first water, cold

It was cold and cloudy this morning, making the steps from bed to pool long and involved.

• 100m easy free
• 400m free
• came in at ~7:05
• 100m pull w/ paddles
• 200m fly/back drill
• 300m fly kick

total distance: 1100m

first water, back in the game (kinda)

Swam a little bit more this morning. I got out of bed early-ish, amazingly. Still not totally back from my most recent repiratory infection but better than last week.

da numbers:

• 400m free
• 3 x 100m free easy/hard
• 3 x 100m pull w/ paddles easy/hard
• 100m fly kick

total distance: 1100m

first water, barely

I have got to start waking up earlier.
da numbers:

• 400m free
• 200m free
  
  • came in at ~3:30
• 200m pull w/ paddles
• 100m fly kick

total distance: 900m

first water, running a wee bit late

I set my alarm for 6:30, planned on being out the door at 7:15 and in the pool by 7:30. Right. So, I hit snooze until 8:15, got out the door at 8:20 and in the water at 8:35. This gave me 25 minutes to swim whatever I could in 25 minutes. I was so mad at myself I just swam two 400m's, the first freestyle, the second with paddles. Note to self: get out of be earlier. Dick.
da numbers:

• 400m free
• 400m pull w/ paddles
• 100m fly kick

total distance: 900m
On the plus side, 400m is a good length to make 100m feel not that far. In general, it's probably good I swim some longer distances -  good for my stroke and walls.

first water, or should I say second

Day two after a two week pause for illness. Things in the pool continue to suck. It's got to get better. I mean, it can't get any worse, right? I know. It can.

• 6 x 100m free
• 3 x 100m pull w/ paddles
• 200m fly kick

total distance: 1100m
Bridget was supposed to meet me and motivate me to not suck. But she didn't show up, so she sucks. Oddly, my stroke feels OK. I didn't even want to look at the clock for today's sets. I'll save that for when things start feeling a little less sucky.

first water, first in a long time

It's been almost 3 weeks since I last got in the pool. And I gotta say, being sick does not make one a better swimmer.
da numbers:

• 400m easy free
• 200m pull w/ paddles
• 200m fly kick

total distance: 800m
Not my best day ever. I'm taking things pretty easy as far as swimming goes until I feel totally healthy - for example, no more coughing up stuff. The 400m free was hard, the pull was hard and the kick drill was hard. Everything just felt bad, like I've been sick.

first water

I truly did not care this morning.
da numbers:

• 400m easy free
• First time w/ turns, making this my longest distance in long course. And it really wasn't that bad.
• 6 x 100m free @ 2:00
• Maybe I was tired from the "warm-up", most likely I just suck, but I could not keep my times near 1:30. For the first couple 100's I was a little under 1:35, and it went downhill from there. The last 2 or 3 were about 1:42. Sad.
• 200m pull w/ paddles
• 400m fly kick

total distance 1600m
Not to self: glide longer. The closer my recovering arm is to touching my catching arm, the better freestyle feels. This means turning around my lead arm. Do not pause with arm at side or in the air. Recover faster, catch for longer.

first water

Most certainly did not feel good in the pool today. As such, I worked on everything but freestyle.
da numbers:

• 400m easy free
• 3 x 200m IM (of sorts, not really)
• 200m pull w/ paddles
• 400m fly kick

total distance: 1600m

fist water

Kinda feeling faster, but I don't know.
da numbers:

• 400m easy free
• 6 x 100m free easy/hard @2:30
• these were hard, easy first 50 then screaming hard back
• coming in between 1:32 - 1:37
• 2 x 100m pull w/ paddles
• coming in just after 1:30 - that means I'm tired
• 400m fly kick

total distance: 1600m