Current mood:

accomplished

Just Keep Swimming...
I'm so very happy! In the midst of the madness of junior year, while drowning in internship applications and fearfully eyeing the annual paper on the horizon, I managed to design (in my head, too, while I was swimming) a great 1 hour, 2500 yard swim workout. Check it:

Warm Up: 500 yards freestyle
400 IM: swim, drill, kick, swim

Kicking: 250 yards breastroke kick
250 yards freestyle kick

Intervals: 6 50s freestyle on the :45
3 100s freestyle on the 1:30

Cool Down: 500 yards freestyle

The first two sections each take twenty minutes to swim, the second two, ten minutes each. The intervals are the cardio-intensive part of the workout, but the 400 IM should be done with a good amount of oomph as well. Anyways, I'm going to see if I can think of some more variants - I've already created a 2000 meter version for my friend Steffanie. Compared to what I used to swim back in the glory days, this workout's pretty weak, but it's a good starting point.