Daily Double

Tuesdays are my daily double days where I try to fit in two workouts.

Tuesday morning:  This morning’s swim had both building and descending.  Here was the main set:

1. 300yds IM (75yds of fly, back, breast, free), focus on technique, i.e. not drowning especially on the butterfly
2. 200yds free FAST
3. 200yds IM, focus on technique
4. 300yds free FAST
5. 100yds IM
6. 400yds free FAST

The IMs got shorter while the freestyle got longer.  This was one long, tiring set.

Tuesday evening:  THE LOG BOOM IS DOWN.  If you do not row for Lake Merritt, you probably are not aware of this long log boom that goes up in the lake every winter and spring.  The log boom sections off about a quarter of the lake in order to create a bird refuge.  I love nature and all, but this log boom makes the lake smaller for us rowers and has us turning more frequently, which after six months, can be very annoying. 

This evening, we had 1 eight, 1 women’s double, and 1 men’s single out on the water.  The Bay Blades had 1 single, 1 double, and 1 quad.  The quad did pieces with us. 

We warmed up the entire lake, all the way down the Embarcadero fountain and back to the dam.  The workout today was 3x1000m race pieces with starts and sprints at 38spm in the start and 34spm in the body of the pieces.

The first piece felt heavy and all over the place.  The second piece had much better rhythm, and the last piece was alright.  1,000 meters felt like a long distance today.