Happy New Year, this was the hardest workout I’ve ever done too date.
100 x 100m @ 100sec ,I can safely say I will not be doing that again anytime soon. Did it by myself ( my wife did 100 x 50m ) only me and a pair of budge smugglers. Started out pretty consistent but as you can see died on the last 15. Overall happy with the swim.

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"Be your best cheerleader , not your worst critic.”

My pool is closed for cleaning and maintenance 1/10/20. The problem is they always install brand new water that is still stiff. It takes couple of weeks to loosen up. Until that happens I'll be slow(er).

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"...the street finds its own uses for things"

Congrats, I can relate to the fade in the last 15% of a 10km...at the end of the day, its basically like doing a marathon. What was your nutrition? Hopefully it was more than the 1.5L I took (1L Gatorade with salt 500mL coke).

Can not even imagine going that fast OR for so long

Please tell me you are not as proficient at running and biking

😀

That’s so funny , had oats for breakfast then almost identical to you 1 liter of water with pink salt and a water bottle of Gatorade

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"Be your best cheerleader , not your worst critic.”

Congrats on the 100x100! Pretty good pacing until that anvil landed on you. :)

2500 for me this morning
300 wu
6x50 fly fast on :60
150 cruise
30 x 50 on 1:01 (beat the clock)
- alternated free and fly for the first 14 then just free.
- ran out of gas near the end and started missing the :60 on #27
250 cd

I think my biggest issue was the time for the swim was 11:30 to 3 pm...right over lunch hour. I slept in and had breakfast at 8:30 am, but I think I was starving for lunch midway thru my set. But if I add it up, I barely had 600 calories for a 3.5 hrs outing while missing lunch...probably not optimal.

Nicely done. Doing them on 1:40 is no joke.

I did 50x100 on 1:35* on Dec 31 to close out 2020.

*well, kind of on 1:35, more like 1:35 "equivalent". 10 swim on 1:35, 5 kick on 2:00, 5 pull on 1:40, then repeat that whole thing and finish off with 10 on 1:35. took an extra 30s to 1:00 after each "group" to reset on the clock.

Thankfully didn't die, for the swims I held 1:18's or so, except on the last one I picked it up with a 1:11.

Doing 100 would've been tough though.

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

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

LOL.
4.7 mi run, 1625 yd swim

8 x 100 on 1:35
3 x [200 fast + 50 kick] 2:33, 2:33, 2:36
75 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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Your pool does that too?

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Swimming Workout of the Day:

Favourite Swim Sets:

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

Nice job on the 100x100. I did that as an exclamation point for 2019 on Monday Dec 30. I was slightly slower on the 100 meter intervals than you but I did keep every one of them under 100 seconds (average around 1:33). It's definitely quite an accomplishment!

Pete Priolo
ironpete@ironpete.com

Well I discovered a new workout called "pool fartlek"...as it is Jan 2 there were around 8 people in the so called "fast lane". Now you can just imagine what the definition of fast turned into on Jan 2 and we had this one crazy guy trying to pass people pressing buttons on his watch to make his "split times".

I just went with the flow and ended up going fast when I could get some open water in front of me, and then choice IM kick when I got stuck behind someone. I actually got a really good workout but have no clue what it really was. Was in the pool for 65 minutes continuous (there was no point stopping) and just swam when I could in all 4 strokes and kicked when I needed to get a workout at slow speed. Probably 2500m total in that time frame.

In the last 10 minutes, it was down 3 people, so I did 600m hard as 4x (50m fly sprint+25m free recovery + 50m free sprint + 25m free recovery.)

Today my pool was almost empty. I had brought my gym clothes in case it was too crowded for a swim. Yesterday it was mostly regulars but still open lanes. I think people are still out of town. We will see if they show up next week.

that's a pretty impressive swim you did, was it short or long course? One of my local pools just opened today after the holidays, and The LCM caught me by surprise. Haven't swam that format for a very long time, and my times reflected that. At the end I did 10x100@1;40 pulling, just right at your pace you held for 10 times that!!

30x100 as- 5s@2;00(1;41 to 1;34)5back@2;00(1;47 to 1;44)5free/breast kick@2;30(2;12 to 2;05)5 breast@2;15(1;57 to 1;51)10pull@1;40(1;27's/26 until last two 1;25/23)
3000LCM

Lunch swim SCM:
600 WU
4x100 50drill/50swim 10 sec rest
8 x 50 IM order (1-4 swim, 5-8 kick) 10 sec rest
6 x 200 build 1-3 and 4-6 on 2:40
6 x 100 odds fr/evens IM on 1:40
300 WD
Total: 3100

Freestyle
2x600yds
2x500yds
4x400yds
4x300yds
4x200yds
2x100yds

6000 yards total.

Btw, Once you hit 5300 yards, the Garmin 935 switches from X,xxx yards format to X.xx Mile format

Thank you ,coming from you that’s a big compliment. It was short coarse meters ,looking back I would like the last 15 / 100m back but it was all I could do to stay afloat.

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"Be your best cheerleader , not your worst critic.”

5 mi run, 1225 yd swim, 5.5 mi run

6 x 100 on 1:35
2 x [200 fast + 50 kick] 2:29, 2:30
125 c/d

pretty happy with those 200s, guess I got the cobwebs out yesterday

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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

Jeez, you guys are fast. And/or, I am slow. Probably both.


1:15 hr bike in the morning.

Evening:
5 min w/u easy free
10 min focus on smooth strong pull
10 min focus on strong core
10 min focus on strong kick
Repeat 2x: (5 Min med fast pace, 5 Min easy, 5 Min fast)
C/D: 10 min easy pull, 5 min easy free


SCY (ugh). Working on the 2:3 breathing pattern (thanks Monty/Gary!) Took about 1 hr 26 with 1 hr 20 of swimming. 4298 m @ 1:53/100 m pace.


Swim time rankings are always pretty poor in comparison with bike and run. Need to get better at swimming this year (and biking and running, but you know what I mean).

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Darren
https://www.strava.com/athletes/12385497

SCY. No special New Year Swim. Just consistency
1000 FR (13:48)/300K IM/4x25 Fly on 30
400IM on 7:00 (6:04)
300IM on 5:15 (4:33)
200IM on 3:30 (2:56)
100IM on 1:45 (1:26)
6x50K on 1:15 (59-62)
200P on 3:00/2x150P on 2:15/100P on 1:30/2x50P on 45/100P easy

3500 total

Lunch swim
500 wu
200 kick
4 x 50s 25 stroke/25 free
15 x 100 on 1:15
100 kick
10 x 100 pull on 1:15
100 kick
5 x 100 IM on 1:30
100 kick
300 wd

4500 yards

Started yesterday with a swim “intervention” for a couple athletes:

Am:

Test set with 800m long course TT (we call this our “turkey time”)
Total about 1800m

Pm:

1k w/u (all flip turns)
5x100 IM (one arm fly)
4-2-100-50 pull then same PP

3km give or take

This AM

Basic aerobic for 50minutes as free-band-pull-pp
About 2500-3000m

Tomorrow 3:30 pm
USRPT SET at 3x10x100 sc no toys.
3km....but we’re going to fail a bit.

I must say I am a 1:05 guy at Ironman at about 80 hours a year....haven’t done a double in about 12 years, 4700m, it was easy...until I got up this morning! I was very sore in unusual places.

Anyways the goal for about 8-10 weeks is to get some swimmers who were 1:17-1:20 at IM down to sub 1:08...hopefully find 10 minutes there.

Maurice

3100 SCY
Sunny, 65F, perfect weather
Sole swimmer, 1 lifeguard

1,000 timed: 15:29. I have some work to do...
5 x {100 kick; 100 pull; 100 IM; 100 free}
100 floating

5 minutes aqua jogging
15 minutes egg beater

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Hillary Trout
San Luis Obispo, CA

Your trip is short. Make the most of it.
https://www.slogoing.net/

So approximately :14/100 yard faster in 8-10 weeks?