Finals Seasons? More like slacking season

Day 1:
Of finals season and its already not going great, I mean today it was a case of it being up and down.  The goal of these next two weeks is to hopefully do well on finals, but also set myself up for a couple solid weeks of training to springboard into race season.  I'll be posting a little bit more about that later. This morning I thought hey I have time to go do a swim so I should probably do a long swim right.  I always seem to find myself with my back against the wall with a giant swim plan staring down at me. Today's was a nice 3000 meter swim

1000m general warmup (500 swim, 300 kick, 200 pull)
It's kinda interesting because I still remember when I first started swimming and even something as short as 50m left me completely destroyed, but hey now I've managed to drag out the amount I can do before I feel absolutely spent.

This was followed by a kick pyramid that was meant to help improve my kick in my swim. Now the ironic thing is that coming from a cycling and running background, my kick should be really strong, but the weird thing is that my kick in my swim is probably not as strong as it should be given that I have relatively strong legs.  However doing 10x50's on a pyramid (1:10, 1:05, 1:00, 0:55, 0:50, 0:50, 0:55, 1:00, 1:05 and 1:10) left my legs completely done.  Like the 50's were bordering on me going full out for 50 seconds and just barely making it back to the wall and sometimes not even making it.  So this drill will probably become a staple of my workouts in the coming months to make sure that I'm keeping up the powerful kick.

The kick pyramid was followed by a set of pull intervals because I want to see if I can pull more water because I think the technique needs a little bit of work, but it should come with time.  I'm pretty sure if anyone saw me swim when I first started they would be appalled with how poorly I swam.  The intervals were done on 1:40 and that was pretty much pushing me to the limit, sometimes past it and it's definitely going to be a goal to hit the 1:40 times, but hey nobody ever said this was going to be easy right?

500m cool down..... that's all nothing more nothing less.

I have a lot of respect for pros in any type of sports, be it running, cycling, swimming etc, there's just something smooth about the way they go about stuff.  Like if you watch Kenyans run, they're just unbelievably good at what they do, and the same is for swimming.  I remember studying for an exam and just being horrendously distracted looking at swimmers because they just kinda glide through the water, one can aspire to be like them.

Hopefully I will get back to blogging again about how training is going, and update our race schedule, I think most of Jess' and I sched has been finalized so that should be going up soon.  I really should get back to studying.

~Cheers