Beach. Instead, Heidi and I did a Bike/Run brick -28 miles kinda cruising on the bike and then 4.2 miles running where my first couple miles was just trying to keep up with her, and then my body said no more. At one point, my watched showed a 6:30 pace and she was pulling away from me and looking comfy doing it! She crushed it! Great runner!

Oct 3
No swim in morning. Was planning to swim in the sloshbucket, but pool is being used for a video shoot. I ran, instead, 4.7 miles, this time much more comfortable and yet the same overall time/pace - 41ish minutes.

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Proud member of FISHTWITCH: doing a bit more than fish exercise now.

Still coughing and still got shit coming out my lungs, but otherwise feel fine. Long boring set today;

6x500--1 swim@7;30, 4pull@7;00, 1 IM kick-- 7;12/6;49/6;37/6;35/6;39/9;56

3000SCY 45;30

500 swim, 500 pull, 100 kick
3x200 swim on 2:55
3x200 pull on 2:50
100 kick on 2:15
3x200 swim on 2:50
3x200 pull on 2:45
100 kick on 2:00
100 ez

3800scy

I didn't feel great today, so only a slight descend on the swims and steady on the pulls.

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ALBOPADS XTERRAWETSUITS NEWTON OAKLEY FIZIK GARMIN ROTOR COMPUTRAINER QUARQ HONEYSTINGER

8.5 mi run: .75 w/u, 3.5 mi @ 7:35 pace, .25 easy, 3.1 mi @ 7:30 pace, .9 c/d
1600 yd swim: 500 on 7:30, 5 x 100 on 1:25, 500 on 7:30, 100 kick

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

Yesterday at lunch I ran 6 miles at 7:50avg. Since the injury comeback it was the first time I let myself up the pace a bit and did the run as a progression: 8:31, 8:06, 7:50, 7:35, 7:29, 7:24. Soon hopefully I'll be quick again.

This morning was a 2fer:
3000scy, 10 minutes warm up, 5 x 200 on 3:10 (2:49, 2:48, 2:47, 2:46 and 2:45), 1000y in 14:45, short cool down
Rode to work, Z2, 1:20

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Into the pool this AM
1000s 13:00
1000 IM Kick w/fins
10x100@1:20 ~1:14/:15
200 cool


I still got it! I could have continued on the 100s, but hit my time limit.

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Proud member of FISHTWITCH: doing a bit more than fish exercise now.

nice job. 12.1 mi run 1:45:07, then 1400 yds as 2 x [500 swim + 100 kick] and 2 x 100 back

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

500 swim
3x100 drill on 1:50
4x200 pull on 3:00 (breathe 3/5/3/7 by 50s)
8x25 (12.5 fast/12.5 ez) on 30
10x100 (75 fast/25 ez) on 1:50
200 ez
3000scm

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Bruce
ALBOPADS XTERRAWETSUITS NEWTON OAKLEY FIZIK GARMIN ROTOR COMPUTRAINER QUARQ HONEYSTINGER

7.5 mi run last 4 mi progressive 8:00, 7:53, 7:47, 7:40 then half mile @ 7:35 pace
2600 yd swim

5 x 100 on 1:30 w/u
50 kick
5 x [100 fast on 1:30 + 50 easy on 1:30] 1:13s
50 kick
5 x 200 on 2:50
50 kick
2 x 100 IM easy

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

Got in a solid day yesterday:

400ez/6x50desc 1-3, 4-6/6x50 as 25 drill + 25 swim
Main:
16x50 pull on :45 every 4th faster (held :37-38 and :35)
10x25 fast on :30 (16s)
12x50 pull on :50 every 3rd faster (held :37-38 and :35)
10x25 fast with buoy only on :30
8x50 pull on :55 every other faster (held :38 and :33-34)
10x25 fast on :30 (16s)
4x50 pull on :60 all faster (33/33/33.5/34)
4x75 breathe 3/5/7 by 25
50ez float
4100scy

And then in the evening, a 60min run with 5k pace work in a fartlek - all pace stuff at ~5:35 pace feeling pretty smooth.

Today, another 4000scy in the pool - some 400s pulling and some faster 50s. An easy run planned for later.

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"Don't you have to go be stupid somewhere else?"..."Not until 4!"

Ran 6.3 miles today at 7:19 average pace, warmed up for 2 miles then did 3 uptempo miles in 19:53, then cooled down. Really an ego blow, long way back after 9 months on the shelf.

Swam 3000scy, 10 minute warm up, 500 hard, 12 x 50, 500 hard, cool down

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Way to go Steve, you are back!! You got the 1000 endurance and the 100 speed!!

I'm still gasping in the water, did my first IM kind of set in a few years. I still got the strokes, just takes forever to catch my breath..

6x 200@3;00/100IM kick@2;30/100 IM @ 2;00---3swim/3pull

2;49/2;47/2;46/2;39/2;36/2;37-- kicks 1;57 to 1;49-- IM's 1;27/26/24/23/22/22

2400SCY 45 minutes

Friday: 11.5 mi run 1:37:38, 1300 yd swim

3 x 50 on :45
3 x 100 on 1:30
3 x 50 on :45
100 kick
5 x 100 on 1:30
100 kick

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

500 swim
300 pull breathe every 5 strokes
200 back
4x50 fast on 50
4x200 paddles only on 2:40
100 back ez on 2:00
4x50 fast on 50
4x100 buoy only on 1:30
100 ez

2800scy

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Bruce
ALBOPADS XTERRAWETSUITS NEWTON OAKLEY FIZIK GARMIN ROTOR COMPUTRAINER QUARQ HONEYSTINGER