Just sort of looking this last training week.. The swim is coming along with some exceptions and there is definitely a pattern so if folks have some suggestions please do send them..
Oh yeah, that means you.. Anon poster (as I recall swimming was your strength?)
So here goes: Essentially I'd like to get in 5-6 days of swimming a week, I feel it's doable yet in the last month I start the week w/a bang and swim some fast 5x200s on 30sec rest; the next couple of sessions are distance orientated and mod stuff is (finally) on a 1.30/100y base
(Why am I so damn slow in races????)
By the weekend I'm feeling a bit run down and I'll do some form of a drill set.
That's only four sessions. If I had more energy I'd do another session and I suppose I could but it is hard for me to motivate for a session that might be mostly drills or slower swimming, I question the value so I skip it.
I would love some help here.
At any rate, cycling and running is coming along fine.. My hip is no longer tweaky, the light weight work helped, and I've been able to stop lifting all together..
On the life front.. Could it be anymore up in the air? (probably, but let's hope it's not).. So, I have not found another gig. Period. In Seattle, Portland or anywhere else.
I used to get calls, emails, etc. continuously about contract opportunities, now nothing. I have gone through this before but this transition is more touchy for many reasons..
Folks that follow the blog know I wound up in Seattle due to a now former significant other and that work obligations kept me there.. I've always had one foot out of the city; after all, with no compelling reason to stay (e.g. not much of social network, not dating and light professional network) it's been easy to look at leaving..
Now I really have to decide, but I think the decision is being made for me. I can't really stay in my outrageously expensive place near Microsoft because, well, there is no more Microsoft gig or any other work for that matter.
I'd like to come back to Pdx with a job but it's grim there at the moment (10.8% unemployment) and so I've taken to looking at any reasonably sized market on the West Coast. There are things in the hopper but nothing has progressed passed really friendly first phone calls.
None of this makes getting on with the business of life easy in any way. I've just decided to stop planning my season and take each weekend as it comes in the near term, however, this doesn't mean I'm not trying to get after it.. I am, I just have to know where I'll be so I can get after it when I'm there!
Oh, and here's where I can use the help of the blog followers.. Keep an eye out on the job market for me.. Where ever you are, I'm actually more than happy to send my resume to you to shop around!
Friday, March 20, 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
Not that I'm a great swimmer BUT I've been swimming with great swimmers and have picked some things up here and there. I question why you give yourself a full 30 sec recovery on 200s. That's almost like taking a nap, seriously. I thought the point of 200 repeats was to push yourself with distance, almost recover and hit it over and over again. From what I get this trains your body to just "go". What are you hitting your 200s at?
These SUCK BTW. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger right?
I take 30 sec on almost everything !
Hmm.
I guess I should be doing more of the 200s.. But remember I'm having trouble getting past 4 sessions in a week without crashing..
I'm afraid w/short rest I'll put myself in a hole to start the week.
Oh, the 200's are *on* the 3.30, not w/30sec rest.. sorry..
Of course, I'm doing them in 2.55-3min flat, so, uh.. I guess that's 30sec rest. :)
I'm also not a great swimmer. Not even a good swimmer, actually, but something did strike me. I wonder if you're allowing yourself to race or time-trial in just the swim. It's easy enough to pick up a road race or a bike race or time trial to really hone your performace skills, but are you able to do this with swimming? Because if 100% of your swim training is in the pool following a routine, and then suddenly you're in a race having to perform in open water, I could see reason for a lag in performance, even if all other aspects of your training is on. Imagine if you were racing each week in the water - you would probably improve dramatically.
Why not try "on" the 3:15's, you're very well capable of it.
Post a Comment