6 inches of snow this morning with another 6-12 tonight.....Since it warmed all the way up to 38 yesterday, I decided to change up myschedule and went outside for a 65 miler. It was still quite cold as it was about 29 when I started and very damp--in fact it lightly snowed for the first half-hour or so....jeez. Today's snow was very wet and then it changed over to sleet/rain so I'll be confined to the great indoors for a while. Why again do I live in Delaware?
In the pool today I did one of my old favorite interval workouts which I have found correlates pretty well to my Olympic distance swim time. After my warm-up/drills (which was 1250 yards), I then do a broken 1500--500/400/300/200/100 set of intervals. The twist on this one is that I go on the equivalent of 2 minutes per hundred (so after swimming the 500 I start the 400 at 10:00, etc.). It's a lot of recovery time so it allows me to push all of the segments (although by the time you get to the 200 and 100 you can be pretty cooked if you do it right). Anyways, I keep track of my total time which today was 23:48. I have found that this correlates reasonably well to my 1500 meter (open water/tapered/wetsuit/drafting) time if I add 2:00-2:30 and it correlates to my half-ironman swim if I add 10:00-10:30. This would imply a 1500 meter time of 25:48-26:18 (1:34-1:36/100 yds). The half-ironman equivalent is 33:48-34:18 (1:37-1:38). Historically, I've been happy with my competitive swim times when my 1500 broken interval test comes in at 22:30--so some work to do (about 5 seconds/100)....
Lots of indoor time ahead of me so my swim will get it's fair share of attention....
Tomorrow, a speed session on the tready....and a trip to NYC--amtrak willing!
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