Swimming Thursdays!

Christine came out with me early Thursday morning, 5:10am to be exact, to workout while I joined my team for a swim workout.  A great workout, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to sustain the workout because of my shoulder, but my shoulder held up, and actually felt ok.  We did about 1800+ yrds, but our sets were definitely longer distance.  Instead of doing sets of 50 or 75 yrd swims, we were doing 100s and 200s.  I think back to how far I could barely swim (winded after 25 or 50 yrds) to today (swimming 100's at a time), and am thrilled to see how far I can go in the future.

At the end of practice, we did a 200yrd timed swim and a 5min open swim.  The results?  The 200yrd swim was ok, I swam it in about 3:30min, but I think I could have gone faster (closer to 3 min) if I was out front in my lane.  As for the 5 min swim, I swam about 300 yrds - just about 1:40 min per 100 yrds - slightly faster than the 200yrd swim time.

This weekend will be a 90 min bike ride with the team.  Unfortunately, my mentor and pack lead won't be there this weekend, hopefully there will be someone there who will push it hard so that I can push to keep up.