Day 5: Swimming
Today wraps up week 1 of training. I’ll be doing some cardio on my own tomorrow, but Sunday I’ll be out of town at a wedding, and unless I hit the dance floor, I probably won’t be getting much exercise. Actually, the food available at the wedding will be an interesting experience. Cake, anyone?
So, we did our first day of swimming. Now, swimming is a favorite thing of mine. I’ve been swimming as long as I can remember, and all the way thru high-school I swam competitively. In fact, my freshman year I earned my first varsity letter. Of course, high-school was 18 years ago, so while I should still have most of the skills, I’m nowhere near varsity shape anymore.
Scot wanted to see how much I could do, to get a baseline for helping me get faster and building endurance. I clocked my 100yd swim at 1:32 and completed 34 laps consecutively. I could have gone a little longer, but we got there late, I had to purchase a membership and we shot some footage outside ahead of time, so we were on a short clock. Feeling good, but also feeling sluggish. Also, some of the muscles that I worked on yesterday with the weights were really feeling the double-duty today.
I actually did some flip-turns during the dash, but none during the consecutive swim. The reason is that while flip turns will give me a better race time, they tend to kill my oxygen and tire me out faster. Also, I reasoned that there won’t be any flip-turning in a triathlon. 
I think (not sure, though) that on Monday we might be able to put together a solid weekly routine. Mike has already Laid out Monday and Thursdays for weights, so that leaves me with 3 cardio disciplines, and I just happen to have 3 sports to prep for, swimming, running and riding. Sounds like we just need to figure out the order. Also, I’m guessing that we still need to set some baselines for riding and running. We’ll all find out more on Monday.
Have a GREAT weekend!
Posted: October 5th, 2007 under Video Podcast, Chris' Log.
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