One Hour Postal Swim

Swam 3200 yards in an hour today as part of the postal swim where you swim and are timed for each 50 yards, then your results are sent in along with everyone else swimming in the country.

I swam easy the whole time.  My ending heart rate was 108.

Next year I will go harder and farther.

3200 yards is 1.8 miles.

Master's Swim

Swam, getting better at turns

Masters

Swam, worked on IM turns

Master's Swim

Swam today, worked on the turns more.  They moved me out of the slow lane today which is somewhat of an achievement.  At the end I did a 100 IM against my friend Paul and just beat him, coming in at 1:34.  My transitions are weak between strokes.  If i work on those I can pick up some time, plus I need to improve my breaststroke.

Master's Swim

Swam tonight and did two 100 IMs, one in 1:35 and 1 in 1:38.These were toward the end of the 3000 yard workout.  I was feeling very tired tonight and could not catch my breath that well.  Felt a little better at the end and did some good flip turns in the final freestyle sets.

Master's Swim

Swam today.  Did a timed 100 IM in 1:33.

Master's Swim

Swam at night, just me and the coach.  We worked on flip turns. A good workout.

Masters Swim

Did the regular session and then afterwards stayed and swam 10-200 yard sets on 4 minutes.  During the regular session we did some speed drills that required us to go all out at 25, ezy swim, all out at 50, easy swim, all out at 75, easy swim.  Only problem for me is if I truly go all out,, then I have no energy to repeat it.  By the time we got to the 75, I was just swimming.

Am thinking about doing the Westport swim meet on February 2.  It is a long way to drive.  If I go, I will do the 50 yard free, 200 yeard free and 100 IM.

I have been practicing my IM and am getting better.  I am thinking about doing the 25 butterfly without a breath.  I go really fast when I am not breathing, and when I do breath, I feel lke I am coming to a standstill.

Also, I finially got a real racing swimsyiut and have been using it this week.  I definately feel faster.

Masters Swim

Did the swim.

Master's Swim

Swam today and then went back to pool with Zoey tonight and worked on flip turns.

Wilton Masters Swim Meet 1-10-2014

I did my first swim meet in 45 years today.  Down in Wilton at their Y.  It was a lot of fun.

I swam the 50 meter free first.  I tried to have a plan, but just found myself swimming.  Toward the end I went into my big kick and finished strong.  I think I should have started it sooner.  I won my heat and finished with what I thought was 37 something, but when the final results came out it was 35.71.  That translates into a 31.91 for a 25 yard.   My previous best 25 yard with a stop watch was 33 something, so it shows I am still getting faster.

I think if I had pressed hard sooner, I could have been even faster.  I also need to get a real bathing suit and learn how to do a flip turn.  Anyway, I am off to an auspicious start.  I was racing against people who have been swimming all their lives.  I came in 3 out of 3 in my age group, just missing nipping number two by a split second.  I would like to get under 30 seconds for 25 yard.

The other races I did was the 50 backstroke, the 100 IM and swam the anchor of the 200 medley relay.

The back stroke I did in 51.24.  I felt like I was going fast, but the winners were way faster.  I was getting lots of water in my mouth from all my kicking and arm moving.

I almost missed the 100 IM.  The events go very quickly.  I did it in 1:44.26, which was good considering the best I had done in the 25 yard pool was 1:45.  I had some transition problems on the turns and my breaststroke sucks.  I finished strong with the free.

Then I did a relay shortly after.  There were only two teams in the heat, and the other team was way ahead by the time I got to swim.  I found out my time was 39.something, which was slower than my earlier, which I can attribute to being tired, I guess or no longer racing anyone, but I felt like I was going fast.

One thought I had standing on the block was compared to all the triathlons and running races and open water swims, all I had to do was swim 25 meters turn around and come back and I was done.  Not bad.

Still I was very tired when I got home.

Anyway, very positive experience, gave me lots of things to work on.  I learned a lot watching all the strong swimmers.  I am grateful for finding the Master’s program and the great coaches who are helping me.  One of them, Galen, told me she was very proud of my progress and even gave me a Masters team shirt to welcome me to the team.

There is another meet in February, but it is down in Westport, so I am not certain I will go, but maybe I will take off work.

Meet results 

Master's Swim

Swam.

This was my last swim until the Meet on Sunday.

I have signed up for the 50 Free, 50 Backstroke, and 100 IM and hope to also swim in one or both of the relays.

I will try to swim the 50 as fast as I can.  I am a little worried about it being 50 meters instead of 50 yards.  Not certain why.  I am haven't decided on a strategy other than not doing a flip turn.  Not certain if I will go all out from the start and try to hold on, or just swim the first length hard and then pour it on on the homestretch.

The 100 IM is so I can say I did the IM.  I can do 25 of the butterfly, although it tires me out.  I can catch my breath on the backstroke.  My breast stroke is pretty bad, and then I will just leg it home on the free.

The back will be an adventure. I think I swim it okay, but not certain how my speed compares.

Master's Swim

Swam

Master's Swim

Swam

Masters

Swam again today.  Am getting better at Butterfly. We finished with everyone going 25 off the blocks as fast as they could with a 25, then 75 slow.  I kicked butt on the 25, but could barely do the next 25 i was so tired.

Need to work on and commit to doing flip turns.

Master's Swim

Did the swim.  was tired after not being in water for almost a week.