Swimming (Hundred Times)

Today's swim was probably one of the fastest, highest-heart rate swim I've done. I knew I only had 1,550 m (rather, yards) to swim, so I tried to make the best of it. The focus of the technique parts was swimming uphill—mainly, keeping my legs and hips high instead of dragging. That was tough and something I must continue working on!

• SWU3T 300 wu (4-5 RPE) technique
• SDS3 8x25@10sec RI drills
• SBI3T 4x100@5sec RI (6-7 RPE) technique
1. 1:31.19
2. 1:34.70
3. 1:34.81
4. 1:36.07
• SKS2 8x25@15sec RI kick
• SPS2 6x25@10sec RI pull
• SCD3T 300 cd (4-5 RPE) tech.

This took me a total of 35 minutes; I estimated 30-45 minutes when I told Will the times of this month's workouts, so I'm pretty happy!

Hundred (yards) times look like this.

• February 3: 1:35, 1:41, 1:44, 1:45, 1:43, 1:45, 1:47, 1:44, 1:45, 1:44, 1:44, 1:42
• February 19: 1:34, 1:35, 1:33, 1:34, 1:37, 1:36, 1:35, 1:37, 1:35, 1:38, 1:37, 1:37
• March 10: 1:28, 1:30, 1:32, 1:33, 1:34, 1:33, 1:35, 1:35, 1:32, 1:36, 1:35, 1:32
• April 14: 1:34, 1:36, 1:36, 1:37, 1:36, 1:36
• April 17: 1:38, 1:40, 1:42, 1:41
• April 21 (200-300-400-500 per-100 averages): 1:37; 1:42; 1:45; 1:47
• May 12: 1:42, 1:42, 1:42, 1:41, 1:41, 1:38
• May 19 (200-300-400-500 per-100 averages): 1:33; 1:35; 1:40; 1:41
• July 12: 1:34.72, 1:37.39, 1:37.65, 1:38.46, 1:38.86, 1:39.41
• September 16: 1:31.19; 1:34.70; 1:34.81; 1:36.07

My average pace in races is just about 2+ minutes. All the times above are from a yardage pool, and I might need to start swimming at MFY to get an accurate per-100 time in the pool and then go from there.

When I got home, I made and ate a banana/protein smoothie. My stomach is currently reminding me why I swim in the morning; taking in a lot of water is not smart, and I think I took in even more because I was thinking about swimming downhill. Note to self: This about that also next time!