Good swim
Two days of rest and it’s time to get back at it. Slowly, that is – this is a recovery week after all. This morning I got in the pool and swam a relatively easy 3,000 yards. I did it in five long sets – 900, 700, 700, 400, 300 – and tried concentrating on form and my kicking. As usual, for these sets I swam until I felt like my form was begin to suffer. The first 900 felt great and I could have kept going, but I didn’t see any reason to push the first set, potentially at the expense of the rest of the session. I took a nice break (60-90 seconds) between each set to catch my breath and stretch my arms. I didn’t time the individual sets and I wasn’t working too hard, but I imagine that I was still averaging 1:45 or 1:50 per 100. If that’s right, it’s definitely a good sign. I imagine that sometime in the next few weeks/month, I’ll do another 1,000 yard time trial and I think I can shave a material amount of time off 1:44/100.
The pool wasn’t crowded at all this morning. Not that I’m complaining, but it’s strange. I would expect the pool to be more crowded when it’s this cold outside. I seem to remember the pool got more crowded as summer got closer last year – at the time I thought it was because people were starting to train for summer triathlons and swim races. Beginning to train in the spring just doesn’t make sense to me right now. But I guess that’s much more sane. Whatever. Speaking of the weather, this is a good time for me to be in recovery – it is freezing outside (actually, the news last night said that it’s been below freezing for the past five days in a row). Speaking of the cold, the other night, while I was out with Charlie, a news van stopped us and took some video of him in his jacket. The woman who we were talking to did do a story on how cold it was and she focused on some people around Union Square, but no Charlie.
After work I took my bike in to Jackrabbit to work on it with Christopher. As expected, he is being super helpful. It’s hard to tell just yet what the exact problem is and exactly how we’re going to solve it, but I’m certain that we will and I’ll have a bike that I love and is super comfortable.
Swim – February 7
Distance: 3,000 yards
Time: 1:00