1 Jan 2007 - Happy New Year
Well after a dry and chocolate free Christmas ;-( it was back in the pool again last Wednesday - felt terrible just after 4 days of not being in the water.
I had planned last week to be a 'quiet' week - which it was and still needed to get through 18k of various excercises concentrating mainly on speed and lactate work again. Prior to Christmas I had spent a week mainly doing 100m and 200m simulated races - which was good pace testing work. So this week was 1000m of lactate and race pace drills each of the pool sessions which was very tiring. My leg muscles were shaking when I got out the pool on Friday. Still I managed to get some reaosnalble times, as well as you can time your self, about 22-24s for 50m surface and always under the 2 mins (about 1:58) for 200m.
I witnessed a very interesting dive reflex one day with the heart rate monitor in the water on Friday. After doing some hypoxic work my HR was always around the 80-90 at the end of 100m. On the last 100 (breathing every 8th stroke) my HR was 89 and within seconds of lifting my face out of the water it rose to 112 and then gradually declined back to about over the next minute.
Well back in the water again this week for the final run into the competition. 2 weeks of specific race and pace practice and then I start the taper. I will be going for the early morning sessions in order to try and shift my body clock closer to Aus time.
I had planned last week to be a 'quiet' week - which it was and still needed to get through 18k of various excercises concentrating mainly on speed and lactate work again. Prior to Christmas I had spent a week mainly doing 100m and 200m simulated races - which was good pace testing work. So this week was 1000m of lactate and race pace drills each of the pool sessions which was very tiring. My leg muscles were shaking when I got out the pool on Friday. Still I managed to get some reaosnalble times, as well as you can time your self, about 22-24s for 50m surface and always under the 2 mins (about 1:58) for 200m.
I witnessed a very interesting dive reflex one day with the heart rate monitor in the water on Friday. After doing some hypoxic work my HR was always around the 80-90 at the end of 100m. On the last 100 (breathing every 8th stroke) my HR was 89 and within seconds of lifting my face out of the water it rose to 112 and then gradually declined back to about over the next minute.
Well back in the water again this week for the final run into the competition. 2 weeks of specific race and pace practice and then I start the taper. I will be going for the early morning sessions in order to try and shift my body clock closer to Aus time.
posted by Simon at 7:28 AM
1 Comments:
Watching your heart rate can be very good for your training. I don't know what you would have such a change like that. If you know someone in the medical field, perhaps you could inquire to them.
Great idea to get used to Australian time. When we went to Majorca in 2000 for the World Championships, it took my daughter a few days to get used to the time different from Texas. It will be all the more important going to Australia.
Keep up the training. I know you are going to do great.
Take care and have a Happy New Year.
Robert Kelly
DRK1996@aol.com
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