Have a great swim this weekend Koren (and it was fun hanging out and lounging in the pool last weekend)! I am, unfortunately, not doing any stand alone swims this summer but am doing the 1500m swim leg of a triathalon team Aug 7 in Ashville. Thanks for the workout posts Franny. I wish I had some to contribute but I have been only swimming sporatically with pretty boring swims. The last two weeks I have done a 500 warm up, 8 x 100s then whatever drills/kick to fill up to a mile. I tried the 100s on different intervals and liked it which got me on the kick I just posted. It's going to be a pretty untrained swim!

I don't know how to use blogs, so lets see if this posts! :) I signed up for a one mile open water swim on July 24 at Jordan Lake. I am also doing the swimming leg of a relay triathlon team in September. We will see how it goes! Going to use the workout suggestions to get in shape.

Meet Season is Upon Us!

Hi Ladies,

Meet season is sneaking up on us. I was talking to Koren yesterday and she said that the Eastern Component of our "National Team" here is deciding on what race to do, post it when you do!

Teresa and I have decided to do the following races:

Bare Bones 1 Miler at the end of June
Bare Bones 2 Miler at the end of July
Boulder Reservoir 2.4 Miler beginning of September.

And in between Teresa will show her striding off at the Boulder Stroke and Strides on Thursday's, I will be there with cowbells after the swim as she rocks the swim and scares swimmers attempting to do that thing called running.

Franny

How are things going?

Hey Ladies, I was doing backstroke this morning and was thinking about how you were doing and how your swimming is going?

Franny

Great Test Set for the Season

Hi Ladies, Give this goal set a try. You can incorporate it once a week or every other.

2 x 100 (@ 2:15 enjoy)
2 x 100 (@ 2:00)
2 x 100 (@ 1:55)
2 x 100 (@ 1:50)
and so forth
do this until you can't hold the interval.

The reason this is a great test set is that as the season goes on, you can:

1. see how much faster you can hold
2. see if you can start on a faster interval and how fast you can get starting with less rest
3. see if you can hold faster 100's quality (maintaining a Distance Per Stroke goal (DPS)

Have fun! Share your accomplishments and your goal. Today we ended on 1:35 because, well, 14 x 100's seemed like enough as a starting point!

Go the Distance. Go a Mile!

Workout of the day

400 choice
3 x ( 2 x 25, 100, 2 x 25, 100)

1st round of 25's: shark fin
2nd round of 25's: 3L/3R/3Together
25's on 30
100's easy on 1:45 or 2 minutes

4 x 4 x 25's

Each round is IM order all drill
2L/2R
Switching L Drill
fast hands breast
3/4 catch up.

on 30

Have fun!

2000 yard workout: Choose your Own Adventure

Here is a great workout, with two variations, that we did today.

4 x 200


Choose your Own Adventure:

50 Free, 50 Breast (switch to other non-free if desired), 50 almost catch up, 50 build

4 x (4 x 50 and a 100 Free)

4 x 50 on 55: Free/Back
4 x 100 on 15 seconds rest

OR

400 (30 seconds rest)
300 (20 seconds rest)
200 (10 seconds rest)
100

What have you girls been doing?!