Supplemented my Swim Gear

 I recently acquired new swim gear:  

• Speedo Pull Buoy
• Speedo Snorkel
• Speedo Training fins

I decided to put them to good use this morning.  Here is the workout:

300 Warmup

4 x 100's Kick with fins

500 Free w/snorkle

600 - 3 x 200's pull on 3:15

500 - 2 x 100 IM, 100 free, 2 x 100 IM

400 - 100 free, 100 kick, 100 breast, 100 back

300 cooldown

3000 yards total

Yesterday I felt some strange sensations in my shoulder which made me wonder if I'm aggravating my left rotator cuff.  Gotta be mindful of that.  But today's swim felt fine.  Got used to the snorkle, and really like it now. 

Saturday Morning Swim

 Last night I slept out on the trampoline with Cathi (and the dogs).  That was a lot of fun.  Comfortable temperature, and no mosquitos.  Set an alarm for 6 am and got to the pool right as they opened the door (7am on Saturdays).  Got in the following workout:

300 easy

800 - 4 x 200's Build on 4:00

600 - 6 x 100's odd back, even free

200 - 4 x 50's kick breast

900 - 12 x 75's fly/back/br, back/br/free, br/free/fly, free/fl/back

200 easy

3,000 yards total

Felt good.  After the swim, Cathi and I headed down to SLC for Annie May's funeral (Shirley's mom).  

8th swim since restarting

 Today I brought my new 10 pound brick to the pool to do a little video of my freestyle to see what I'm doing:  Here it is

300 Easy Warmup

1000 - 5 x 200's pull on 3:30

400 - 4 x 100's Odd Back, Even Free on 2:00

900 - 12 x 75 Rolling IM's:  25 fly/back/breast, 25 back/breast/free, 25 breast/free/fly, 25 free/fly/back

200 easy

2,800 yards total

Followed by 45 seconds of treading with a brick above water with two hands.  Going for 1 minute, but started cramping in my hamstrings.  Need to keep practicing this!

Felt strong during this workout.  It was a good one.

Descending work

 600 warmup - 400 IM, 200 kick with board

1000 - 2 sets of 5 x 100's pull descend 1-5 on 2:00 (1:32, 1:30, 1:28, 1:20, 1:18)

500 - 2 sets of 5 x 50's free (no paddles) descend 1-5 on 1:30 (44. 40. 38, 36, 35)

300 - 2 sets of 6 x 25's free descend 1-6 on :45 (:20 - :15)

400 - 2 x 200's easy cooldown

2,800 yards total

Feeling stronger and faster compared to last Monday, that's good.  I'm enjoying it and my arm is thanking me.  I've been nursing a very sore right arm with some serious Tennis Elbow. 

3s

 Today was a play on the number 3:

300 Choice

300 - 6 x 50's kick

3 sets of : 300 free, 200 IM, 100 Back or Free, 50 kick or breast

300 Cooldown

2,850 yards total

First official day of Northridge practice

 This morning I lifted BEFORE swimming. I followed the workout given to me from an app.  A bit of chest workout.  Here's my swim workout:

400 Choice

 2 x thru each stroke:

    100 Stroke, 50 kick, 50 free

400 - 4 x 100's pull desc 1-4 (1:32, 1:28, 1:25, 1:18)

200 - 4 x 50's sprint (38, 38, 39, 38)

200 Easy

2,800 yards total

Here is the Monday Motivation I'm putting out for the Northridge swimmers today.

Another Conference talk involving a Seventy who nearly drowned as a kid

 This morning I got up at 7 and went to Layton SnS for the following workout:

250 Choice Warmup

4 sets of: 

    200 pull, 2 x 100's free on 2:00, 2 x 50's kick (no board)

On each of the 200's go faster.  First 2 x 100's I landed on around 1:40, and the last 2 ended up landing on 2:24 which was pretty dang good given how slow I am.  Felt good about that.

At this time I saw Joe Linford get in and we shared a lane for the last bit was the drill/cooldown:

10 x 25's sculling with pull buoy.  Use just hands, no cheating with forearms.

250 choice cooldown

Total: 2,750

Went home and listened to the General Conference and as soon as I heard one of the Seventies from Chile, Elder Villar explain how he as a child followed his older brothers into the surf at the beach.  I knew where he was going with this story right away.  Another near-drowning story.  Sure enough, as expected he explained that he was overcome by the power of the water and was saved by his older brother just in the nick of time when he thought he was done for.  It amazes me how common this is in talks at Conference.  Reminds me that water safety and drownproofing are so important unless you want to tie it into a spiritual lesson and share it with people at Conference.  Talk Summary

IM day - 2500

 300 warmup 

1000 - 400 IM, 300 IM, 200 IM, 100IM rest 1:00 between each

Repeat 1000 set above, but kick on last 100 IM portion

200 free cooldown

2,500 yards

After this I immediately left for a meeting at DSD Kendall building where the new 50 M pool design was being discussed.  That should be pretty awesome if it gets approved by the board.  There are a lot of details to get through, but it was refreshing to hear that the priority is that this is a top-notch competition pool, and the attributes of the facility are to draw competitive swimming from all over and have this be the go-to for championship swimming.  

Embarrasing

 Today's workout was slightly longer than yesterday's and tougher.  It was quite clear today how slow I really am.  I was averaging 50 free in about :40 or more.  Terrible!  Embarrassingly slow.

400 warmup

3 x 50's backstroke

4 x 75's breast/free/breast

5 x 100's free descending (1:40, 1:30, 1:28, 1:25, 1:23)

6 x 150's pull freestyle paddles

400 IM easy + 100 IM easy

2,750 yards total

My upper back is also feeling it.  Today's workout was tough for me mentally.