HTT #5

I'm sore in many places today. Last night's workout was brutal. We met at Palolo and ran for about 15-20 minutes around the field. Then we did drills. Lots and lots of drills: High-knees, skipping, butt-kicks, side-hop, walking lunges, and 4 rounds of building strides. I guess our high-knees sucked because they made us do them 4 times. That was our first drill and by the last round, I was already exhausted. The worst was the walking lunges though, half-way across the field your legs are burning. This morning, I find that my calves, quads, glutes, and hip-flexors are all wasted. I guess it was a successful workout.

After all these drills, we did a 15 minute easy out and back. It took most of that time for my legs to start feeling remotely normal again. After a stretch, next up were crunches: regular, flutter-kick, and just holding your legs out for a while (ugh).

Finally we went to the pool. We got videoed last night, so we didn't do too much of a workout. Just the normal drills of finger-drag, fist-swim, catch-up, etc. The only one that was newish to me was the bilateral breathing every fifth stroke. The idea was to do 50 while breathing every third stroke (which is my normal swim anyway), and then another 50 breathing every fifth. I couldn't make the whole 50 at every fifth, I would just run out of air, so I threw an occassional every-third in there.

We finished up with a 50m all-out swim where the coach said our times. I got 42s. Looking around, I was delighted to see I was no where near last. I wasn't first, but there weren't many people on the wall when I got there. Also, about 15m into it, my left calf cramped up, so I couldn't really kick. I just let it drag behind me. So, I'm pleased with my time. Actually, thinking about it, we went the short way across the pool and back, so it was actually 50y not m.