Friday, March 27, 2009

Pool time - the taper continues

With the pool closed all last week I have been in the water a lot this week. I really felt strong yesterday at lunch. I followed the workout as prescribed and everything just clicked -

Swim Endurance
45 minutes - 2500 yards
Long easy swim.
Warm Up: 400 swim
Main set:
400 pull
400 w/paddles
300 swim
300 pull
300 w/paddles
6x50 Fast on 60"
Cool Down: 100

Easy stuff. This morning I was back in the pool and did 1 x 1500 yards. Not my best time but it was okay (24:43 - best is 23:59).

I want (and NEED) to get some open water swimming but the weather here has not cooperated - big time thunderstorms and stuff. Maybe this weekend.

2 comments:

Missy said...

Taper and some rest are good things. Nice workout. If you don't get into open water, do you have some peeps to swim in the pool with? A great drill is to swim shoulder to shoulder the length of the pool and do that a few times to help navigate bodies.

TRI-james said...

The OWS is mainly for the sighting. I will get in the lake this week - if nothing else the day before the race will work.