Mucho Mental Manatee Mentors--CLOSED (Pop Tarts?) (Page 5)

Confession time:

Well folks.  I just downloaded my Garmin data and have been looking at my swims.  It seems what I thought was a 10sec RI was really anywhere from a 9.XX-17.XX. LOL! with the bulk of them falling in the 13-16 range.  HAHAHA!  Time flies when you're sucking wind  

So, I'm going to try to redeem myself by repeating this workout and keeping the RI to 10.  I think a combination of new goggles and ending my hundres at the end of the pool w/ the pace clock will hopefully make a difference.

Also in looking through the last two weeks my fastest 400 was a 6:08 and fastest 200 was a 3:02--done on October 18th (just part of a set, not a CSS), and those were done back-to-back with a 1:10 rest interval and what looks to be ~ 500yd WU (Garmin doesn't record kick sets, so I'm guessing there). 

Aaaaaaanyway, I have three take away points from this: 1) I'm psyching myself out on the CSS "test" as I've done it faster when not testing--nice. doh! 2)My perception of things in the pool is waaay more off than it should be.  I'm going to look at my data after each swim instead of waiting until the end of the week. 3) When I plug the 400/200 from above into the CSS calculator, I get a 1:33/100 CSS.  This makes more sense, especially given the splits I was doing during the 30 x 100, granted with a longer RI than I should have had.  That's a big difference in the pain the workout will bring, but so be it.

I believe six Manatees have already posted there (but, like a real swimmer, I can't count ), but I'd encourage the rest to read this thread if not post in it, too. Ron (site founder/director) is really listening to this one.

The Decline of the BT Community

TT is seriously without  a collective sense of humour at the moment.     Me posted a thread over there and it ain't sexy enough even to get a single reply all day.

Also, seriously embarrassed by what is happening in another thread.    

Winter is here.