Today was my Friday off, so I planned on getting in a good swim. We had gotten around 5 inches of snow last night, so running or cycling were out. I started out with my typical 500yds of warm-up and 500yds of drills. For my main set I did a 100-200-300-200-100 pyramid set. Somewhere after the 300 of my pyramid I started feeling like I was in a breathing groove. I thought I would quit after that, but I felt so good I wanted to keep going. So I did a face-down kick set for another 500 yds. Still feeling good after that and did another 500yds free with fins.
When I first started back in the pool after my season end break, I was feeling this was after the warm-up set. As time went on this feeling is taking longer and longer to get to. I always thought that swimming in the pool is tougher because I cannot get into a rhythm hitting the wall every 25 yds, but it may just be that my lungs/breathing take a certain amount of time to adjust to the swim pattern. Still not sure why it takes longer and longer?
The weekend looks to super cold(down to 0 deg F), so it is going to be a lot of time on the trainer and treadmill. Not looking forward to that! Hope there is something good on TV! May need to do some mini-brick workouts to break up the monotony.
