Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Fast as a WALRUS
Today I had a "time trial" swim workout. I'm assuming my coach is trying to gauge how slow I really am at swimming. The workout consisted of some warm up laps, two time trials (560yds and 140yds), then some drills and a cool down. Here's the workout.

Swim Field Test-
W/U: 140y long and relaxed
3x70 build (get faster throughout interval), 0:30 rest
140 easy
2:00 rest
Test 1: 560y time trial (swim as fast as you can for 8 laps - aim for an even pace - don't go out too fast, but give it all you have! Record time!)
2:00 rest
140 easy
1:00 rest
Test2: 140y time trial (sprint 140y as fast as you can, record time)
Main Set: 2x70 catch-up, 0:30 rest
140 focus on long strokes, 1:00 rest
2x70, (35 fist, 35 swim), 0:30 rest
140 long strokes (try to see how few strokes you can take per length)

Conclusion- 8mins 30secs on the 560yd Time Trial and 2min 14secs on the 140yd TT. The second was considerably slower, since I was already fatigued from the longer TT. We'll see what the coach says, but here's what the Navy would've graded me with those times.

Navy Physical Fitness Test (PFT). In the 20-29 age group, I would've gotten a High Excellent (Only Outstanding Hi, Med, Lo are higher). That's if, and only if...I'd have also done 94 situps and 77 pushups.


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