I’m posting two workouts today since I forgot to post this one yesterday. For whatever reason, we were instructed to get out of the pool 5 minutes early. It was still a good workout. The breath control was easy as I just don’t kick. Perhaps that’s cheating, but it...

I swam next to a buddy today. It was a good swim. Although the yardage was less, in part because Clay likes to give us stroke tips. (He even recorded my stroke with comments. He’s good that way.) The 100s are the end are meant to be sprint-ish. I was happy to maintain...

There's a new guy who works at the pool. While nice, he's chatty and often starts the spiel they give before every hour and the next group that enters when the clock is chiming the hour. This means we get in late because we aren't walking in until after the hour. So,...

This is one of my favorite main sets. There’s a bit of variety, it pushes me, and I can sink into the meditative swim. I did battle a full goggle for the first 500 because I’m too stubborn to stop until I was done with the warmup. Perhaps that’s why I swam it a hair...

Tuesdays are my “fun” days. Well, really, every day I’m swimming is a fun day, but Tuesdays I do something a little different. The eggbeater was a little challenging because I was in the shallow end. Hands are out of the water, although just. Despite the longer...

Last Monday was the last day of the month. It would’ve been IM day, but I missed it. I’d thought it was fly, but no such luck. 🤪 It’s not a bad thing to do fly. It’s a painful thing, and, as the little, old lady I saw walking the hall at my mother’s nursing...

60-minute swim workout, SCAQ Sunday Coach Bill Bean 5 min warmup (350 yds) Warmup set 2x (800 yds, 11:30 min) 200 on 3:10 (no breathing from the flags to the wall) 2 x 50 on 1:00 (6 dolphin kick off the wall or 4 strokes before breath) 100 on 1:35 100 easy kick Main...

Swimming under Coach Clay is always interesting. As there are a lot of lanes on different intervals and there are many beginning swimmers he’s often giving advice to, we often wait for him to return to our lane. This is why you see a lot of easy 50s. It’s hard to sit...

I chose two different drills for this workout. I wanted to see which one worked the best (as in, which one improved my speed without any extra effort.) It’s still a bit of a toss up, but I think when I get the right timing for the side kicks, this helps me with the...

I swam with a friend today, which is always fun, but it’s hard because he was down at the other end of the lane. Since we hadn’t planned our sets beforehand, after each set, we had to swim to the “middle” of the pool to decide what we were going to do next. Also, he...