Thursday Night Masters

Last night's workout was a bastard, I felt like puking and lost feeling in my right pinkie toe. Yeah, I don't know, I have no explanation for the toe thing so don't ask me. Last time I felt like puking during a workout was probably when I was on the high school track team. I'm not really a 'push until you puke' sort of person. I'm a firm believer in the notion that one's stomach contents should remain in their rightful place. The intervals were tight though and I was leading the lane and trying to hang on and next thing I knew I was pushing too hard.

Here's the workout if you'd like to play along. The idea in the main set is that you should have 2 seconds rest on the 100 yards and the recovery 25 (or 50 or 75) is done on the same interval no matter your skill level. In other words, if you're faster than me, and chances are you are, you should adjust the time interval on the 100 so you have 2 seconds rest, then adjust the 75, 50 and 25 accordingly but the recovery 25 is done on 50 seconds (50 on 1:20 and 75 on 1:50).

South Boulder Recreation Center
Coach: Jane

Distances are in yards, time is in mins:secs.

Warm-Up
200 free
25 non-free
25 kick

150 free
25 non-free
25 kick

100 free
25 non-free
25 kick

Swim the above continuously. Then:
4x75 on 2:00 (1st 25 is kick, 2nd 25 is non-free, 3rd 25 is free)

Main Set
100 on 1:40
25 on :50
75 on 1:20
25 on :50
50 on :50
25 on :50
25 on :30
25 on :50

Repeat patten above but with 50's for recovery, ie
100 on 1:40
50 on 1:20
etc.

Repeat patten above but with 75's for recovery, ie
100 on 1:40
75 on 1:50
etc.

Please try not to lose contents of stomach.

Grand Finale
To add insult to injury-a timed 100 of kicking using a kickboard. Predict your fastest possible time and try to make it. No sand bagging. When the coach asked me my predicted time I said 'oh 10 minutes'. She said 'Nice try but I'm giving you 2:30'. I suck at kicking especially with a kickboard but I surprised myself and finished before they turned off the lights in the pool and shut down the rec. center. Time was 2:39, not so bad for me especially after the killer set that had come before.

I made all the intervals on the main set except for the last 100. First 100 was 1:38 (perfect), second 100 was 1:40, third was 1:45. On the first 2 I swam with short, fast strokes which is what my coach has told me to do on sprint workouts like this. For the last I thought I'd try swimming with longer, more relaxed strokes like I normally swim because I was not up for puking in the pool so of course I missed the interval. Still, those times are fast for me and the woeful shape I'm in right now. I've been swimming mostly 1:46-1:48 for 100's on non-sprint sets so I was pleased. I was leading the lane too so there was no drafting.

I signed up for a Butterfly clinic next week, woe to my poor masters coach. We'll see how many grey hairs I can give her, my Butterfly is hilarious.