tokyo running days

A marathoner / newbie triathlete's training blog.

Sunday, April 30

土曜日、1.5km完泳。

木曜、金曜と多忙で走れず、泳げず、バイク乗れず。

昨日土曜日、早めに終わった仕事の帰りに東京体育館のプールへ。今日は「距離」にフォーカスすることにした。これまで、ノンストップで泳げている最長距離は1000m。しかも25mプールでのこと。今回は50mプールで、少なくとも1300m、あわよくば1500mに挑戦するぞ、との決意で泳ぎ始める。

最初はちょっと泳ぎがぎこちなくて「もつかな?」と心配だったのだが、1000mを過ぎたあたりから水に慣れてきたのかラクになってきて、そのまま調子よく泳いでいたら、意外と簡単に1500mを完泳してしまった。時間も計ってみた。だいたいだけど、40分を少々切るぐらい。これなら、レースでも、1時間以内には泳げるんではないだろうか。ちょっと安心した。

結局この日は2.5km泳いだ。

1.5km non stop swim.

No running, bike and swim on Thursday and Friday due to work.

Saturday, afterwork, I went to Tokyo Taiikukan to swim. I focused on "distance" this time. My last longest dinstance was 1000m at a 25m pool, but when I did it, I felt I could swim more. So I dare to set 1500m for today's goal distance.

First, I felt awkward in the water, but after passing 1000m, I felt more comfortable and completed 1500m without struggling. I timed it this time and it was a bit less than 40min. This brought me some relief to my fear that I might have to pull out at the swimming part at the race.

◎Today's distance: 2.5km swim

3 Comments:

At May 01, 2006, Blogger Keren_m said...

Well done! The more you swim the more comfortable you will become. And I plan to lead us on a long "open water" ocean swim to practice wetsuit swimming before the IM, probably on the 20th or 21st.

 
At May 01, 2006, Blogger mika t. said...

Thank you, Keren. I am looking forward to my first-in-my-lifetime ocean swim!

 
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