07/25/08

LCM
500 swim
4 x 50 K
4 x 50 drill
4 x 50 swim
All @ 3rd person RI
5 x 100 descend. I went 1:16 on the last one!
4 x 200 (25 stroke/150 swim/25 stroke) @ 3:10. I did breast, went about 3 min on all
3 x 300 @ 4:40 descend. I went 4:20, 4:12, 4:05.
200 ez
200 breaststroke
400 kick
300 breaststroke
200 kick
100 breast
150 free
150 free
50 stroke
100 IM
150 free
4 x 200 backstroke @ 3:15. I went 2:55 on #3, 3:00 on #4. Didn't see the times for the first 2, but they were faster.
300 ez

6400m

I did the first workout, did a bunch of kicking and breaststroke, and then jumped in for the last 20 minutes of the second workout.

My new front crawl stroke is awesome. I love it. The whole time that I was doing it, I just thought about poking my extension out in front of me instead of rolling to it. I also really worked on keeping my right arm close in when I breathed to the left. The best part was that when I wanted to go fast, my turnover was much better and I could feel that I was moving in a more linear fashion. I knew it was going well when I went a 1:16 on that last 100 descend. Then, my times on the set of 300s were by far the best free swims I've done all summer in practice. This after being pretty beat up from all of yesterday's open water shenanigans.

The video analysis session was the best thing I've done for my swimming in a long time.