100s in the Pool

I've been saying a lot that I need to do some shorter/harder workouts as I've been really "endurance" focused lately. (I most recently mentioned this in last Saturday's post where I talked about a long swim.) I took that advice this past week and did some 100s in the pool when I usually do 200s, pyramids, or broken 200s and 400s.

After a longer warm-up (still can't fully escape my "endurance" mindset), I did 12x100 with 30 sec rest. I don't think I've done more than 10 since pre-Covid, and I did rest on the longer side (with something like 20 sec being on the shorter side) so I'd be able to go a bit harder. Here's what I swam:

1:27.2, 1:29.8, 1:27.9, 1:28.5, 1:28.4, 1:29.0, 1:29.3, 1:28.7, 1:29.1, 1:28.2, 1:28.1, 1:26.4

= 1:28.38 / 100 ave

I had no expectations, so I didn't have strong feelings about this one way or another. After the first few intervals, I wondered if I could keep them all under 1:30 (and I did... barely), so that was good. But those last 4 hurt: 1:29 was hard, the next 2 both at 1:28 felt HORRIBLE (in a good way, like I was working), and then that last one at 1:26 was all I could muster.

Warm-up, a pretty visible 12x100, some kick drills, and a cool down.

That swim was Tuesday. I was going to do a shorter/harder bike workout on Thursday but decided not to as I had a shorter/harder track workout planned for Friday. So 3 shorter/harder workouts than usual over 4 days sounded like a bad idea. Back soon with some details from Friday's track workout!