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Also Herve' nice improvement on your swimming keep it up!!!!!!

Good Day,

Swim meet this weekend so not much going to happen as to training, did get in 7 mile run Sat. AM, maybe a trainer ride after getting home this afternoon. David nothing wrong or inferior about running on a treadmill, I probably go about a 50-50 indoor to outdoor run percentage. Especially here in the summers my workout time is the afternoons, no way to run outside unless its at 8:00 at night. That doesn't work for me. I've done a 7 mile run on a treadmill, never again. I'll go up to 6 miles, its a great way to do a speed workout w/intervals, or just know your at a controlled pace. Plus I think its easier on the legs than outdoors all of the time. So don't hesitate if it fits into your workout plans.

andrew.robbins - 2010-02-07 12:59 PM Help! Need some advice on swim workouts. Really struggling with breathing and getting through 50m front crawl without having to rest. What am I doing wrong?

Hello Andrew good to hear from you, did you get a chance to look at the swimsmooth.com website, take a look it should help and give you something to work on. Breathing is always a challenge,most likely you are holding onto your breath to long and then when you need to breath it is very difficult to exhale and inhale. Make sure you are letting air out as you stroke so when it is time for a breath your lungs are empty or near and you can inhale at the proper time. Take is slow and work on your breath timing and as you get more comfortable you'll begin to find it easier to increase distance. Also pay particular attention to the elbow postition needed for good freestyle.

David it is not uncommon to struggle on the non dominant side, the timing feels wrong and most likely is wrong. I do the same, its just the way it is when swimming is picked up later in life, same as Andrew work on it when you are doing your warm up, use fins if you have them so you only have to think about the rotation and breath, then work it into your workout from time to time it will begin to get easier. But with that said for me I'll always be  a one side breather I think, but its nice to be able to go the other way if you should need to.

Last night a new swimmer came we had him bi-lateral breathing in one session, its easier when there young and there is no dominant side they just do it.

Hi all -

Roy - thanks for the swim tips and I do practice a bit each time I swim so I am hoping to get more relaxed with the breathing.

Herve - Wow! Congrats on the sponsorship. And, thanks for the advice on the sprocket and chain. I really do not know how many miles are on the chain as I purchased the bike new. I think it is a 2005 model and I use it all last year. No shifting issues or chain coming off as of yet. I was cleaning the chain and sprockets and noticed some sag in the chain so that is why I asked. I should probably consider having it replaced.

Happy training all!

David

Greetings all -

I had a real good swim last night. I swam a 1/2 mile non stop then swam a 1/4 mile with the hand paddles. I felt really strong and just was in my groove. I did practice the alternate breathing during a 2 lap warm up, but found that when I started swimming I breathed from my dominant side.

Today is a 9 mile slow run. Actually, my spouse talked me into it, but we will pace out and back at 11 or 12 min miles. No jack rabbit running here!

I plan on a long bike tomorrow should the weather hold out!

Hope everyone is doing well and training hard!

David

Hi Gang,

Looks like everyone is getting along pretty well. Sorry Alice you didn't get to sign up for the run, but you'll have plenty of opporutnities in the future. So keep working on your milage/distances and be prepared for a good summer. You have a great opportunity to be able to swim in the 50meter pool there at UF, it will be a great help in building swim endurance.

Herve thats pretty cool, you obviously have some qualities blue seventy was looking for, so have fun and enjoy.

David, if you can do that distance and no issues, recovery is easy thats a good sign. Keep it up.

I don't know about you all's weather but I'm about over the cold stuff we are having in Fl. this year. But what are we to do, find the time and get out there and do it.

Have a good day.

Also David change the chain, if thats the bike you are going to be riding you don't want a chain snapping as your cranking up a hill and ruining the day.

ohioguzimas(spelling) Herve and the rest of you. Went to Tokyo in 1992 for two weeks loved it, very humid but a great time. Played golf for two weeks, quite different about how they go about it there. But anyway, good to hear from you all, David I do only basic maintenance on my bike but I do as much as I can. You can buy a tool that will remove the masterlink pin if you want to do your own chain. I used to build up my own stock cars back a fews years ago I always figured I could build a bike, probably will give it a go some day. Herve I've never heard about incline to prevent injury, but most recommend to simulate road conditions to run at a 1% incline. I usually don't never remember.

Andrew Olympic curling is up pretty soon, kind of enjoy watching it when its on. Neat strategies. Just keep your swimming smooth and easy until it becomes more comfortable. Try not to gasp and breath, I'm sure this is more of engrained reaction. Try just bobbing(vertically) up and down slowly on the side of the pool where you breath as your head comes up and quickly down blow out, this will help with the timing.

Andrew you can have multiple "A" races throughout a season, so if it looks like you do more races later in the summer pick another event you would like to target. Pick one thats of similar distance to your other A race, can give you some good idea on how your training is going and how you have improved.

Had a pretty good weekend, got in a great 7 mile tempo run 8:45's/mile on Saturday. Didn't intend to do it that way but got off to a good start I could tell I was running well so I just kept it up. Wanted to get in a longer ride on Sunday but the weather still is not right for Florida, so cut it short only got in 25 miles but a good ride non the less.

Have a great day everyone.

Big news! I went on my first group ride.. and got dropped in the first 5 miles, haha! It was supposed to be a 30 miler but I cut it short to 20. I'm definatly going out again next Sunday and see if I can hang on for a bit longer. I figure I'll just keep going and maybe one day I'll be able to stick with them. I've only gone on about 3 rides in the past year, so I'm definatly out of my cycling form. We'll see how long it takes