Swim Hard

That's what I did today...a bunch of hard 200's

3000 yards at the rec center
800 warm up
5X200 on 3:45 (lots of rest)
100 kick
5X200 on 3:45 (lots of rest)
100 cool down

I origionally planned to do them on 4:00 but that seemed too long of a recovery so I cut the interval by :15. I wanted to do them hard every time.

Most of the time I was comming in under 3:00 with several under 2:55 in the first set. Most under 2:57 in the second set. My best was 2:50 two times.

I've noticed that the girls swim team that is there in the afternoon when I swim on Mon and Fri do their sets with a lot of rest. Mostly shorter intervals but very fast. Most of their 100's are a little quicker than mine (I'm guessing 1:15 to 1:20) but they are still doing them on 2:00. I'm also not sure what events they are training for, probably shorter stuff, that would explain why I never notice them going longer than 150's.