Well, here's another plug for high heels. High for me, however, doesn't rate on the stiletto scale, so I'm thinking Kegels and dolphin kick for life.
According to plan, the tone of swim practices is changing. This mesocycle finds us moving away from longer controlled swims and emphasis on distance per stroke to a higher concentration of non-freestyle swimming, and a difference in our approach. Base is well past; we are now looking to increase speed, working towards peak performances either at Nationals or at Worlds.
♦ 600 free
♦ 300 choice drills (I did a mix of catch-up, zipper, fingertips in the water, and one arm fly)
♦ 14 x 75 — 50 choice hard, 25 free harder on 1:45 — my choice was 25 fly, 25 breast, repeating 1:15
♦ 10 x 25 free on :40 — keeping long strong stroke, but increasing turnover
Due to where I am in my personal cycle, I had to scoot to the loo before coaching the half hour of skills and drills, but the rest of the gang did 3 x 100 free on 1:50, hard. My total for the evening was 2,200 metres.
Oh, and just take a gander at our long range forecast ... five days of snow icons! Over the next 24 hours, 5 to 10 centimetres is predicted. Where on earth will we put it all??
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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5 comments:
Yeesh. More snow.
Melt season could have the creeks roarin'... and the white water up on the river!
More snow?!?
I like the instructions "hard" and "harder" for swimming!
Still not gonna wear heels! (except for rare special occasions) My calf muscles are tight enough as it is without keeping them artificially shortened all day!
Snow ... it just keeps coming, and coming ...
Jenny, yes. Hard. Harder. At least it didn't call for hardest!
Danielle, not a usual occurrence for me either!
it is unfathomable for me to consider that much snow and cold. My body is soooooo not aclimatized for that
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