Busting It Big

Tuesday was a good one first at Plate City then at the pool. We did our pull workout, a first for Vicki. We performed five or six sets of the chest-supported row, some lat pulldowns, a set of Swim Pulls, and of course we finished with the Ski Erg for 4:25. One solid workout. Yes, it was cold and dark at 5:30 a.m., but by a quarter till 7:00 you could read a newspaper out there not needing a light. The days are getting longer. Praise God.

On the road, I was already cutting back, tapering for Saturday. I shuffled a mere 2.44 miles, down .44 from Monday's 2.88. I will do even less today. But it was at the pool where we went above and beyond, where we busted it big. We swam

  2,000 39:42

  12 X 100 @ 2:18 (most 1:33 - 1:36)

  50 easy

  300 RIM 6:29

  50 easy

  total: 3,600 yards

That was a good practice. It had volume, endurance, speed, heart rate work, and stroke practice. That is not everything, but most everything. It was also Tyler's longest practice ever, and he is improving like crazy. Usually I lap him three times on our long warmup set. Not last night. I was about forty yards ahead of him after 2,000 straight. He can beat me at will in a sprint, and he is better at the breast stroke. 

How did we come up with 300 on the RIM? We swam 50 free, 100 back, 100 breast, and 50 free. Yeah, that was tough for me. But we don't care about toughness. We are bad like Besides quadrathon, we have our sights set on the State Games. We are going there to kick butt and eat candy bars, and my guess is that we will be all out of candy bars by the time we arrive in Meridian two days after our epic quadrathon. Praise God.