22nd April 2009 Wednesday, Swimming with Pull Buoy

I was planing to swim for at least 1-1/2 hrs but did not manage to arrive the pool earlier due to busy work load in the office. Arrive at the pool at 7pm and finished my swim at 8pm.

I set a goal to complete 30laps FC with pull buoy this evening focusing on stroke accuracy and be conscious of side row ensuring that gliding motion was achieved, so inevitably the swim had to be slow. This was an advice from YF Coach, so that when doing fast and long swim, there should be less percentage of inaccurate stroke. I also tried not to rest too long between 200mx200mx100m, 3 x = 1.5km. I usually tend to take long rest between sub sets - 200m or 100m swim.

I think I did pretty good tonight with consistent timing. Rest between sub set approx 15 to 30 sec.

1st set = 200m - 5.38min, 200m- 5.54min, 100m - 2.40min
2nd set= 200m -5.39min, 200m -5.20min, 100m - 2.38min
3rd set = 200m- 5.28min, 200m -5.44min, 100m - 2.49min

Before ending the swim, I did 2x50m sprint with 1min res in between.
1x50m = 1.05min
1x50min = 1.02min

My next aim was to swim 500m without rest and also focus on fluttering.
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