HalfSpeed wrote:
Gotta be a pool somewhere in Colorado. :)OK, so I'm back home from my trip to Colorado, but it turns out I did get in a pretty interesting swim practice while I was there.
Half way through my vacation I went to a Saturday morning practice at the Scott Carpenter Pool in Boulder. To make a long story short I jumped in the lane with Laura and Greg Bennett, Michael Lovato, Craig Alexander, and Tom Lowe (amongst a few others). It was a very shallow long course meters pool. I never remember exact workouts to well, but this is more or less the main part of what we did...
2x250 @ 3:40
100 not free
2x150 @ 2:10
100 not free
13x50@:40
50 not free
rest for next set
2x(
2x300@4:00 (pull)
100 @1:50
1x300@4:00 (swim)
100@1:50
1x100@1:20
100@1:50)
~5,000 lcm (I didn't list everything we did)
Basically, I only made the first set and then one time through the second set. =)
I don't want to go too far into my list of excuses for not making it, but essentially it all boiled down to: 1.) I missed a lot of turns during the 300 pulls and used too much energy to get back in the flow. 2.) I didn't have any paddles for the pull part. and 3.) there is no air in Boulder -- at least compared to Dallas.
In reference to excuse #3, I was breathing 1:1 (!) on my last 50 meters before I moved over to a slower lane.
The funny part is even though I was out each night drinking all the Colorado beer I could find, I felt really good in the water that day. What I was really hoping for was to get to throw down with someone over 100 or 200 meters. I liked my chances under those circumstances. However, it was not to be. I was "triathloned" to death by folks that can just keep going and going and going. It was just one 1:20/100lcm interval after another for 90 minutes.