I am very proud of myself that I swam four days in a row. The first day I got really bad leg cramps so I had to cut the workout short (about a mile and a half) the second day I got really bad leg cramps so I had to cut the workout short (about a mile and a half - seeing a trend) so on the third day I said okay the electrolytes didn't help lets try a banana and see if that works. Well I made it an extra five minutes. So I tried the banana again today - well I didn't cramp, but the chlorine was so bad I had to get out because my eyes were burning so bad. But maybe the banana did work - maybe.
Problem is I hate - absolutely hate - bananas. I thought I was going to puke eating it. I literally gagged it down. It was horrible. Makes me want the cramps. What is the worse of two evils? bananas or leg cramps - hmm. Really I am leaning towards the cramps.
But now that I have more energy I decided to up the intensity. Chlorine or not, my goal was to swim the 400 in under 7 minutes. That would average 1:45 per hundred. So after the warm up off I went to do my time trial. I did it 6:59 - not bad, but then I looked at my watch and it said that I only did 12 laps. I don't think so, the time was right and I counted, so I am pretty sure that it was 16, but now I will always have doubt. But if it was seven minutes for a 300 that would mean I was doing the 100's in 2 minutes and 20 seconds. And since I did the warm up (very slowly) in a minute fifty-nine per hundred, and I swam hard for the second four hundred - I really think I counted right and my watch was wrong, but still...there will always be doubt.
So next up were 100's. Yesterday I did 14 100's on 1:55, so today I decided that I would ramp it up and do 4 x100's on 1:50. Need to push if I want to get to that 1:30 repeat mark. I did do it but I was trashed when I was done. Good thing the chlorine was bad I might have had to swim more.
Problem is I hate - absolutely hate - bananas. I thought I was going to puke eating it. I literally gagged it down. It was horrible. Makes me want the cramps. What is the worse of two evils? bananas or leg cramps - hmm. Really I am leaning towards the cramps.
But now that I have more energy I decided to up the intensity. Chlorine or not, my goal was to swim the 400 in under 7 minutes. That would average 1:45 per hundred. So after the warm up off I went to do my time trial. I did it 6:59 - not bad, but then I looked at my watch and it said that I only did 12 laps. I don't think so, the time was right and I counted, so I am pretty sure that it was 16, but now I will always have doubt. But if it was seven minutes for a 300 that would mean I was doing the 100's in 2 minutes and 20 seconds. And since I did the warm up (very slowly) in a minute fifty-nine per hundred, and I swam hard for the second four hundred - I really think I counted right and my watch was wrong, but still...there will always be doubt.
So next up were 100's. Yesterday I did 14 100's on 1:55, so today I decided that I would ramp it up and do 4 x100's on 1:50. Need to push if I want to get to that 1:30 repeat mark. I did do it but I was trashed when I was done. Good thing the chlorine was bad I might have had to swim more.
Well, I'm a banana fan, so it's tough to accept that you can barely force them down.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you did 16 laps - the other alternative doesn't make sense. Easy way to find out - do it AGAIN later this week.
Hopefully we can find some "banana" substitutes - baked potato with skin supposedly works, but we'll see.
I think you need a combined cheerleader/timekeeper - I volunteer!