Training - Day 1

I decided to get more serious about my training today. It's so easy to get lazy in the winter. But with so many events looming in my future, I thought I better get started.

Some of my friends who are doing the same Half-Ironman as I in August (Timberman) hired a trainer who has them on schedule. This makes me panic, which is why I'm getting going and which is why I decided to follow their swim drill today. This is what it is (from memory):
10-minutes warm-up
8X50
1. Left arm down - swim back
2. Right arm down - swim back
3. Fists down - swim back
4. Catch-up down - swim back
6x75 Freestyle (I think) <-- Why doesn't he just say 9 laps ?
4X50 anything but freestyle
4x25
1. both legs kick
2. Kick Left side
3. kick right side
4. Kick back
Cool Down 10 minutes
This was supposedly 3/4's of a mile - I was in the pool longer than when I swim a mile though..something like 55 minutes. And, I honestly have no idea what I was supposed to do. Their were 20-second rests mentioned all over the sheet, which I took to mean in-between drills, but now think they must go in-between sets of laps. Also, I have no idea what a "fists down" swim is (I just swam freestyle with fists instead of my hands open) and thought I would never get across the pool on the last 4X25's. Just kicking with no other help is the most inefficient swim I've ever done. Maybe I should have employed a kick board??? I cut those short actually because it was taking too long to get across the pool.

That's it for my start of training. Tomorrow? Gym then running.

Off to lunch and the doggies.