(Yet Another) Road Trip Day 7 Vorsprung durch tecknik

The really great thing about being here is you can pretend to be a full time athlete, and swimming two sessions a day is a lot easier to do here then at home. (although it is still a pretty painful experience)

I think I need to take some better photos to illustrate this blog, especially as I've done most of my swimming in the old pool, which for some reason I'm more comfortable in.

It might conceivably be something to do with the wind tunnel effect at the new pool which is obviously created with car design in mind.

I suppose it might help out a swimmers streamlining as well, especially as it had a pretty dramatic effect on my swimming with paddles two days ago. Really teaching you to recover your hands properly!

EMSC obliged again with two sets written out for me and scheduling a mere 8.6 k! for me today. I completed this mornings set but needed the sanctity of a sunbed to recover and after an afternoon slobbing around I arrived at the pool way too late to complete the main set which should have been 3 repetitions of the 900 metres 300 easy, 2 x 200 and 4 x 50's as you can see I only managed 1 and then had to get out because the pool closes at 7pm and dinner was calling.

My other achievement of today was to completely miss any sort of class..... not quite sure how Teenage Triathlete let me off with that one







AM Session
Warm up
5 x 200  @ 4:00 as
no 1 steady
no 2 build to 85%
no 3 50 drill 50 swim
no 4 build to 90%
no 5 50 kick 50 swim
Main set
200 f/c steady @ 20 sRI
4 x 50 f/c drill2 10s RI
200 f/c steady @ 20 sRI
4 x 50 f/c with paddles
200 f/c steady @ 20 sRI
4 x 50 brst kick @ 10 s RI
200 f/c steady @ 20 sRI
4 x 50 f/c pull with paddles @ 10s RI
200 f/c steady @ 20 sRI
4 x 50 brst kick @ 10 s RI
200 f/c steady @ 20 sRI
4 x 50 f/c with paddles @ 10s RI
200 f/c steady @ 20 sRI
4 x 50 f/c drill @ 10s RI
200 f/c steady @ 20 sRI
4 x 50 Progressive 1-4 @ 30 sec RI
200 swim down
4400 total

PM Session
Warm up
200 f/c easy
4 x 50 f/c @ 20 s RI progressive to 90% (in your dreams)
300 f/c steady @ 20 s RI
6 x 50 f/c progressive 10s RI to 100%
Main
8 x 50's f/c 25 @ 20s RI fast kick, 25 fast swim
300 f/c steady @ 20s RI
2 x 200 @ 30 s RI 85% (3:17 and 3:12)
6 x 50's @ 10s RI at 90%
200 swim down
2,600 total
7,000 metres