Six months off from swimming through the ultrarunning season plus sub-standard swim workout frequency in the past few months is a formula for mediocrity. Yes, I know I’m lucky that this minimalist approach breeds something greater than suckiness, but I put in my time during my teen years. Get over it.
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If you follow my highly intermittent Tweets and Facebook posts, you probably know what’s up. Or down (with that). This here is an update for those who aren’t up or down and just sitting in the middle wondering what’s going on. I’ve talked about swimming in the pool and my typical 2000 yard main sets, but swimming in open water is at least as important. I think the benefit to regular open water practice is primarily mental, but there are some physical skills that can be developed as well. In theory, there should be Workout of the Week (WOTW) posts every week. I know this. It is a bit sad that I couldn’t even maintain the appearance of commitment to weekly workout posts for a little while before lapsing into “Workout of the Every X Number of Weeks” posts. But, hey. Good news! Here’s my second installment. It’s mid-July and probably a good time to talk about how the training is going. As a reminder, my A races are an Olympic distance on September 25th and a Half Iron the following weekend. I have one more Olympic distance race in early August, but that’s it for the events that are shaping the training plan. You know the old saw– that which is rewarded persists and vice versa. Persistence is repetition and what you repeat, improves or at least becomes easier to do and/or more entrenched as a pattern. The primary examples of this process at work in my world tell the story of what’s been going on as well as any other approach. I have one more triathlon and then duathlon worlds, so swim training will fall off the map after August 22nd. This morning I did my final big swim workout of the season. In fact, it was my longest so far at 4000 yards. Since I’ve been spouting some opinions about swimming and what I do (or don’t do) has been a topic of concern, I thought I’d share. I had a good swim this morning and something made me want to blog on the topic of triathletes and swim paddles. OK. Get ready for my opinion and feel free to disagree, but I’d suggest that there is a lot of misuse of swim paddles by triathletes out there. From Gordo Byrn’s recent blog post: TIP – it takes a lot less to get back to a previous level than attain it for the first time. I hear it all the time. I hear it from people who learned to swim later in life sometimes, but more often, I hear it from people who have swum lots. It’s the idea that one must swim with high frequency or lose a feel for the water. |
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