A new teammate and race pace Saturday

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A new teammate and race pace Saturday

Posted by Kevin Doak on Saturday at: 10:20pm (January 21st, 2012)

Welcome Scott!

This week we welcomed a new swimmer to the post-grad group at CW.  We'll call him "Scott".  A name he chose name because not a single English speaking person can pronouce his real name.  I vow to learn how to say his name before he leaves for his trials in China.  He's a very talented swimmer and I'm glad to have him on the team, not only because he will push us all to become better, but also because, like me, he is not cleared to swim with the college team.  Therefore, now I have a teammate who is required to swim with me in the diving well.  It makes practices a lot more tolerable.

Yet again, as usual, Saturday was "race pace".  Scott and I were given a hybrid between the MD (middle distance) and the S (Sprint) set.  I did quite poorly on the MD set which was a broken 200.  Far beyond my normal race distance of 50-100y/m.  Both the MD an S set was 3 rounds.  It is written below.  The first MD round was pathetic for me.  I started out with a :43 second 75y back, followed by a :29 second 50y back, followed by a :30 second 50y back, followed by a :14 second 25y back.  It was embarrassing.  Those are really bad times for me.  Luckly we switched to the Sprint set for the last two rounds which I did much better on.  I began with a :24.5 in my 50 Back, followed by three 12 second 25y backstrokes.  Not great, but respectable.  The last round was with fins.  I tore it up.  My 50y back was a 20.2 with a few 10-point-low 25y swims afterward.  I'm contemplating attending the Harper Creek Masters Meet in the morning.  We'll see how I feel in the morning.  I'm VERY sore from the week of training.  I'm relieved I had some great times last weekend, I feel no pressure to perform in the near future and I can focus on training!

WORKOUT:

3 x 
(sprint main set)

50y Dive Green @ 1:00
3 x 25y Push Green @ :30

 

3 x
(middle distance main set)

75y Dive Purple @ 1:00
50y Push Purple @ 1:00
25y Push Green @ :30 

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