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Swim Workout Today

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Swimming PoolFabulous workout this morning and I just had to share.

I liked the variety and the lengths of the swims.

Swim Workout, March 18, 2013

4 x 100 (kick, swim, scull, swim)
4 x 75 (drill, swim, drill)
4 x 50 Kick (easy down, fast back)
3 x 200 free
8 x 25 (two laps of each stroke)
3 x 150 free
8 x 25 (two laps of each stroke)
3 x 100 free
8 x 25 (two laps of each stroke)

Great workout and great start to my week.

5:30am is reeeeaaaaally early to get out of my cozy bed, but I suppose its worth it.

I really should try to get to the pool more.

Back in the Water Finally!!

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So, its been a whole month since I have been to a swim workout.

The thing about swimming is that if you get out of your routine of waking up at 5:30am to put on a swimsuit and step out onto the freezing cold pool deck where ice covered kickboards are waiting for you, its REALLY difficult to hit the reset button and start again.

But, I did it this morning.  The temperature was 37 degrees and the pool deck felt colder than that, but once I dove into the warm pool water and started swimming, all was better.  It really is just getting to the pool and diving in the water that is the very difficult part.  The swimming part is great.

Its such an exercise in mental toughness.  Luckily, I also have Mountain Man who set his alarm as well to make sure that I got up this morning to go to practice to break my stalemate.

I feel so much better, and will hopefully get back to my 3-4 workouts per week starting next week.

This workout was much more focused on stroke drill than yardage, which was good timing for me since I’d been out of the water for so long.

Swim Workout, December 29, 2012
10 minutes of:
75 free, 50 back down, free back
20 minutes of:
100 free
3×50 of dolphin kick on your back down, breastroke on the way back
4×75 of 50 free, then 25 of kickboard stroke drill where you put the kickboard under your feet and do breastroke pull

I did not keep track of the total yardage, since we did the workout in terms of time periods.

Yay, I’m back in the water.

The Pouring Rain Swim Workout

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Yes, it was dumping rain this morning when my iphone alarm went off at 5:25am.  Did I let this stop me from going to swimming you ask?  No siree.

I threw my wonderful North Face long coat on, my black and white checkered rainboots and headed for my car.

The smell of the air when you are experiencing your first rain in about six months is wonderful.  Its like a mixture of pine and fresh lake water.  I just love it.

I live in California, so our pools are outdoors.  I’m an outdoorsy kind of gal.  I have swum in many indoor pools, having gone to college in the East, but it just is not the same experience.

When it is raining, its even a more fun experience.  My friends always ask “How can you get up so early to swim when its raining?”  “Are you nuts?”

The thing is, you’re already wet. Duh.  Its neat to see the rain clouds and feel the rain falling on your arms as you bring your arm out of the water to take a stroke.

Anyhoo, here are the details of today’s workout…..

Swim Workout for October 22, 2012
400 swim
200 Kick Swim
8×75 on 1:15
3x {200 pull on 3:00, 2×100 on 1:30}
8×25 choice
Total: 2600 yards

I feel so much better having swum this morning.  Mountain Man always sends me a text telling me he’s proud of me when I get up to go to workout.  This morning, he said he was SUPER proud of me this time.  🙂

Love, love, love the rain. We turned off our sprinklers….yay! I do not have to stress about my newly planted vinca minor flowers getting enough water.

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