More trainning
I joined Lifetime again last night. It only cost $15 to be added back onto my wife’s plan, which is not what I thought it cost last time. Next month, it will be an additional $50/month for me.
This morning we left at normal time, 4:40am, to head out for a swim at Lifetime. Lifetime is a 24×7 gym, but they don’t have anyone working the front desk in the middle of the night, so you have to ring the door bell. One of the staff who is prepping the building for normal hours comes out and opens the door. This took about 3 minutes, which was fine because we were all bundled up against the cold and the front vestibule was protecting us from the worst of the cold anyway, but I wasn’t sure whoever it was that was supposed to unlock the door actually heard the bell. It was my first time this early, so I waited patiently.
I need not have worried about the bell. About 30 minutes later, while swimming I hear the front bell ring. It is not so much that it is really loud, but it must chime from every speaker in the entire building.
Swimming that early on the weekend was cool it was not until I was getting out at 6:10 that someone else was finally getting in. I like having the pool to myself but I am sure during the week it picks up earlier.
I got in 3800 meters, or a little less than 2.5 miles.
This morning I did 400 free, 300 back, 200 free, 100 back as a warmup. Originally I thought I would 200s, starting at 3:00 and dropping 5 seconds until I couldn’t make one. But I wanted to do at least 5 200s, so I did 5×200 on 3:00. This ended up being more aerobic than I wanted, but oh well. Following that with 5×100 back on 1:50 to loosen up for my sprint set. The sprint set was 10×50s on a 1:00 holding 35, which ended up being too easy. It got me breathing hard, but I should have tried holding 32s. The rest of the workout was supposed to be aerobic pace, and was 12×25 kick on side, down right, back left and a 300 cool down.
The goals for Saturdays are to do some hard 200s, and some short sprints with Sundays being purely aerobic longer distance stuff. Both days will have kick components and shoot for more than 4k meters.