I met Goody at Jordanelle this morning at 5am. Jill and Tim showed up a little bit later when we were already in the water.
I've been thinking a lot about more effective open water training swims, and decided that I would swim 4 loops of a shorter course and try to negative split each one, rather than swim straight for two hours.
The loops I swam started at the green buoy and went east to the end of the buoy line and back. My GPS accidentally reset when I was trying to measure how long one loop was. I'll take that measurement next time I'm up there. UPDATE: This loop is 1360 yards
The first loop I swam easy to get warmed up, and then tried to get progressively faster with each of the three remaining loops. Here are the results:
Loop 1 - 24:02
Loop 2 - 23:32
Loop 3 - 22:15
Loop 4 - 21:16
Between laps 2 and 3, I swam in to the dock and got a drink. I was happy to make each lap just a little faster than the one before. It was a nice workout and felt more productive than just swimming straight.
I talked to Goody for a bit after I had finished my last lap. He's got his Lake Tahoe crossing coming up and is training hard for it.
I've got a post in the works with some ideas for making open water workout swims more productive. I'll be posting that soon. I was thinking today, it would be cool to post some open water workouts the day before we go up for a group swim so that anyone who showed up could follow it. I could probably even print it out and post it on one of the buoys. That way, open water group swims would have more of a focus and be more similar to a Masters workout. UPDATE: The post referenced above is here. You can search for the "Jordanelle Workouts" tag for the workouts.
I'm planning to go back up on Wednesday at 5:00am if anyone wants to join me.
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