Pyramuddle

I think there was a flaw in The Plan today. Undoubtedly mine, somewhere during the process of transcribing things out of The Book to The Spreadsheet I got in a muddle. Today's swim session was headed "fartlek swim" but the content was the same as Tuesday. Bugger.

Doing the same thing two sessions running (or swimming...) is more than a bit dull, so I went for a pyramid session instead. I used to do them in Kerry's coached sessions and although it's a bit more complex than "6x100m", even I can cope with counting up to 4 and back again. Set the watch to 35s intervals and then swim 1-2-3-4-3-2-1 lengths, resting until the next beep after the given number of lengths. I know I should be swimming 30s or quicker per length, so that would give me 5s of rest (or more, if I work harder) per length swum. And each pyramid is a neat 400m total.

It worked pretty well. After 300m warm up (OK, 250 warm up plus 50m where I failed to start my watch properly - d'oh), I did three pyramids at moderate effort. For the first one, I was consistently swimming 28-29s average per length and a couple of vital extra seconds of rest. Not too shabby. For the second, 29-30s, and for the third, you guessed it, 30-31s. I was getting tired and my turns were getting sloppy and costing me time - by the last few lengths I was really working to maintain the pace, and the rests were flying by. The 250 cool down, on the other hand, was bliss :)

It was actually a really enjoyable session that felt very productive, so maybe the typo worked in my favour. It's been a good week overall so far - now to try and surf that wave! The day finished off nicely too, catching up with the Conac crowd in the pub over a well earned pint. I may even have A Reader Or Two... *wave* :)

Photo: Muttart Conservatory by bulliver, on Flickr