Today’s swim
I’ve done my swim session today, the second of the week. And I am feeling shattered after it. It was only 3.7k but I did put my heart and soul into it.
Today’s session allows me to swim short, fast intervals. The main set is 3 x 10 x 100m, with paddles and pull buoy. After each 100m I get 10s rest. After each 10 x 100m I get an extra minute. Excluding the 10s rest on the last 100m of each set, I did it in 17:12, 17:09 and 17:34 (last week: 17:20, 17:30 and 17:36). Before last week, I had been doing them on 1:50′s per the pool’s clock. Last week, like this week, I used my watch - so some of the improvement is probably because I am now used to swim this way.
I found the last 10x 100m really hard. My arms and upper body just could not get me through the water quick enough. It was more an issue with my muscles rather than my aerobic system. Although as these were “hard” 100m’s I was very out of breath at the end of each 100m.
This evening I’ll do a 90 minute negative split ride. Maybe on the turbo or perhaps on a spin bike at the gym. Not sure yet. It’s not going to be outside today because there is still lots of snow. I couldn’t even drive up to my house the normal way this afternoon and had to reverse back and go a different way.