Sunday 1/21/08 - The Seed Has Been Planted

First off, all I did was swim today. Drew and I were supposed to go on a bike ride, but he was feeling tired and so we decided to not do it. I guess I could have done it on my own, but I didn't. My workout was brief, as I only had time for about an hour, since I was hosting a coaches meeting and wanted to get breakfast going.

I went about 2700 yards. I think it was:
500 w/u
8 X 50s drill down/swim back - 400 yards

Main Set:
3 X 3 X 100s descend on 1:40.

8 X 75s kick
6 X 50s Under/Over

Total 2700 yards

The main set was good, but a tad frustrating. I was sharing the lane but he was only going 5 seconds behind me. The problem with that is, if he goes out slighty faster than me on the first 50, he's caught enough drag to to just use my wake to come back without trying as hard, and thus finish only 2 seconds behind me, instead of 5. I think from now on, unless we have a ton of swimmers in the lane, no matter what, I want my lane going 10 seconds behind each other. Bixler and I did that yesterday, and I think it worked great. Plus its mentally tough if one goes only 5 behind and then is right on your ass. Its like go ahead or BACK OFF!! But anyway, that was my venting.

After workout, the coaches got together to discuss a few things, one of which is a new IGLA training program. There are about 20 of us who have committed to this. Dr. Tom has volunteered to write up a program and coach us 3 nights a week (Mon, Tues and Thurs). We also have to commit to going at least once on the weekend. I'm excited for this, because its going to get a lot of pain laners back to swimming together again. We have all been sporatic and swimming on separate days lately. Sometimes there is only one of us or two, and the workouts just aren't as fun. So look for myself, Drew, Kurt, Ken, Peder, Chris Z, BGS, Jeff Liu and some others all swimming together again. It will be a lot of fun to have all of us in the pool and help each other out. It will be good for me, because there will always be someone there to push you when you think you can back off. And no one wants to be the wimp. It will be like the Univ of Michigan where all the big name swimmers train together (but of course on a much lower level!). I'm excited for this to begin and really hope that not only myself, but all my teammates can really benefit with this program. Wish us luck!!