Met up with coach last Friday for a swim review. A few points noted - initiate earlier left pull, avoid strong kick on left side, ensure no crossing over when reaching on the right. Focused on these tweaks this morning and happy to note the fall in lap timings:-
Pull drill lap time: 1.16, 1.13, 1.14, 1.17, 1.16, 1.17,1.21, 1.20, 1.22, 1.21,1.19, 1.16
Front crawl lap time: 1.15, 1.13, 1.18, 1.14, 1.14, 1.24, 1.20, 1.18, 1.20, 1.16
The tradeoff was a slight increase in stroke count ... up to 20-21. And one more thing. Hypothesis: Bilateral breathing leads to faster laps. Hypothesis not tested, just based on anedoctal evidence.
Ran 5 1-km intervals last Sat and here are the splits:
5.16
4.59
5.12
5.10
5.06
400m jog recovery between the intervals. I was quite surprised with this workout, coz I thought I could probably do only 5:30. Ave HR went up with successive interval and max HR was 186 recorded on the fifth 1-k interval.
2 comments:
great timing for the intervals!!
thanks, my friend. Hope your training and project are coming along well.
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