Sorry to hear that the pool was bath water. Although I understand why many managers keep their pool on the warmer side, to me, if it's a lap pool, make it a lap pool, which means keeping it under 80 degrees. The two pools I frequent here in Southern California have a separate family pool for people to float, bring kids or whatever, while they keep the main pool for its intended use. Looks like your back half 200s were in the 2:40 or faster range. That's still pretty good. And the 50's on the prior workout are pretty quick too.
@Michael, thanks. Always a struggle with hot pools, I always second guess my swim ability first before I realize that it is the heat.
You are going to laugh about this one, gets better. This maybe worth posting in the dashboard.
Road took me to Stamford CT, found YMCA, went to swim, got in, got out. The water was measured at 88F, kid you not. Wow, that was dangerous. I wonder how many people realize that there is no serious swimming occurring in anything over 82F at best. Most competition and serious training pools are kept 78F-80F, no more.
This was funny as they all look at me like, this dude must be crazy as he cannot make up his mind if he is swimming or not. There were elderly walking in it, you know how bad it is than.
Had two swims since last post. Both in my usual SCM pool with good water temp so outcomes were more predictable. Fatigue has also been lower so I was able to crank out some decent swimming.
On Sunday the MS involved 4 repeats of 300@4:45 200@3:30 100@1:45, sliding all out effort each set from 300 down. I managed a 300 in 4:01, my PR from last year by 17sec. rest of the practice was ok. lack of VO2max work and lactate tolerance for me shows in all out times slowing down significantly after that effort. Will address that much more in the next training cycle.
Haha, I love this discussion of pool temperatures. The pool where I swim in Chicago is a 20-yd YMCA pool that is 90% kids classes. The target, as published, is 83.5 degrees. Freakin' warm. Now maybe I can blame the temp for why I suck at swimming!! I never thoguht of that before!!. The lap swim times are 5:30-9:30am, lunch hour, and 9-10pm. So I swim at 9pm. It is the only thing I can do.
Ironically I take my 2.5 and 5.5 year olds to swim classes on the weekend, and the place we go is a university athletic center where the pool is 90% lap swim in a proper length (25 meter) and the water is something like 78 degrees. For the younger one I have to get in the pool and carry her around for half an hour. If you think I freeze my ass off, think about these kids who weigh 30-35 lbs. They are blue by the end of the lesson. I would join there for lap swim but the YMCA is literally 3 blocks from my house.
In any case, I'm late posting but I did manage to fit in a swim at 9pm on Monday. I did the Week 2 Friday HIM Adv workout. And I "rounded up" the 50's to 60 given the 20-yd pool situation...
Overall 2680 yards in 48:06 (1:48/100).
- 400 warmup: 7:00 (1:45/100)
MS1: 200(10), 300(20), 400(30), 300(30), 200(30):
- paces/100yd 1:40, 1:43, 1:45, 1:45, 1:46
- I was supposed to be t-pace is (1:45 for me) on the 200/300/400 then t-pace minus someting on the 300/200, so I didn't really hit the targets. I don't really know much about swimming so pacing seems a difficult concept. I generally have three speeds -- recovery, "normal", and hard
MS2: 8x60 with odds fast and evens easy
- paces/100yd for the odds 1:35, 1:42, 1:45, 1:43
- paces/100yd for the evens 2:02, 2:07, 2:12, 2:18
Well I have racked up a lot of workouts in the last 24 hours. After the 60' run and 75' bike last night, I hopped in the pool this morning and repeated the workout I did on Monday night (see post just above).
This time I covered the same 2680 yds in 47:16, so 50 seconds faster (0:02/100yd). Not bad I guess.
- 400 warmup: 6:55 (1:44/100)
MS1: 200(10), 300(20), 400(30), 300(30), 200(30):
- paces/100yd 1:44, 1:47, 1:45, 1:45, 1:38
- This time my last 2 were indeed faster than the first 3, per the workout instructions. Although with t-pace at 1:45, I again did not really "hit the numbers". But I am just learning...
MS2: 8x60 with odds fast and evens easy
- paces/100yd for the odds 1:32, 1:42, 1:42, 1:42
- paces/100yd for the evens 1:57, 2:02, 2:05, 2:00
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Looks like your back half 200s were in the 2:40 or faster range. That's still pretty good.
And the 50's on the prior workout are pretty quick too.
@Michael, thanks. Always a struggle with hot pools, I always second guess my swim ability first before I realize that it is the heat.
You are going to laugh about this one, gets better. This maybe worth posting in the dashboard.
Road took me to Stamford CT, found YMCA, went to swim, got in, got out. The water was measured at 88F, kid you not. Wow, that was dangerous. I wonder how many people realize that there is no serious swimming occurring in anything over 82F at best. Most competition and serious training pools are kept 78F-80F, no more.
This was funny as they all look at me like, this dude must be crazy as he cannot make up his mind if he is swimming or not. There were elderly walking in it, you know how bad it is than.
Had two swims since last post. Both in my usual SCM pool with good water temp so outcomes were more predictable. Fatigue has also been lower so I was able to crank out some decent swimming.
On Sunday the MS involved 4 repeats of 300@4:45 200@3:30 100@1:45, sliding all out effort each set from 300 down. I managed a 300 in 4:01, my PR from last year by 17sec. rest of the practice was ok. lack of VO2max work and lactate tolerance for me shows in all out times slowing down significantly after that effort. Will address that much more in the next training cycle.
Yesterday's swim:
WU
200sw
200k
200pull
200IM drill
TR
4x50@1:15 finger drag drill
MS
8x200@3:45 odds free/ evens IM with zoomers
times: 2:56 3:06 2:55 3:06 2:53 3:06 2:52 3:06
4x100@3:00 all out
times: pretty poor 1:13 1:19 1:21 1:22
200 as 50bk/50br
CD
200sw
3400SCM in 70min, dun.
Haha, I love this discussion of pool temperatures. The pool where I swim in Chicago is a 20-yd YMCA pool that is 90% kids classes. The target, as published, is 83.5 degrees. Freakin' warm. Now maybe I can blame the temp for why I suck at swimming!! I never thoguht of that before!!. The lap swim times are 5:30-9:30am, lunch hour, and 9-10pm. So I swim at 9pm. It is the only thing I can do.
Ironically I take my 2.5 and 5.5 year olds to swim classes on the weekend, and the place we go is a university athletic center where the pool is 90% lap swim in a proper length (25 meter) and the water is something like 78 degrees. For the younger one I have to get in the pool and carry her around for half an hour. If you think I freeze my ass off, think about these kids who weigh 30-35 lbs. They are blue by the end of the lesson. I would join there for lap swim but the YMCA is literally 3 blocks from my house.
In any case, I'm late posting but I did manage to fit in a swim at 9pm on Monday. I did the Week 2 Friday HIM Adv workout. And I "rounded up" the 50's to 60 given the 20-yd pool situation...
Overall 2680 yards in 48:06 (1:48/100).
- 400 warmup: 7:00 (1:45/100)
MS1: 200(10), 300(20), 400(30), 300(30), 200(30):
- paces/100yd 1:40, 1:43, 1:45, 1:45, 1:46
- I was supposed to be t-pace is (1:45 for me) on the 200/300/400 then t-pace minus someting on the 300/200, so I didn't really hit the targets. I don't really know much about swimming so pacing seems a difficult concept. I generally have three speeds -- recovery, "normal", and hard
MS2: 8x60 with odds fast and evens easy
- paces/100yd for the odds 1:35, 1:42, 1:45, 1:43
- paces/100yd for the evens 2:02, 2:07, 2:12, 2:18
C/D: 400
- 7:28 (1:52/100)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/83164389
Well I have racked up a lot of workouts in the last 24 hours. After the 60' run and 75' bike last night, I hopped in the pool this morning and repeated the workout I did on Monday night (see post just above).
This time I covered the same 2680 yds in 47:16, so 50 seconds faster (0:02/100yd). Not bad I guess.
- 400 warmup: 6:55 (1:44/100)
MS1: 200(10), 300(20), 400(30), 300(30), 200(30):
- paces/100yd 1:44, 1:47, 1:45, 1:45, 1:38
- This time my last 2 were indeed faster than the first 3, per the workout instructions. Although with t-pace at 1:45, I again did not really "hit the numbers". But I am just learning...
MS2: 8x60 with odds fast and evens easy
- paces/100yd for the odds 1:32, 1:42, 1:42, 1:42
- paces/100yd for the evens 1:57, 2:02, 2:05, 2:00
C/D: 400
- 7:08 (1:47/100)
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/83658876