Run and swim

I had a 40 minute run with strides followed by a pretty intensive pool workout on the schedule today.  The run went really well but the swim only went okay.  I was supposed to do 6×100 warmup, 4×400, 2×150 cooldown.  Everything went well until my feet started cramping during the last 100 meters of the third 400 on my main set.  I got to thinking that the swim was taking entirely too long (I was already in the pool for 1.5 hrs and the workout was only supposed to take the normal person 40 minutes).  Something was wrong with my calculations of how big the pool really is.

If you know anything about Urban Active, you know that their pools are smaller than a normal lap pool.  Today, I decided to count out the tiles on the side of the pool and then find something that I could take home with me that I could compare to the length of the tiles.  After I did my calculations, I found out that instead of 4 laps being 100 meters, 4 laps was actually 143 meters.  It actually made sense because even though I was swimming slow, I know that I wasn’t swimming that slow.

I called it quits after the 3rd set of 400 and packed it home.  When I got home, I verified that I did roughly 2,563 meters.  And if you’re keeping track at home, my overall workout had me scheduled at 2,500 meters so I did a little extra today .

-ZJ