Swimming a distance set well is a little like baking a birthday cake, which is a perfect analogy for today because it is Hubbard's birthday! Much like swimming, baking is all about pacing. Upon reading the cake recipe, you would probably not blast through the supermarket doing a wheelie grabbing things off shelves, then race home to throw everything in the bowl. You would take your time, knowing that this is just the first part of a process. You would probably not stir the ingredients so vigorously that your arm hurt, causing you to skimp on the most important part: the oven. For this final part, you really want the temperature and time to be just right so that you do not burn the cake. The same goes for a distance set, like the one we did today. And Bill gives us the recipe in very clear language. When the first part of the main set (which is well before 7am, I might add) is 1000 and he says "get your 500 split" you pretty much know this is just the beginning of a long set. And if you paced yourself well, the last part will be like the perfect chocolate cake with white icing (supermarket icing, not the fancy stuff), and it will definitely not be burned. Happy birthday to Hubbard, whose cake came out very well today.
200 warmup
4 x 150
odds: free 25 drill - 25 swim
evens:stroke 25 drill - 25 swim
4 x 100
odds: free working on elbow pop
evens: IM with legal turns
1 x 1000 free
Long swim
* watch your 200 splits
* get your 500 time
1 x 1000 again... same as above.
1 x 500 faster than 500 split
6 x 25 on :30
100 free
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