Counting Cock Ups

Swimming with the Consett guys this afternoon, their leader the esteemed Incumbent Chris (so called cos of her favoured mode of transport to the pool, an incumbent bike!) couldn't make it so they suggested that I set the session.... as usual making it up on the spot, nothing new there then.

I intended this to be steady but actually it turned out to be pretty hard work. We had a couple of counting malfunctions so the 2 x 300's ended up actually being a 233m and a 366m swim as is obvious from the print out below. I also miscounted the warm up, (encroaching mad cow disease) so I stuck an extra 2 lengths floppy (there's that term again) after the second set of 4 x 100s.

Not sure the guys were used to this sort of session but they seemed to enjoy it, and were still talking to me at the end.

The interesting thing (OK it's not that interesting and I am a very sad person) about the toosmartwatch is that it is absolutely merciless in that it records your every move, you can't kid yourself or shirk from anything, it's all there recorded in lovely wavy lines for posterity. As you can see the miscounting error in the 300's and you can count the actual number of repeats, also it shows that the progressive bits were actually progressive, in terms of heart rate anyhow.

400 warm up changing stroke every 33
6 x 33's @ 40 secs progressive 1-3 and 4-6
2 x 300's easy swim but working on turns, hard in and out of turns, streamlining and dolphin leg kicks
4 x 100 @ 1.55 count strokes per length for the first 100, then drop 1 stroke each length in each 100*
4 x 100 @ 1.55 add 1 stroke per regular breathing pattern, each 100**
5 x 100 @ 1.55 progressive, steady pace for the 1st 100, then sprint half a length further each 100
100 swim down
2800 m total

*I dropped from 27's - 24's
** I started breathing every 6 (single arm strokes) managed 7 & 8's for the next 2, knew I couldn't do 9's bilaterally so swam 10's that was very hard.