Tag Archives: swim training

A Quick Rant

Ok. I cannot hold my tongue on this any longer. It REALLY bothers me when I see people in the pool –  and really this particular peculiarity is rather specific to triathletes – who are using a GPS WATCH IN THE POOL. For gosh sakes – STOP USING A WATCH IN THE POOL. THAT’S WHATContinue reading “A Quick Rant”

Test Set Consistency

(Another Strava piece) I planned ahead in ways aside from my Tuesday morning workout – as in, I knew things were probably going to be running behind no matter what I did, so that made it a prime day for a test set workout. It was time for me to do one anyway – perfect! The assignment:Continue reading “Test Set Consistency”

You can’t make up for a crappy eating day

This post is taken from my post-workout Strava post this morning – my Strava posts have been blog-post-worthy as of late, so I thought I would share, as I feel maybe some of the little tidbits could prove lesson-learning for more individuals than just myself… It never fails – if you have a day where youContinue reading “You can’t make up for a crappy eating day”

Take a breath…but when? Where? How?

I get asked a lot of questions about swimming: questions about kicking, about pulling, and about…breathing. A client happened to ask one of these questions about breathing the other day, and I thought it would be fitting to share with everyone else my take on the question… The question in this case revolved around bothContinue reading “Take a breath…but when? Where? How?”

Stop Being Lazy

I said this to myself as I arrived at the pool yesterday morning. I said this to myself the night before as I got all my things together to go to the pool in the morning. And all through my swim workout, I kept this thought at the forefront of my mind. Swimming. I loveContinue reading “Stop Being Lazy”

Shark Bait

Sunday swim day. BIG swim day. I received confirmation last night that my swim buddy was indeed going to be there this morning, which meant I was definitely going to have to bring my A-game. When you are swimming with someone faster than you, you need to be ready to go. And I was –Continue reading “Shark Bait”

Solace by Swim

Let me first begin by saying that I’ve had a great training week thus far; I’m getting my hard efforts in, and – to use the words of a previous post – I’m “nailing” them (my stomach may not agree with this statement). Today’s swim workout was no exception. I “nailed” it. And I foundContinue reading “Solace by Swim”

Week 8: Recovery in Review

Well, this was certainly not the recovery week I was anticipating. Maybe I was recovering from a physical stand point, but mentally, there was no such thing. I believe I touched on this in my last post (Totally Out of Sync) and I will say that I am still totally out of sync. However, routineContinue reading “Week 8: Recovery in Review”