Keep it short and simple was the motto for today's swim. Practised breathing to both sides - I'm fine for 50m but the second 50m I find I am still feeling a little breathless and my legs feel like they are not getting enough oxygen. What am I doing wrong? Form, good; breathing, not so good. I have to confess that in the tri on Sunday I only breathed to my left side while swimming.
Session - swim
Workout - 300m wu; 2 x (100m pull buoy; 100m kick sans fins); 3 x 100m (30sec RI); 100m pull buoy; 100m kick sans fins; 300m fs.
Total distance - 1.5km
Physio update - rang this morning to make an appointment for next week and discovered I could get in Friday morning to see Craig. Yay! So hopefully he can resolve the glute problem.
"The race is not always to the swift...but to those who keep on running" and "Life without chocolate is life lacking something important."
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- CJ
- My favourite quote: When the world says "give up", Hope whispers "try it one more time" - anon. A few of my favourite things (in no particular order): family. friends. running. coffee. chocolate. cooking. eating. macarons. Major running/triathlon achievements to date: 1xIronman Triathlon - 2004; 8xCanberra marathons - 2001 - 03, 2005-09; 1xSydney marathon - 2005; 4xBush Capital 25kms - 2005-06; 2008; 2010 2xBulls Head Challenge - 2005-06; 2xSix Foot Track marathon 2007; 2009 1xGold Coast marathon - 2008
2010 events
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- Mt Taylor - Thomas Series - 29/8/10
- Melbourne Half Marathon - 10/10/10
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8 comments:
Only thing I could suggest (other than keep training and building your swimming base) is to concentrate on the *exhale* as a long controlled breath on the 2nd swimming stroke. Think of the exhale as just as important as the breath itself, and deserving of a whole stroke on its own.
Hopefully you'll get yourself into a rhythm of 1-pull, 2-exhale, 3-breathe, 1-pull etc... Don't try and exhale *just* before you're about to breathe in a quick burst. Take the full length of the 2nd stroke :)
Nice session - the only advice I can give. My only experience with swimming is holding my breath when I'm under water i.e. that is where I inevitably end up :-)
Can't offer advice when I don't even get in the pool lately :-(.
TA
Good luck with the physio!! The sooner the better :) My pain in the butt is going... still gets tight though! Thank you for the reminder... gently gently is soo right! I tend to get a bit over enthusastic! Feel free to remind me at any time :-)
I never could learn how to breathe while swimmnig, I also find it pretty hard.
Good to hear that sooner than planned you will see the doctor!!
Also, I am applying that kiss for many things... good idea.
Swimming is complicated! Nice job on the 5K!
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