Hot in the City

Date: Saturday, June 16, 2012
Time: 6:30 a.m.
Location: Tucson, AZ
Short Course Meters
9 days to Olympic Trials

400 warmup

100 free aerobic on 1:30
200 free aerobic on 3:00
100 free aerobic on 1:40
200 free aerobic on 2:50
100 free aerobic

4x100 on 2:00
1. 75 back/25 breast
2. 50 back/50 breast
3. 25 back/75 breast
4. 100 breast

50 free aerobic on :50
100 free aerobic on 1:30
50 free aerobic on :50
100 free aerobic on 1:30
50 free aerobic

4x50 on 1:05
15 breakout/35 easy

Two rounds:
25 breast underwater on :30
50 free aerobic on 1:00
25 breast underwater on :30
50 free aerobic on 1:00
25 breast underwater on :30

4x25 free one breath on :40

100 easy

Total: 3,000 meters (60 minutes)

During taper, you can't really take a day off. You will lose your feel for the water, and sometimes it will take an extra day to get back on track. Unfortunately, I might have to do that on Monday, because Phoenix Swim Club won't have morning workout. I usually take Saturday off, but needed to splash around today. Because the age group team was using the long course pool, the Masters group was forced to swim in the diving well, where the water was 83 degrees. Not a good temperature on a day when the air temperature was 78 degrees at 6:30 a.m.

I took my pace slowly through the workout to prevent overheating, but also because I didn't want to do much fast swimming today. (I will do that tomorrow.) The intervals made that pretty easy to do, and though the water temperature didn't make the workout comfortable, I still felt pretty good in the water.