I had big plans for today, but, well, they didn't happen, mainly because halfway through the first 400, my body made it known that I had to go the bathroom. I pushed through it because we're limited to 50 minutes and I didn't want to waste any of it. At the end of the...

It was a beautiful day to swim. Sunny with puffy clouds. I'm sharing a lane still, but it works out. We can make them work. The warm up set was a bit amorphous as far as time goes due to sharing the lane. We can't have two people on the same wall in the same lane at...

Ah . . . The day of the month I struggle with the most. My breaststroke is so slow it’s on par with my kicking, but I do it anyway. It’s a challenge. Can I beat my last time? Will I get any better? So far, the answer has been no. Maybe next month. There’s always next...

As ever, Coach Bill gives us challenging sets. Rather than kick those last 100s, I swam backstroke as I knew I’d be riding 20 miles after the workout with my husband. I was right. We rode down to El Porto, had some lunch, and came home. Bill was trying to get me into...

I posted this a day late due to having editing deadlines. It was a good workout, and different. As you can see, I alternated backstroke technique and freestyle technique. The drills I used in the warmup set are the same ones I used in the main set, except I did the...

When I need to just chill and swim, this main set is one of my favorites. It’s all about pacing and relaxing into the stroke and just swimming, which was exactly what I needed to do today. Other than making the intervals, there was no pressure to push hard or sprint....

Tuesdays are the "fun" workout day. They're the days I do some wild and fun sets. Usually, I limit it to the warmup set, but, today, I extended it through the workout. And it was fun. Then putting the sprint at the end put it over the top. Today was also the first day...

My favorite stroke day of the month. When we compete again, I'll be swimming backstroke. I'm looking forward to it. I did swim Sunday with SCAQ. Coach Bill Bean gave us a tough set, but I waited too long to upload it and forgot the rest of the workout. Ah, well, I was...

I’ve started working out with SCAQ on Fridays as well at my local pool. The upside: a coach and my buddies. The downside: I don’t get in as many yards as I do when I’m alone. That being said, it is nice to add variety to my swim workouts. My lane was supposed to be...

A beautiful day for a swim. I worked on stroke technique today, more than I usually do on these days. I just felt I need more work. 50-minute swim workout, stroke technique 550 warmup (~8:00 min) Warmup set 2x (650 yds, 12:20 min) 7 x 50 on 1:00 1st 3 50s—25...