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Awesome job!  CONGRATS!

i agree with everyone so far, but one thing to emphasize is:

no matter how solid your stroke is (or you think it is) make sure you warm up with drills every workout and devote some workouts to nothing but drills. 

nobody has a 100% perfect stroke.  Olympic level swimmers and Iron man champions alike still spend many hours in the pool doing drill work.  So don't discount it as something just for beginners.

i find stomach kicks, side kicks, 6 kick changes and 3-2 switches to be the most effective for body position, and cathup and front quadrant drills for catch and pull

it's because at this point in the game, your form and technique play major roles in your efficiency.  Every time you swim, you get a feel for the water and slowly refine your technique.  Skip a day, and your muscles start to forget and you have to take a few steps backward when you get back in the pool.

I'm in the middle of the 0-1650 program. I kinda just jumped in at the 3rd week because that's where I was pretty comfortable. I have to do the 600m/300m/etc etc workout once more before moving on to the next level. Going to a straighg 1000m is a huge jump, I think.  But I'll probably be fine if I slow down a little bit like others have suggested.   My problem is that I tend to race EVERYTHING.  "less Slow and more Go" sometimes isn't the best motto.

I'll update this thread when I finish this program.  It would be a huge confidence-builder for me, and I will be extremely proud of myself.  I'm looking forward to it.

~B

very curious to see how you do. I remember going from 600 to 1000.  you have to slow everything down and just keep telling yourself that the big set is the first one. 

I also agree with vortmax about the technique.  I somewhat took this month off for swimming and concentrated on running and biking and man my technique went to crap.

Update:  Last night I said, "To heck with the program." But it's not what you think.

I planned to make the jump to the workout with the 1x1000, 3x100, 3x50.  I was getting towards the end of the 1000m piece, and I decided that the only reason I was planning to stop was because the plan said to.  What a silly reason.  I asked myself, "Do you NEED to stop?" The answer was, "No, not really."  So I didn't.  I just kept swimming.  I recall thinking to myself that it would awesome to knock out 1200 instead. But then got there and decided not to stop there either.  So I just kept going until I had swam the whole damn 1650 without stopping!!!  With nothing more than a little extra mental fortitude (the ability to break away from the plan's expectations for me), I swam a MILE straight through.  I NEVER thought I would be able to do that this month, or even the next. But here I am, proud as can be.   I defy you to wipe this grin off my face!

~B