Wednesday 9/27/07 - Short but sweet

So its been a week since I blogged, but training wise I have been ok. Diet and P90X have been put on hold until Drew's parents leave.

This morning's workout was fantastic. We didn't go far, but I produced some eye-popping times for my standards:

SCM pool

Each swim should get faster:
500 w/u breath every 5th - get 400 split - 500 was 7:33, 400 was 6:00ish
8 X 25s kick stream line
400 swim breath every 3rd - get 300 split - 400 was 5:25ish, 300 was 4:00ish
8 X 25s kick stream line
300 swim working on turns - get 200 split - 300 was 3:50, 200 was 2:30
8 X 25s swim working on streamline and hard kicking
200 swim fast - get 100 split - 200 was FAST 2:18, 100 was 1:09
8 X 25s swim working on streamline and hard kicking
100 swim all out - 1:04
200 cool down
Total - 2500 meters

This set produced fast 200s and 100s. After going a somewhat easy 2:30 for the 200 on my 300, I was thinking a 2:23 or 2:25 would be good. So when I came in at the 100 at 1:09, I knew something good could come out of it. I pushed the 2nd 100 as hard as I could to finish in 2:18. Seeing how I was on the wall for 1-2 seconds, I'd say a 2:16. That converts to a 2:01 SCY or a 2:19 LCM. Damn! That is really fast for me. The 25s after the 200 were basically just a recovery. I knew that with the 2:18, I could get under 1:05. But immediately when I pushed off the wall, I felt the 200's results. That first stroke made me want to stop. I internally cried real briefly. But then I told myelf its just over a minute of pain. As I was going down the first 25 I saw something to my right. "Oh great," I thought, "Drew wants to race." Of course that made me have to work even harder, thus ever more pain. We flipped even at the 25, but by the 50 I had began to take off. The next 50 I felt like a spaz just trying to get to the wall as soon as I could. I finished in 1:04, which is good as well. I was really happy with this mornings workout.