Great swim

A good session tonight, reasonably tough but pitched just right.

Warm up: 200m steady
Main: working on 40s lengths to include swim and rest:

2 x 50m on 1:20
2 x 100m on 2:40
2 x 150m on 4:00
2 x 200m on 5:20
2 x 150m on 4:00
2 x 100m on 2:40
and then no time for the last 2 x 50m!

Total swum = 200m + 1500m - just over a mile.

40s was a good interval - at 35s I would have been swiming more or less continuously, but at 40s I was getting enough rest. The other lanes were doing 35s or 30s though, so we were mixed between 45s and 40s in our lane. Seemed to work OK in terms of overtaking though. I guess the way to go is to cut down 1 or 2 seconds at a time, not the whole 5.

I'm also thinking that I could alternate the swims - if Wedensday night is endurance, I'll do technique on a Friday, and vice versa. Some time to concentrate on form without a watch bleeping away would help, I think.

Still trying to work out "proper" arms - I can't do that and breathe properly at the same time. If I do what seem to be successful arm strokes, I'm slower and my stroke count goes up.

Ate bananas and brazil nuts - no cramps.