Swimming Lap After Lap After Lap

Big swim today - 120 lengths of the pool. Turns out that although this is quite a long way, the time passes surprisingly quickly. And doing so many lengths, you get time to think about your stroke. Or something like that.

Workout:

  • Type: Swim
  • Date: 03/25/2010
  • Time: 08:52:50
  • Total Time: 1:12:00.00
  • Calories: 613
  • Distance: 2,743.2 m
  • Average Pace: 2:37.53/100m

Filed under: Ashington, Swim

3 Responses to “ Swimming Lap After Lap After Lap ”

  1. Cyclin' Missy on March 25, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    Hey! I just wanted to say that while I’m training for my first tri, I have been really enjoying reading about your IronMan training. It’s just nice to read about someone experiencing similar things (only on a larger scale than me). It sounds like you’re going to have a great race!

  2. princessrn320 on March 25, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    how do you keep count? just curious!

  3. Karl On Sea on March 26, 2010 at 10:12 am

    Funny that - I don’t know. If I’m swimming 400m sets, I cannot keep count to save my life. In fact, even just swimming 100m reps (i.e. 4 lengths), I can lose count. So I use the countdown timer on my watch - if it says there’s more than a minute left, I need to do another lap.

    When doing these endurance sessions though, there’s less pressure and as I set off on each odd numbered length I repeat the number several times in my head. I also do mental association - “When I was NINE I . . . “; “In 1914 the First World War started”; “42 - answer to life, the universe and everything”; “43 - a prime number”; etc.