OK, I admit, HR Masters is a great program. Very good coach that writes workouts that seem to go on forever but are rarely boring. And very fast swimmers in the pool - like 3 lanes of quality, fast, talented swimmers. It/They are kicking my booty. I have begun to question my fitness every time I show up because I simply have to work HARD to keep up! That's right, going anaerobic during warm-up. That makes for a LONG practice.
Granted, my fitness level should be a bit different now than when I first showed up in August. I mean, this is technically the off-season right? Ah yes, LSD in the pool (reminder: Long Slow Distance), I'm thinking nice long sets on a very reasonable and comfortable interval. But not for the serious Masters swimmers. Nope. Their season is about to begin and their intensity is ramping up. So I find myself in the middle of a brutal 4 x (5x100) set. ICK. The first set is breaststroke. WTF? I don't DO breaststroke, never have, never will. And I have a woman in my lane who can actually kick breaststroke with a board faster than I can swim it. Huh. Next set, thank goodness, freestyle. But did I see that interval correctly? By the end of the workout I can barely lift my arms out of the water and am trying to figure out if breaststroker chick will be offended when I ask her to blow dry my hair for me.....
But here's the good news (I think). I made all the intervals. And I didn't take any extra time on the wall. And I met one of the fast girls in my lane and maybe even made a new friend!! And, Tyler and PIC Son were there so it was a great morning.
Happy Training!!
2 comments:
Yea, that was a rather, ahhh, errr, fun?? workout today. So fun when he throws up the 2000 set and walks out the door. Way to keep on it, if you were looking around the pool like I was you could tell that a lot of folks ditched out on it.
Sorry I missed you in the locker room...sucks to be slow!
I tried to be that guy. Yes the one that says "I can swim tha interval" even thougth he never has even come close. 5x100 Free on 1:20. I said OK, took a deep breath and swam as fast as I felt I could hold. I came into the wall at 1:13-14.5, realized it took me 5 seconds to even take a breath and then proceeded to swim a 1:40 and finished by getting out of the pool and letting my piece of toast and peanut butter go to a new home. AHHHH I love Masters. The good end was I jumped in and finished the set with Sonja and we had a good time as the last two out of the pool. BOOO YAAAA
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