Blog | Marci Baun

55-minute swim workout, SCAQ Sunday, 11-14-21

The title is a lie. Our coach was a few minutes late and the facility wouldn't let us in until she arrived. We actually swam 51 minutes. Honestly, this irritated me. I don't like it when the facility doesn't let us in so that we can get the entire 55 minutes, and I...

55-minute swim workout, mixed yardage pull Saturday, 11-13-21

This broken toe has put a cramp in my swim style. LOL It's hard to sprint using a pull buoy. All of these intervals are based on me using a pull buoy. I do seem to be getting faster . . . sometimes, but I really just can't sprint. This has shown me just how much I...

55-minute swim workout, Friday sprint/pull, 11-12-21

I was unsure how a sprint workout would pan out. And, well, I finished it. LOL I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to pull all of the hundreds at my normal 100 interval, although some of the hundreds were touch and go, but some were pretty fast. If the staff...

55-minute swim workout, Veteran’s Day pull, 11-11-21

Swimming was longer than usual today. Someone in the previous session threw up in the pool. (Ew!) They had to clean it out and shock the pool. So, I waited another hour before getting in. I still managed a decent set. A little different, but I'm missing my regular...

55-minute swim workout, Wednesday distance pull day, 11-10-21

As you can see, I'm settling into these pull workouts. This is day 2, and I was pleasantly surprised at my pace and how easy it was. It's still not the speed as when I kick, but I dropped 20 seconds from yesterday's warmup, all of the 200s were under 3:00. Sometimes,...

55-minute swim workout, Tuesday pull workout, 11-9-21

Now that I have a broken toe, I've decided that I'll be doing mostly pull swim workouts for the first week or so to help with the healing. (I'm concerned kicking will reinjure it.) As I rarely swim with a pull buoy, I wasn't sure what my speed was going to be. Some...

55-minute swim workout, SCAQ Sunday, 11-7-21

Normally, on Sunday, I swim at another facility, but that pool is closed for a private event. 🙁 If I'd swam at my regular Sunday facility, I wouldn't have a broken toe. That's right, I have a broken toe. How? It didn't happen during swimming, but rather during the...

55-minute swim workout, Friday sprint day, 11-5-21

This was a hard workout. As I was saying on Wednesday, I think I'm a better distance swimmer than sprinter. I seem to relax into the zen of swimming with distance. With sprinting, I get all tense. Or, maybe, that was just today. Anyway, the intent for the intervals of...

55-minute swim workout, Thursday stroke technique, 11-4-21

The focus today was on freestyle stroke technique and connecting the hips/core to the catch. I was watching a video this morning of Jason Lezak swimming that was specifically talking about this. There weren't any drills connected to this, so I focused on that...

55-minute swim workout, mid distance Wednesday, 11-3-21

There's something about distance day that I find so relaxing. Yes, I know, I'm weird. We established that some time ago. LOL Now, that we have that out of the way, we can focus on today's workout. My goals today was to maintain a certain speed in R1 and get faster in...