pools warming up here with moving into summer, but I doubt any get above 81 fahren!

Dropping yardage off last 4-5 days as going away for a 4-5 day trip with friends to thailand. Freshen up and reset a bit, eat thai fruit, sleep as much as possible - will swim each day but no hard work.

Last couple of swims below LCMs


300 warm up
20x50 on 1, 85-90% effort, with top effort last 4 (32 highs)
200 easy

1k easy warm up mix of strokes
3 rounds of 150 hard on 2, 300 medium hard on 4, 50 fast, 100 easy
200 easy

300 easy
30x50 on 55 - pace from yesterday plus 1. best pace for last 4
200 easy

300 easy
26x50 on 1 - hold best maintainable pace. Heaving towards end
200 easy

3100 scm swim, 6.5 mi run 64:04. Have a cold I think, am tired

500 wu
50 kick
5 x (100 fast, 50 kick) 1:21, 21, 20, 20, 19
400 swim
50 kick
3 x (100 fast, 50 kick) 1:20, 20, 19
200 swim
50 kick
100 fast 1:19, 50 kick
500 cd mix swim and kick

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4050 scm swim, 1.8 mi run 16:58, little bit of indoor rock climbing. Then tripped on a curb while walking and eating a donut :( which twisted my R foot. Is ok I think.

Easy meters
500 on 830
2 x 400 on 630
3 x 300 on 5
2 x (2x (50 kick, 100 fast), 200 swim)
5 x (100 swim, 50 kick) odds fast
Cd to 4050

The “fasts” were 1:25 desc to 1:23

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Pool only about 84.5 or so, took advantage of the coolish water and did some 500's;

3x100s@1;40(1;26/24/23)3x100IM kick@2;10(1;58/55/51)
3x(500p@7;00/50@1;30IM order easy) 500's(6;31/23/18)fly(40)bk(43)brst(45)
8x50, odds buoy@1;10/evens IM order@1;20--buoys(37/36/37/34)IM(36/42/41/31+)
4x50 dolphin@1;20(1;05/04/03/01)50SD
2900SCY in 54 minutes

1500 scm, 1h40 stairmaster, 1500m
on Fri mornings I get out early so I can stream a radio show (wtos Friday morning joke off) from Maine. Ankle is sprained mildly from yesterday, and I still have a cold

3 x 200 on 330 (306, 301, 256)
3 x (50 kick, 100 fast) 1:22, 21, 21
2 x 200 on 315 (301, 256)
50 kick

Second swim
500 wu 802
6 x (50 kick, 100 large desc) 1:31, 29, 26, 23, 22, 20
100 cd

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This week's swim sets:

Monday
2x[200 swim, 4x50 drill]
planned 3x800 on 1:15 base, but felt like crap during the second one, so ended up with this:
800 smooth (9:13)
600 a little stronger (6:47)
3x200 around threshold trying not to puke. (2:13, 2:12, 2:11)
4x50 easy

3000scy

Thursday (was not able to exercise Wed, so pretty well rested)
2x[200 swim, 4x50 drill]
2x[ 5x200 on 2:40, go faster on round 2]
1-3 swim (2:13-12-11 // 2:12-11-08)
4 - with paddles and ankle band (2:16 // 2:15)
5 - hard with paddles and buoy (1:59 // 1:58)
2x50 easy

2900scy

Friday -- short but fast
2x[200 swim, 4x50 drill]
4x50 as 25 sprint, 25 easy. Hitting high 11's on the sprints
4x[100 hard, 3x50 easy]
#1 and #2 swim - 54 mid
#3 with fins - 51 mid
#4 with fins and paddles - 49 mid

2000scy

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yesterday I put my wetsuit on and played on my boggie board at Higgins Beach, Maine
now I'm in Mystic, CT through this coming Fri.
First yard swim since late Sept, didn't watch splits so much as just trying to acclimate to yards - and an analog clock, which I think is annoying. I am also a little tired from travel.

totals for this week are 13 miles of running and 13 miles of swimming. I've been babying the ankle I twisted on Thurs. It's almost 100% better.

500 on 7:30
400 on 6
4 x (50 kick, 100 fast)
300 swim
3 x (50 kick, 100 fast)
300 swim
2 x (50 kick, 100 fast) --- might have actually done 3 of these
200 swim
2 x (50 kick, 100 fast)
5 x 100 on 1:30
50 kick cd

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How does it feel to swim a 49 100 in workout? Yes of course with toys, but still pretty dam fast there Adrian..

Yesterdays get through it swim:

3x(3x100s@1;40/100IM kick@2;30/100 IM order@2;00) swims(1;24/21/19)buoys(1;21/19/17)pulls(1;12/11/09) kicks(1;59/55/52)fly(1;30)bk(1;25)brst(1;29)
2x200p@3;00/50frog@1;30--(2;28/2;24)kicks(52/50)
10x50, odds swim@1;00/evens frog@1;30--swims(35+/33+/32/38/31)kicks(52/51/52/56/49)
300 steady pull(3;54)
2800SCY in 54 minutes

Did my first ever 100x100 yards on Saturday with my Masters team. Farthest I’ve gone before that was 5000 yards, at least as an adult (I quit swimming as a kid when I was 13/14 and don’t remember the yardage we were doing).

Felt pretty good for the first 8000 yards, then the fatigue set in which led to poor form and my shoulder acting up from the poor form. Last 2000 was a slog. Set consisted of 10x10x100s with 2 minutes break in between each set of 10. Roughly half was straight freestyle (1:30 interval, held 1:09 avg), with some equipment assisted free (pulls, drills, etc), some kick with fins (1:22avg - fatigued legs from a bike and run the day before), and some IM (1:15 avg) mixed in there. Kicks and IM were on 1:45.

I went into the set nervous like I was about to do a race, not sure if I could complete it but the camaraderie was great and it wasn’t as bad as I made it out to be.

It feels like it is very hard to get enough oxygen to output the level of power needed to go that fast. My HR was not that high, but I was sucking wind at the end of the 100 (and was pretty much breathing every 2 strokes).

today's swim:
2x[200 swim, 4x50 drill]
4x500 as cruise/strong on 1:20 base
1: 450/50
2: 400/100
3: 350/150
4: 300/200 (with paddles)
4x50 cruise

3000scy

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My 5 Day Covid Experience:

Wed - Woke up feeling like someone splashed concentrated acid onto my throat and lungs. Got test kits. Positive.
Thu - My throat/lungs are on fire. Positive.
Fri - My throat/lungs feel much better. I'm tired as hell. I'm sleeping 15hrs a day. Positive.
Sat - I feel much better. I go for a walk where no humans are, but feeling tired. Sleepapalooza. Positive.
Sun - I no longer feel tired. All symptoms are gone. Positive.
Today - Negative!! Twice, just to be sure. Swam 1500m in a gentle 29:45.

I hope I didn't break any rules. I figure 2 days of feeling relatively symptom-free and testing negative means that I'm ok.

I had 4 shots through the pandemic. I cannot imagine what this would be like if I was one of those "freedom" people. Good luck to them is all I can say.

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I only swim.
I used to run. (31:09 10k)
I never did Triathlon.
Sue me.

Did my first ever 100x100 yards on Saturday with my Masters team.//

Great job on getting through the 100x100, and pretty study to average 1;09 for half of them and 1;15's for the IM's too. Maybe I could do 10 of each, but on like a 2 to 3 minute interval!! How old are you by the way(please dont say over 55) and certainly you had some college swim background??


Got into the hot pool today, 85.5 is my guess. Reduced expictations upon entering the water for sure:

2x(2x100s@1;40/2x100IM kick@2;15/100IM @2;00)swims/buoys(1;22/1;19/1;17/1;16)kicks(1;59/53/53/52)IM's(1;22/1;19)
2x500p@7;00/2x100IM kick@2;15(6;23/6;17)kicks(1;56/56/55/54)
6x50 odds IM order@1;00/evens buoy@1;30(fly-35/bk-40/brst-41)buoys(39/38/36)2x50 dolphin@1;20(1;02/;58)
2800SCY in 54 minutes

Thank you! I'm glad I was able to do it after a year of battling injury. I'm 42, no college swimming background. I swam competitively from ages 8-14, then quit and didn't pick up swimming again until my early 30's. Did a couple years of consistent solo training, then a large number of years of very inconsistent training (we're talking less than 100k yards per year at most). I moved and joined a masters team finally June of 2021, and was consistent doing about 10-15k yards per week until November 2021 when I went to Thailand for vacation and did open water only there through February. Picked up a shoulder injury, broken thumb, COVID-19, and an injured back between March-July of this year so was again inconsistent. Since August I've been good and slowly working up the yardage peaking at 13-14k per week the last month.

Goal for this coming year is to actually be able to consistently swim and maybe work from 3 workouts per week to 4 or 5.

Thanks for filling us in on your history, and hope you have turned the corner on all the negative aspects of the past couple years. Well you must have been a pretty decent kid swimmer, it hardwired enough into your brain to be able to bring it back 15 years later.. You are about the same age as one of our fast regulars here, Adrian. You guys might even be similar speeds, makes for a great ST masters relay!!!

What do you think Adrian, doing 50x 1;09s on the 1;30, then a bunch of 1;15 IM's for a 10k workout, is this guy going 2nd in your lane??

Welcome to the fishes, come on in when you need to pinch a workout, or just get some motivation. We all drop in and out according to our injury and sickness schedules, although Tiger seems to just swim through all that stuff... (-;

That's a really solid workout there, you should be proud of that.

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I've been thinking of doing something silly over the holidays, maybe I will work up something goofy like 100x100, but it means like 3 hours at the pool which is a tough ask. But that's a really good performance.

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Thanks for the welcome and words of encouragement Monty and Adrian! I was a decent swimmer as a kid, was top 10 in New England for anywhere from 4-7 events depending on the year during my 11-12 and 13-14 age group years. Never higher than 2nd place though! Story of my life :-)

Based on Adrian’s 54s 100y free during a practice without toys I’d say he’s on a whole other level from me! I haven’t done faster than a 58 off the wall in practice this year.

Congratulations on the workout, very nice!
I am in CT helping my cousin w her two kids, cousin’s wife has been in the hospital since thurs due to cardiac “event”. Yesterday 4500 yds and 2.7 mi run (26:19) first run since I twisted my ankle thurs. Today 3100 yds and 2.8 mi run (27:50)

Yesterday
1000 wu
50 kick
9 x (100 mod, 50 kick)
4 x 200 on 315 (I think I did them on 315)
50 kick
7 x (100 swim 50 kick) faster than the 9 times but middle one easy
Forgot what I did after that, if anything

Today
5 x 200 on 310 desc 255 to 244
2 x (5 x (50 kick, 100 fast), 50 kick, 200 easy). All 1:13-1:15
50 kick cd

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3300 yd swim, 6.5 mi run (65 min). Still kinda tired, getting this in super early to be around to help w my cousin's kids. Hoping her wife can come home from the hospital today or tomorrow.

annoyed w having an analog clock only (but grateful to have something) and didn't pay a ton of attention to splits
5 x 300 on 4:45
5 x (50 kick, 100 fast) 1:13-1:15 but was sharing a lane so didn't get to swim entirely straight
50 kick
500 swim
2 x (50 kick, 100 fast) 1:13s
50 kick
150 cd

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Today is my birthday, and yesterday was my birthday swim. 25 yard pool

12 x 100 @ 1:30
:30 break
12 x 100 @ 1:25 with buoy and snorkel
1:00 break
12 x 100 @ 1:25 4 with buoy, snorkel, paddles; 4 with paddles and buoy; 4 with buoy
15 x 100 @ 1:25
100 easy

5100y + 100y easy

Ah no pace clock that's a tad annoying. At my regular pool there is a pace clock and a digital clock (with red numbers etc). Its funny as the digital and pack clocks are not in sync, and every week or so verge another 2-3 seconds apart. Starting to have a preference for the digital clock recently

Getting back into it LCM

today

200 easy
20x50 on 1 as fast efforts
100 easy
10x50 on 55 fast effort + 1 and getting t rex arms with fatigue
200 easy

Yesterday
1k easy
2 rounds of 2x100 on 120, 4x100 on 130, 4x100 on 140, 4 x 100 on 150 desc each block to best average on 150s
cool down

happy bday!

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There's a clock, it's just an analog pace clock instead of digital, and I'm a princess who likes the digital one

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yesterday 8.4 mi run as .4 w/u, 2 mi at each 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8 mph
this turned out to be a little too much for my foot (still healing from twisting my ankle on 11/17), boo :-(
today 4750 yd swim + dip in the ocean after (no wetsuit, the cold felt so good)

last swim in the pool w analog clock only so I didn't watch splits closely, the fast 100s were 1:14-1:15

5 x 300 on 4:45 desc 4:15-3:51
500 swim
1 x (50 kick + 100 fast)
50 kick
450 swim
2 x (50 kick + 100 fast)
50 kick
400 swim
3 x (50 kick + 100 fast)
50 kick
350 swim
4 x (50 kick + 100 fast)
50 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.
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Sat - 5 mi run w/ 3.3 mi @ 7.2 mph
Sun - 31.7 mi bike
today - 3700 scm swim + 13 mi bike

something like

3 x 200 on 3:30 (3:12-2:58. Got tangled in pool vaccuum cord on first one :-)
50 kick
3 x (100 desc + 50 kick) 1:22, 21, 19
2 x 200 on 3:30
50 kick
2 x (100 fast + 50 kick) 1:19, 1:19
1 x 200 on 3:30
50 kick
1 x (100 fast + 50 kick) forgot lol
1 x 150 swim
50 kick
1 x (100 fast + 50 kick) forgot lol
2 x 150 on 2:45
2 x (100 fast + 50 kick) 1:21, 1:19
3 x 50 on 1:00 easy
100 fast
350 goofing off with various kicks

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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