Pool swim this AM - workout planned by the GF (badass swimmer herself & I had to leave, but she went on and did more - 4200)
W/U
300s/100IM
Kick
4x[4x100 all strokes]
Drill
2x[4x25 fly/2x50bk/2x50br/100fr/200fr] (drill down, swim back)
300 s/k cool

3500 sc yardages

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getting excited for Bridge Swim?

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Yeah.... I hope the water goes up a few more degrees! I have a kayaker who escorted last year - so has experience. If you take my time from yesterday's 5500 and predict my bridge swim time from that, I'm gonna have a real good one - I think sub-5 hours. Of course fatigue will play an issue, but then so will current. Regardless, will be fun!

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60x50 various stuff on more or less :60

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

I'm psyched for you. Please make sure to get pictures!

6.2 mi easy run 55 min, 1675 yd swim

600 w/u
2 x 100 on 1:30
50 kick
100 fast 1:14
100 easy
200 fast 2:32
75 swim
25 kick
300 fast 3:53
25 kick 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

I have been in an overall funk with life, between work stress and my ability to bike and run recently having gone to shit from spasms from my nerve issues. I have been swimming daily, but with nothing planned, no focus, just mental therapy to get away from life in general, since the pool is the only time that I can feel "normal" right now.

In any case, today, an impromtu 1000m fly-free materialized. Unfortunately it is not timed as it was totally unplanned. I was on a 70 min swim and at one point, I did a 100 fly hard and continued for 100 free pretty hard....after atrying to coax AnnaS to d some more 400 fly free in her leadup to IM Roth, I figured I should keep going to 400 fly-free....this soon morphed into a 3rd 100m fly to get me to 500m....at which point, I just mentally said, "well, if I came this far, i just need to do two hundreds of fly and it gets me to 1000m" (since the free part is the easy part)...so I did it. It felt easier than the 1000m doing 50/50. I felt that the longer free gave me more "rest" before going ballistic on the 100m fly again. But it could just be because I did not time it and was going easier!!!


If I get up enough nerve to do it in TT mode I may try another 1000m TT. That was the hardest aerobic effort that I can recall doing in many years, so not sure I want to go there again any time soon. But since I have no window into any other type of racing, maybe worth another try.

Dev, I'm really sorry your nerves are acting up again. I hope it gets better soon.

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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

Dev, I'm sorry too that it's all been acting up. Continuing to try will make sure you figure *something* out.
I've half a mind to do your 2000 IM set today. OTOH, it sounds terrible.

On the 2000 meter of IM, I don't think it would be good to do that much breast stroke. In fact, if I recall correctly, my nerve/disc issue acted up around the time I started doing more breast stroke, so I have been doing modified 200m IM as (50 fly-50 back-25 breast-75 free). I think I might just remove all the breast stroke and see if my run and biking go back in a positive direction. Right now I can't even do 10 pedal strokes without an uncontrollable leg spasm. I was making a lot of progress in May, but no go now, so taking some time off the bike for sure. I'll may try some running again later this week to see what is going on. I think I can run again, but have been laying low. Really I want to be able to ride again with the good weather here. I can swim and shuffle on the treadmill all year.

Can you do dolphin kick breast stroke? It's a legit drill.
Breast stroke kick is for morphological aliens, as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't do anything that you think could be hurting it.

Yes, I can do dolphin kick breast stroke! Agreed on the morphologic alien thing!!! I will stick to dolphin kick!

Triple whammy day:
This AM, a 5.6 mile trail run with 700 feet of climbing. Took forever... no not really, just under an hour.
At lunch time, the outside temp climbed to 97, so I decided to hop in the pool for some yardages. Big mistake! The pool is solar heated and was nearly the same temperature as the air. I did a 500, a couple 200s then some 25 yard sprints for a whopping 1200 yards.
I received an announcement that there was going to be an evening swim at Oak Street. So I went. Ocean is almost 70, and I got in just over 3000 yards, to Main Beach buoy and back. The surf was about 5 feet and some wind chop texture, so it wasn't the quickest swim at 48 minutes.

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4000 SCM with a main set of
8 x 300 as
odds 150 long and strong, 50 kick, 100 descend by 25s
evens 3x100 descend

I see what you are doing there....everything is broken up into groups of 500m....even the 400m fly-free has 50 attached to each side. While on the one side, this is brilliant for keeping tabs on actual mileage, I MUST give you full marks for meeting the triathlete A type need to meter everything. You would pass the bar of my buddy who stops his watch between intervals at the track because he cannot count "standing around time" as training time, even though his heart is beating at 185 bpm still LOL!

OK, I will break today's workout into groups of 500m. This means my modified IM would be (50m fly, 25 m back, 25 breast with fly kick, 150m free)

AnnaS, did the Roth race happen yet? If so how was it?

realAB, I'm late in congratulating you, but nice meet times.

my workouts today: 5 mi run w/ 5k @ 7:30 pace, 850 yd swim

500 w/u
50 kick
100 fast 1:13
50 easy
100 fast 1:14
50 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

To your point about 50m pool being way harder than 25m, definitely agree. How many fly strokes do you take to cover 50m vs 25m. I'll have to count next time, but I am around 30-34 for 50m pool (depending on fatigue) and 11 for 25m pool. I guess I cover too much of the 25m pool underwater and don't get that benefit in the 50m pool

I swam this morning at Shaw's Cove. It was very foggy, so we elected to stay within the cove and try to find the buoy. The surf was up and the water temperature dropped, probably 62-63. I headed out towards the buoy and when I felt I had swam far enough, I started looking for it - about 25 yards to my right (outside). I continued southward with a plan to reverse direction when I hit the kelp growth. I did hit the kelp growth, turned back and began searching for the buoy once I felt I had swum far enough. This time it was about 50 yards to my right (inside). Very difficult to navigate in the fog. I did another cove lap before calling it quits as I was getting chilled (no wetsuit). Got in 1500 yards in just over 20 minutes. I have been shivering for over an hour and my fingertips are white.
My new SwimRun wetsuit arrived last night. I will be testing it tonight back at Shaw's.

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3000 scm at Masters last night.

Main Set

4 x 100 @ 2:10 IM (1 ez 1 fast). (1:20. 1:19)

100 kick ez

4 x 100 @ 2:10 choice (1 ez 1 fast) (free on ez, fly on fast 1:13, 1:15 - ouch....)

We had 4 in the lane, 2 others decided to do fly as well so it got pretty wavy. I wasn't particularly happy with the times, felt I should have been a couple secs faster on IM and fly....

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

7 mi run, 1475 yd swim

400 w/u
5 x 100 on 1:25
100 easy
50 kick
4 x 100 on 1:20
25 kick 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

I just got my first open water tech suit last night. It's ridiculous.
I'm racing a two mile cable swim this weekend.
Neck to ankles, no sleeves. Looks comically small. Hope I can get it on.

I think the same thing every time I put on my tech suit. "How am I supposed to fit <<<<<<<<<<<<<this>>>>>>>>>>>> into <<<that>>>?"

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly

Laughing.
Yeah I always have the same reaction with jammers, but this thing looks like it's made for a five foot tall elf.

One of those FINA tech suits? I haven't dug that deep into the sport to think about getting one, but I did get a tech suit for Masters swimming. It's just a jammer, but takes like 10 minutes to put on. You'll now know what the women go through for swim meets and their tech suits. They usually need a helper or two.

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