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Swim Update

Tuesday I caved on my "no exercise for 2 weeks" and went to masters swim practice at the Y.  I was going crazy and feeling beyond fat and lazy so had to do something and figured swimming is by far the most harmless of my choices.

About halfway through practice, I realized it was possible I was swimming fast for me.  Really fast.  I was swimming my "easy" 200s on 3:00 and my hard ones on 2:50.  Really?  My fastest 100 I'd ever recorded before that was 1:25. 

I guess a little time off might have done this body some good.  I hadn't swam in probably 3 weeks.  I figured some of it was "beginner's luck" for my comeback.  I also ended up swimming 3500yds for the workout and it wasn't that bad at all (definitely the farthest I have swam at once since IMFL in November...I think I had a few workouts just over 3000 before Lonestar, but certainly not 3500+).  I was going for 4000, but my left calf had other plans after my push off the wall around 3400.  I let my calf win and hopped on out shortly after - I was plenty satisfied with my effort for the day.

I went back to the Y on Friday to see if I was, in fact, still "fast" or if it was just a fluke.  Wow.  It wasn't.  I swam a 100 in 1:21, and a 300 (a distance I have regularly used in the past to guage my progress) in 4:25...and that one had a stop in the middle because I thought I was done and came up and looked at my watch and realized I had only gone 250...gees...so I went right back to it.  I guess that one would have been a few seconds faster had I not stopped, but I of course didn't feel the need to do another 300 at eyeball busting pace to find out.

For comparison, my 300yd time was 4:39 last year and 4:28 in 2008 (see these old posts for talks about those times).

So I know these times are nothing for a lot of people, but they are really the first progress I've seen in anything for a while now.  I'll take it.  Of course this comes at a time when I think it couldn't matter less how fast I'm swimming considering I don't have a race on the calendar for months.

I'm not sure if my "return" to biking and running will go exactly the same.  Something tells me I may be looking a bit more like this before too long:

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greyhound said…
"I want what she's having."
June 8, 2010 at 3:28 PM
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