Getting Back Into The Swim with Joan
Here’s what the swimmers at the Brandywine YMCA did on Saturday: W/U 500 Swim Choice Kick w/ fins: 5 x 100 @ :15 rest. Choice. Pull: 5 x 100 @ :10 rest, alternate back and free Main: 5 x 100 IM @2:30/2:45/3:00 IM’s can be any configuration depending on strokes known W/D 2 x 50 [...]
It is hard to believe it is Wednesday already. I had a stomach bug Sunday and Monday and have just about caught up with things. Saturday’s workout was with my swimming group, and I did the warm up with them: 6 x 100 free/back, 100 each swim kick drill. Then 4 x 50 free @ [...]
OK-so I did 800 yards. And it was time to get out. Legs shaking. But no shoulder pain! And the breathing was better than I had thought it would be. I did 4x 200, mixing it up, and not using any equipment (fins, pull buoys, or paddles). In the middle I did 6 x 50 [...]
I did it! Swam 650 yards on Saturday AM after I coached my masters group. Felt great. Just long, slow easy, with my swimmers checking it out. Never occurred to me that I would have an audience! I know the first time in after a long absence can be deceptive, but I have to [...]
Like many masters swimmers, I had unrealized swimming goals, and decided to attempt to realize them. Only, I had taken 30 years off… I got back in the water 10 years ago. It took me an entire year just to build an aerobic base. I didn’t know about Power Lung at the time! In 2000, [...]
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