Every January, US Masters does a virtual race for distance - swim as far as you can in 60 minutes. Well, we decided to put that in the program for this week, only because it's birthday week. Yesterday, 51x100s was on the list. This provided a nice warm up for today's Postal Swim. For so cal dwellers, we are having so low temps at night. It was 39 degrees on the pool deck this morning, and our Master's Coach wondered what I was doing there--to go postal, that's what. Anyway, he recruited an age grouper to take my splits, and off we went at 6:30.
Felt very good the whole way. Split the lane with fellow master's swimmer Cheryl who also was looking strong. My goal was 4800 yards. My PR from 2004 (pre triathlon days) was 5,115 yds. I figure 8 years older means I get to be a little slower. Pretty much even split the entire swim, and managed to rake in 4900 yards in 60 minutes and 5 seconds. The 5 seconds basically takes it to a 4875 official distance.
By the 1,000s -- 12:12, 12:11, 12:14, 12:23
By the 500s -- 6:07, 6:07, 6:04, 6:07, 6:06, 6:08, 6:11, 6:12, 6:12 and a 4:52 500.
By the 1650s -- 20:07 20:13 and a 19:45 for 1,600
One notable split was the IM distance of 4200 yards (4,155 yds officially) of 51:29. Swim training for Oceanside and the rest of 2013 on track!
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