by md6 » 27 Aug 2015 12:41
Wednesday 26th August:
Cycle commute (in to work only): took it easy most of the way, legs felt good but took a little while to warm up. I hadn't really eaten the night before and only had water that morning which could explain that a bit. But still seemed to be feeling pretty good once I warmed up. not setting the world alight but that wasn't the plan just a nice solid spin into the office.
Swim:
I decided to focus on technique and effort level for this session, not distance. So it only turned out to be 1600m.
w/u 400*m,
5x100* off 3mins. times for each were really consistent: 1'36, 1'38, 1'37, 1'37, 1'37.
400* technique focusing on catch and kicking
1x100* 1'40
200* c/d
* the pool is 19m which makes distances all slightly out, my 100's were actually 6 lengths which means 114m and so on - so all times should be adjusted to account for a 14% extra distance - but I CBA to do that.
technique stayed pretty good through all the first set of 100s and the reinforcing 400 was good. the kick went about half way through the last 100 and then the technique started to break down in the last length and I couldn't recover it. So I decided that was my set done, I had planned on doing another 4 reps but it was better to stop than lose technique.
Plus points - I see when my technique starts to go, I can feel it in my arms and shoulder positions, so I can try to recover it when it goes. I actually do a bit of kicking now. I'm not that slow when I put the effort in, and can hold form doing it.
Minuses - i'm not yet able to hold the effort level I would've liked. My shoulder aches from the effort and the technique breaking down (but no where near as bad as it would have before France - so that's kind of a plus too!)
Plan on double spin class tonight as I need to carry some things home with me from work so can't cycle. Same reason I didn't cycle home yesterday.
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