Pain? Game!
November 9th, 2007 at 1:10 pm (Swimming)
This morning at approximately 5:56am I learned how short and easy a 200 butterfly is.
My set was this (my set, because Natascha has gone off to college):
10×100 pull with paddles, free/fly by 25’s
5×250 with fins, 2x{75 fly, 50 free}, negative splitting the fly
3×600, #1 is 600 fly, #2 is 400 fly 200 easy, #3 is 200 fly 400 easy
My paddles kept falling apart during the 10×100’s, so I only got in about 2200 yards of butterfly.
The last set, with the 600, 400 and 200 butterfly, made me worry at first when I saw it, but then it actually turned out to be fun. The first 200 or so of each distance was hard, but then after that my arms just went numb, and there was no more pain! Hurray!
After practice, Kate decreed that tonight, Adam, Allison, Iza, Sammi, and I would get a treat, because we had made all the practices so far this month and done them well. (When asked to elaborate, she said that we’d have it “a little easier” than everyone else.)
Sure enough, we got our treat. She made the five of us do a 1000 kick for time (I got 16:06), but then she took out a 150ft rope and we played — you guessed it — tug o’ war. In the water.
We tried all sorts of crazy combinations, with four people tied to the rope, or people doing different strokes, but it was all great fun. Now think of all the possibilities if we had had everyone playing tug o’ war…