This week my #FaveWorkout was Tuesday’s swim workout. I was supposed to have gotten up early to swim in the morning before work, but I knew I had meetings all day and would potentially have the opportunity to swim over lunch. I decided to risk it, sleep in and hope for the best…a long enough break in my meeting to swim over lunch. Thankfully luck was on my side and I was given a 90 minute lunch break…just enough time to drive to the pool, complete my hour swim, quickly shower and head back to the location we were meeting at.
I ended up having a lane all to myself for the entire swim. I wasn’t entirely sure swimming at lunch would be in my favor as sometimes the lunch hour can mean a busy pool, but this was not the case on Tuesday. Thankfully my 2900 yard swim did not need a lot of equipment changes, so I was able to limit my breaks to what was scheduled and easily complete my swim in the allotted hour.
Ladder to 300
Warm-up: 300 swim, 4 x 100 drill (50 drill, 50 free)
Main Set: 2 x 150 (15 sec), 3 x 200 (20 sec), 2 x 250 build (20 sec), 1 x 300 race pace (15 sec), 3 x 100 race pace (20 sec)
Cool-down: 200 any stroke
I was very pleased with this workout…including breaks, I swam my 2900 yards at an average pace of 1:57/100. My form felt good…I felt fast in the water and felt like I could swim forever at this faster pace. There was lots of #swimlove with this workout 🙂 Bonus…I had an AWESOME run after my meetings. The kind of run where you feel on top of the world upon completion 🙂
What was your #FaveWorkout this week?
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Oh wow, so jealous of going that far! Awesome job!! And super bonus on the excellent run! Whohooo!! Those are the best!
Thanks Kelli 😉
Hmmm, your post prompted me to verify if the pool I swim in is a yard or meter pool. It’s a yard pool 😦 I’m short on my miles!!
Every little bit adds up 😉
Cool that your desired timing worked out in your favor! This is an interesting swim workout. I may have to give this one a try!
So far, my tempo run earlier this week has been my favorite, but I have a 50 mile ride and 10 mile run tomorrow and Sunday, so fingers crossed that these are good ones too! I have Sundays as the end of my training week. Have a great weekend!
Sunday’s are the end of my training week as well. I hope both of your remaining workouts are amazing!! 😉
Sounds like you had a great day! No real workouts for me this week with company visiting and our weekend getaway. I am heading to the water park at West Edmonton Mall this morning-does floating on a big tube in the wave pool count as a workout? I think YES!!
Sounds like a perfect workout to me Amy 😉
90 minute lunch on a school day is amazing!! Why does my school never do this 🙂
It was only because I was in a meeting all day. It definitely isn’t the norm 😢
Awesome that you got to sleep in and swim at lunch!! Great work out too!! I feel like an hour lunch is too long but too short for a work out!!
My favorite work out was today. A spin and we did a simulation of a crit race. We looked at normalized power instead of our average watts!! It was so hard but so awesome!! 🙂
I agree. An hour lunch is too short to do anything productive. I typically only get 30 minutes…as a teacher, it turns into 20 pretty quick. Nice work on the ride. I always look at normalized power. It is a more accurate representation of what you can really do outside on race day 😉
I should start looking at that! I didn’t really know what it meant until he explained it to us yesterday! It will be interesting to see what my normalized power is today outside!
It is always different for me when I ride outdoors vs indoors. I’ll be anxious to see how different it is for you.