The second meet of the year was last weekend at the University of Saint Thomas (St. Paul, MN). For me, it was the first time swimming at that facility and I'm very glad I had the opportunity to do so. Once again, it was a full meet lineup for the day and the cap was 5 (or 6) events per swimmer.
I choose similar events as the Ice Breaker meet, and my goal was: to improve my times and to also have better execution of every swim. The events:
200 free - 1:54.84
500 free - 5:11.16 *SB
1,000 free - 10:59.96 *SB
400 IM - 4:55.81
February is almost over, and I will not hit my 120,000 yards goal. Right now (Thursday), I'm sitting at 110k and took my first day off in 3 weeks (elbow discomfort). I won't be swimming 10k tomorrow, best case 4k will do for me (if the elbow stops bugging me). March looks promising, I'm going to set the bar at 120k again and hopefully I will be able to hit it this time around.
Next swim meet is in March 22nd (also my 28th birthday). Right now I'm thinking about swimming the 500 free, 200 free, 100 fly and 1,650 free. I might swim the 200 fly (as a birthday swim), but the whole mixing the 200 fly with the 1,650 was painful when I did it in college, I can not imagine how bad that is going to feel right now.
Triathlon training is taking a back seat to swimming. Running is the thing I've been doing the most, I'm planning on changing that during the month of March.
500 Free video
I choose similar events as the Ice Breaker meet, and my goal was: to improve my times and to also have better execution of every swim. The events:
200 free - 1:54.84
500 free - 5:11.16 *SB
1,000 free - 10:59.96 *SB
400 IM - 4:55.81
- The good: 500 Free, it was a very even swim and right now I am starting to feel just like I did while swimming during college (early season anyway). 10 second drop in a month (2 seconds per 100 yards), this is very encouraging and right now this is the event I will be targeting as my "A" swim for the Hopkins meet in a month.
- The bad: 1,000 Free, no gas left in the tank. I had no motivation at all and it was very harsh on my body to do that last event. However, I dropped 5 seconds which is a small victory for me, but there is a lot of work to be done. I'm trying to decide if I want to swim the 1,650 at Hopkins or give the 1,000 Free another shot.
- The ugly: 200 Free, went out in a 54.xx and came back in 1:00.xx that is not how you swim a 200 free, or fly/back/breast... you get the point. The 200 free last meet had me doing an even split race (57 and 57 for a 1:54). I know why things went this way and I know what to do in order to fix it.
February is almost over, and I will not hit my 120,000 yards goal. Right now (Thursday), I'm sitting at 110k and took my first day off in 3 weeks (elbow discomfort). I won't be swimming 10k tomorrow, best case 4k will do for me (if the elbow stops bugging me). March looks promising, I'm going to set the bar at 120k again and hopefully I will be able to hit it this time around.
Next swim meet is in March 22nd (also my 28th birthday). Right now I'm thinking about swimming the 500 free, 200 free, 100 fly and 1,650 free. I might swim the 200 fly (as a birthday swim), but the whole mixing the 200 fly with the 1,650 was painful when I did it in college, I can not imagine how bad that is going to feel right now.
Triathlon training is taking a back seat to swimming. Running is the thing I've been doing the most, I'm planning on changing that during the month of March.
500 Free video