The tough workouts keep coming ...

Legs still tired from yesterday's ride, I had a swim and a legs/core strength session on the books today.

The masters swim was a good one, though exhausting. On the advice of Rich Thornton, one of the coaches, I've added a set of 25yd pulls with a band only immediately following the warmup. This is how the Aussie swimmers train, and it definitely takes some power as the legs just tend to drop. Today's focus was on non-free strokes, and the main set (shortened a bit for me) was 4x(4x75), in reverse IM order (free, breast, back, fly). The 75's were done as kick/pull/swim by 25. The breaststroke set worked me over since I'm not that efficient, and I put on fins for the fly (and skipped the pull, instead just doing 50 swim after the kick). After a set of 4x200 to finish up, I could barely pull myself out of the pool. (I love swim workouts that leave me completely worn out.)

I debated dropping the legs/core strength session (or at least postponing it) due to the lingering fatigue from the bike ride, and to get more recovery time in before the long run scheduled tomorrow, but in the end I decided to go for it. In retrospect, I probably hit it too hard, especially in the glute/quad work. We'll have to wait and see how I feel on the run tomorrow ...