The Long Aerobic Swim

The long aerobic swim is a bit dull.  But I'm working on the assumption that it's a necessary evil.  A long run, a long ride, and a long swim.  Everything I read, that's pretty much Base Training for the Fe-man.

Last Saturday was another mini-Big Day: 1/2 hour swim, 3 hour indoor ride, 1 hour run with reverse split.  (Under 8:00 pace!  woo hoo!)  That felt great.  But Sunday, I was pretty wiped out. It was a scheduled easy day - just weights - but didn't know how today would go.

Long aerobic swim at lunchtime today:  90 minutes with only a total of about 30 sec break for a couple sips of water.  Well, it went pretty good.  Started out at 1:44 per 100 yd pace, and finished up at 1:48 per 100 yd pace.  Started out at 10 right arm strokes per 25 yards, finised at 11.  This was my second swim of 5000+ yds, and it was better.

As the weather warms up, hope to work in a couple days of bikes after that: the swim/bike brick.  We'll see.