by marciadmin | Oct 15, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
This looks like a deceptively easy workout, but it’s really about working that easy fast and then trying to maintain that easy fast. What is easy fast? It’s a term used in the competition community to describe that loose, relaxed 50 of a 200 race (and...
by marciadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
Timing and catch are part of what separate the average swimmer with the superstars. Of course, there’s talent and hard work, too, but talent means nothing without hard work. Talent, hard work, and the right mindset. Well, there are a lot things that go into...
by marciadmin | Oct 13, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts
The goal for all of the main set swims is to maintain :05/hundred better than your regular hundred interval. In my case, that would be 1:25/hundred. Although you don’t have to do this if you don’t want, my goal was to descend within each round. So, the...
by marciadmin | Oct 11, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts, SCAQ Swim Workouts
This morning, someone called from Culver City’s Parks and Recs Department to let me know that the pool was closed today because they “only have one staff member coming in today.” So, my backstroke workout was canceled (boo!), but I swam with SCAQ....
by marciadmin | Oct 10, 2021 | 50-Minute Swim Workouts, SCAQ Swim Workouts
I finally got back in and swam with SCAQ this morning. We only had three in our lane today, although I think there were more signed up. I led. Somehow, I actually swam an extra 50, so the total is 3600 (or 2 miles). I managed to descend the 200s, but not the 300s....
