missed days and holidays

I missed swimming on Friday - too lazy to get moving, and my kids were not going to go out without a big fight. So we stayed home.

Monday was the Family Day holiday here in Alberta. My class was cancelled, but I went swimming anyway. Going a whole week without swimming would really hurt.

There were 3 of us from our class at the pool. The instructor had left us a workout in case we showed up. 2 of us did Friday's workout instead.

I did a 200m warmup, then 50m double kick breaststroke, 50m breaststroke and 50m arms only breaststroke. Then 50m sprint front crawl with 15 sec rest x 15! (I did 4) Next was 50m kick, 100m sidekick. Then 50m sprint breastroke with 15 sec rest x 15 (I did 6). Then 100m easy front crawl, 100m easy breaststroke, and 200m cooldown (I skipped the cooldown).

So I swam 1200m. Then I went to the gym and did 10 minutes of spinning for 6.2 miles and 13 minutes of treadmill walking for .64 miles.

Total journey: 61.2 + 1.2 + 10 + 1.0 = 73.4km

catching up

I'd better catch up on some workouts before I forget what they were!

Today:
Cheryl posted: (no warmup listed - usually 300m)
400m freestyle
200m pulling (no pull buoy)
100m kicking (no board)
2x50m (50m easy/50m med) or (50m med/50m fast)
2x100m (...)
2x200m (...)
2x100m (...)
Repeat
100m easy
cooldown

I managed 200m warmup, 300m freestyle, 150m pulling, 100m kicking
2x50m, 2x100m, 2x200m, 50m cooldown
Total: 1500m

Monday's posted workout:
300m warmup, 300m pulling, 8 x 100m freestyle, 300m kicking, 3x 100m freestyle (fast)
(I have no idea what the rest was...)

I managed 300m warmup, 300m pulling, 400m freestyle, 400m kicking, 100m cooldown
Total 1500m

Friday's workout had lots of pulling and kicking, but I have NO idea what exactly we did...
I probably did about 1400m.

So I need to add 4.4km to my total mileage.

Boring old swim workouts

Monday's workout as posted:
300m warmup
front crawl: 50m slow, 100m medium, 50m fast - repeat twice
Breast stroke: same
back crawl: same
cooldown: 100m arms only, 100m legs only, 1oom whatever

I did 200m w/u, and only 2 sets of each stroke, 200m cooldown for 1600m

Wednesday's workout:
pyramid: 25m + 30 sec rest, 50m, 75m, 100m, 125m, 150m, 200m, 175m, 150m, 125m, 100m, 75m, 50m, 25m all with 30sec rest except 200m with 1 minute rest, plus 200m warmup and cooldown
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=14705


I arrived late and managed to get to 175m on the way back down, plus 75m cooldown for 1350m.

Total distance 56.8km, travelling through the Cowichan Indian Reserve (they make fabulous sweaters).