Tarpon Challenge - Week 5

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Week 5’s workouts.

This week’s coach is Michael Collins. I asked Mike to be a guest coach for this series because I do not know of a swim coach who is equally ingrained into both the world of pure swimming and the world of pure triathlon. Michael is as likely to win an open water swim as he is to win his AG at swimming Masters Nationals as he is to win triathlon sprint nationals. He is also a highly regarded coach in both swimming and triathlon and is the long time head coach of the Irvine Novaquatics.

What I’d like is for you all to swim like swimmers, not like triathletes. Mike is the prototype for this kind of athlete, and this mindset.

http://www.slowtwitch.com/…_challenge_week1.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/…_challenge_week2.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/…_challenge_week3.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/…_challenge_week4.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/…_challenge_week5.pdf

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Oooh, the Mike Collins set is quite the set…

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question about terminology…
in Week 5, Workout 1, Set 2
it says ‘straight swim, no stopping,’ but I’m not sure how that works when it also discusses leave intervals.

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it means that there is no break or rest (beyond the rest allowed in your leave interval) in between, say, 100s, 150s, 200s, etc. if you were to swim, say, 6x100 on the 1:40, then 4x150 on the 2:30, rather than stop and rest after the 100s you’d swim your 100s leaving on the 1:40 base, which after 6 of them would bring you around to the top for your next leave, then you move straight into the 150s on the top.