Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Kicking off week 9 in the pool
This week's schedule is looking pretty light. I think the coaches are having us taper off a bit in preparation for our trial weekend next week. Not this weekend, but next, we will be heading down to the location of the Wildflower Tri to practice doing the actual course over two days. That should be great!
In any case, today was my first day back at the pool in over a week. It was a nice change from swimming in the bay. I wound up doing 2350M (1.71 Zacklongs) at a pretty good (for me) pace. I tried to increase my speed a bit, but every time I pulled harder with my arms, I felt like I needed too much air. I also tried breathing less often and pulling less hard. All-in-all I was unable to make a serious dent in my overall average lap time which is still hovering at 90 seconds/50 meters. One note however is that this includes all of my rest time, in other words I was in the pool for 71 minutes and did 47 laps. 71*60/47 = 90 seconds.
In any case, today was my first day back at the pool in over a week. It was a nice change from swimming in the bay. I wound up doing 2350M (1.71 Zacklongs) at a pretty good (for me) pace. I tried to increase my speed a bit, but every time I pulled harder with my arms, I felt like I needed too much air. I also tried breathing less often and pulling less hard. All-in-all I was unable to make a serious dent in my overall average lap time which is still hovering at 90 seconds/50 meters. One note however is that this includes all of my rest time, in other words I was in the pool for 71 minutes and did 47 laps. 71*60/47 = 90 seconds.
// posted by Zack @ 5:43 PM 
