Christmas Swimming Sessions
On the night* before Christmas, all through the venue,
Triathletes were stirring, with not a clue,
Swim kits were hung, by the door with due care,
In the hope that the Christmas swim would soon be there.
For Tri Training Harder had prepared a surprise,
A swim set for Christmas without the mince pies,
Alarm bells are ringing, without further ado,
The Christmas sets time for a debut!
*or so
12 Sets of Christmas
On the first rep of Christmas, my True Love* gave to me:
12 Lengths of warm up,
11 Leg throw-downs
10 Lengths of fins and paddles
9 Lengths of sculling
8 Single Arms
7 Strokes per breath
6 Tumble Turns
5 Gold sprints
4 Mins of kicking
3 Butterflies
2 Breasts strokes
and a pair of Medley
*Not technically true...
In normal Jargon:
All with Christmas spirit length recovery – as much time as the group/you needs
300m warm up, mixed stroke
10x25m with 11 leg throw-downs on the block, underwater dolphin kick for as far as you can go, get out and walk the recovery back to the blocks
250m paddles and fins
225m alternating F/C, sculling (Front, beneath shoulder, left side, right side)
200m Single arm (alternating left and right) with fins
100m breathing every 7th stroke
175m of fast turns (in from and back to the flags)
5x25m best effort sprints
4 mins of vertical thinking (hands above the water surface – streamline if possible)
3x25m Fly best effort,
2x25m Old English breast stroke
200m Medley, as a pair, one doing arms, one doing legs, swap for the second half of each stroke: eg fly arms, fly legs, back arms, back legs etc)
Merry Christmas everyone!