50 Miles of Swimming by MAY 1 (Page 4)

2400 more down.  Main set today was 8x200.  I managed to come in at 2:44-47 for each one.  Not bad for getting back into it.

Total is now at 16,500.  

I'm on scy. 1:12 scm would be an off the block sprint.

There was a big kickset in there, so probably would have been closer to 1:15 on a more normal set. 1:24-ish in scm? One of the pools may switch it up in the coming weeks, so could find out. Last year they did it because one of the bulkhead anchor points for scy was messed up.

Maybe we need to start a sub 1:00 / 100 yds challenge!

Would be interesting! Though not planning on that event in any meets in the near future.

With the talk of the 1:00 for a 100, been starting to wonder what would be a good speed challenge to tie in with the origin of this thread? Could help quite a bit in keeping up the quality of the workouts being done. Bike & run improvements can happen by just doing more. Swim can, but much more often it's necessary to make it happen more directly than that due to the more technical nature of it. Could help in the motivation to push and learn how to work sets better.

That makes sense, and is good to remember. Curious what type of events or part of development you may put in blocks like that before. Thinking ahead to some later season events. One has a ~4k swim in it and might do another that's a 5k only.

The short set would be good to remember as well. Swap scm to scy and it'd fit well for me, coming in mid to high 30's.

Yeah, those distances would better indicate fitness for what we're looking at. The basic idea of what I was going for was to help emphasize getting faster. Finding something shorter than those to help keep the idea of trying to actually go faster. Biking & running improvements can come just by doing more and simply going out and doing them. Design can and does help things come along more quickly, but going and and doing them can still take someone quite a ways. As you know, swimming doesn't really have that. It's vital to work on going faster as speed improvements don't just sort of happen. One has to make them happen. So a yardage challenge such as this is a helpful tool, was thinking that it may also help to have some sort of speed thing in there to help focus on set design & execution. Helping to keep from just throwing a bunch of yards at things without minding the particulars too much. I didn't actually mean for a 100 specifically, but more thinking out loud about the idea in general and the topic of 100 speed triggered that. Maybe watch 200 speed more? And watch how this is going within the context of training for longer events, not sprint training.

2600 more yards for 19,100.  

Re: Speed challenge.  You need to make a way to not have a hard set time for the goal.  Maybe do an improvement comparison in 100 or 200 time, since speed is the focus.  Do a 100/200 max effort this month, and then try again in May after the challenge to see how much of an improvement is made.

Saying "sub 1:00/100" really isolates who can be involved.

I'm just over halfway after my swim this morning: 42228m. 

At this point I would just like to overcome the challenge of getting to the pool.  The weather is kicking our ars around here.  No power for days last week.  Another storm this week shutting things down.  I may just try to hook up a tether in the bathtub. 

A few weeks ago I did a 300 IM and a 400 IM in a workout. Had never done either before. Had only made 100 straight fly once before (and was ready to drop dead). No idea on time and certainly none on DPS. Some things can be just about getting there. Nice going! 

Did 4,300 last night. A few hundreds in the warm-up, but everything else was shorter. A few 75's throughout, all else was a mix of 50's and 25's. Really working on getting the feel back. Within the workout it really seemed to make a difference. Will see how it goes today. Also had 1200 kicking spread throughout. Some udk in that, seem to be getting a better handle on it. Not killing me so much.