Hi triathletes, and welcome to your 5am swim practice. Today we’ll start out with a nice 900 yard warm-up: 300 swim, 300 drill and 300 kick. Then we move straight into a set of 3x100, breathing every third stroke, followed by 3x200 breathing every third and fifth stroke (changing each 50 yards). Then we’ll do 2x300, breathing 3,5,3,7,3,9 strokes, again, changing each 50. Then you can do a 400, with a breathing pattern of your choice.
After grinding through this hateful set of headache-inducing splashing, watching my stroke fall apart and my lungs fill with water, I canned the workout, not even bothering with the last 400 and forgetting altogether about anything more than 3 strokes. The coach said “how was that” and I said “probably my least favorite workout”. He said “you looked good at the end” and the elevator doors closed and I went home. Had a really nice run later, which was just as well.
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