"Strokes" are beyond me, at this point. But, as promised I did work on my flip turns, comical though I'm sure it was. I did them in my first 100 free warmup. Those were such a disaster, I had no idea how to time or coordinate them for my single-arm drill sets, so I did those with open turns as per normal. I tried flip-turns again in the first 3 50s of my main-set. Oh god! Besides the random directions off the wall while swimming at pace...the hypoxia (especially when the random direction was DOWN)!!!! Ok, ok...I bailed on the flips after 3, and vowed to practice in the warm-down pool after.
WU: 3x100 drills
MS: 26x50 @47s (20s) failed at #13, #21, #26
CD: 100ez
Everything was slow today. I felt like it was a little bit of everything: hips low, slipping a little on the pull, and maybe fishtailing a bit. Looking at the data from Garmin:
I tried to "fix" the things I was noticing this morning, with "some" success: my pace picked up y about 1.5s in the latter half of the set, and the spl dropped by a stroke. But, things just weren't "right" today.
I kinda screwed the pooch on Saturday, it was the first time this year that I swam AND did my long bike on the same day. For various reasons, I haven't been able to swim much on Saturday's this year. Anyway, I clearly didn't eat enough before swimming AND biking. I should have had a second breakfast or something before going out to bike. I hit the wall on the bike with an hour to go, and have been in recovery mode since. Legs still feel like crap. So, I'm clearly still carrying a lot of fatigue from my fuck-up. I suppose that played into how I swam this morning.
Oh well. First backslide this year.
Oh yeah...almost forgot. I spent 15 minutes in the warm-down pool practicing flip turns. Felt significantly better by the end. Flipping onto my back and rotating post push-off seemed to work better than flipping and rotating at once.
WU: 3x100 drills
MS: 26x50 @47s (20s) failed at #13, #21, #26
CD: 100ez
Everything was slow today. I felt like it was a little bit of everything: hips low, slipping a little on the pull, and maybe fishtailing a bit. Looking at the data from Garmin:
- stroke rate was up to 56 spm (vs 54 spm on Saturday)
- Strokes was up to 23 spl (vs 21 spl on Saturday)
- Pace was slower 47/48 per 50y (vs 45/46 on Saturday)
I tried to "fix" the things I was noticing this morning, with "some" success: my pace picked up y about 1.5s in the latter half of the set, and the spl dropped by a stroke. But, things just weren't "right" today.
I kinda screwed the pooch on Saturday, it was the first time this year that I swam AND did my long bike on the same day. For various reasons, I haven't been able to swim much on Saturday's this year. Anyway, I clearly didn't eat enough before swimming AND biking. I should have had a second breakfast or something before going out to bike. I hit the wall on the bike with an hour to go, and have been in recovery mode since. Legs still feel like crap. So, I'm clearly still carrying a lot of fatigue from my fuck-up. I suppose that played into how I swam this morning.
Oh well. First backslide this year.
Oh yeah...almost forgot. I spent 15 minutes in the warm-down pool practicing flip turns. Felt significantly better by the end. Flipping onto my back and rotating post push-off seemed to work better than flipping and rotating at once.