This morning I went to my second workout with my new Masters (adult recreational) swim club.
Last time I got sick just after the warmup and had to leave early, but this time I made it all the way through the workout, and swam 1800m in total.
Yay!
Today’s Pre-Workout Breakfast
I opted for a 100g cup of Yogurt this morning, shortly after waking up. A little bit of energy to start the day, but not as much as the 2 pieces of toast with honey I had last time that didn’t agree with me.
I ate a regular breakfast when I came home from my workout.
Today’s Lane Configuration
There were four of us in Lane Four this morning – one of the ladies who was in Lane Four last week decided to join Lane Three (faster lane) and I just about joined her too, but there were six people in that lane already, so I opted for the less crowded lane.
It turned out that Lane Four had two groups in it – myself and a guy by the name of Matt were the faster of the two, and quite a bit faster so that we ended up lapping the other two in various sets.
Matt and I shared lead depending on what we were working on – his freestyle is stronger than mine but the rest of his strokes are weaker, and when we had a choice of what stroke to work on for some sculling and drill sets I chose breast-stroke and he chose freestyle, so we swapped back and forth during the set itself as well.
Today’s Workout
The workout itself was this, and is all in meters:
- 400 easy (warmup)
- 4×200 drill – choose one stroke and do the following:
50 sculling, 50 swim x 2
200 swim
50 drill, 50 kick x 2
200 swim - 10 x 50 in this way:
25 fly, 25 free x 5
25 back, 25 free x 2
25 breast, 25 free x 2
25 choice, 25 free - 100 easy (warmdown)
The 10 x 50 set was originally written as 20 x 50 with 5 of each stroke, but we only have an hour and were running out of time so the Coach cut down on the back/breast/free/choice ones after we were already done the 5 sets of butterfly.
The Community
I have set a mini-goal of learning and retaining one person’s name per workout, because everyone is new and strange to me. I’m looking forward to learning everyone’s names but know that it takes time for me to remember and recognize everyone.
Last week when I left early, another woman left around the same time from another one of the lanes, and we got to chat a little bit before we left, so I learned her name. I made sure to talk to her this week when I recognized her (and as it goes, I didn’t recognize her with her clothes on, only in her bathing suit with her hair all wet and face all red from working out) and we talked briefly about how we both felt ill that day but are feeling much better today.
I met another woman this morning – the one who moved from Lane Four to Lane Three… that gave me a conversation starter at the end of the workout and we exchanged names at that point.
It’ll probably take me a few months to learn everyone’s names at this rate, but by the time the first competition comes around in November I should be able to cheer nearly everyone on our team on by name :)
Next workout? Monday, 6 AM!
