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Sprint oriented workouts.
This was one of those “odd” fly/sprint workouts from the Lancy Natation Elite Group. Getting ready to race long course in March, keeping the yardage up was a constant in all swim workouts in that period. Those sessions are either relaxed longer or short sprint swims.
These are the swim workouts my two training groups in Vevey did on their first day back in the pool for the new season.
This workout was written for professional Ironman athlete Mike Aigroz as he was getting ready to compete at the Ironman 70.3 Ireland.
Overall aerobic Thursday for the team in Vevey. With limited time in the morning, the focus was on a longer afternoon workout including options for our more sprint and distance focused athletes.
Some more needed recovery after the hard pace workout the previous day. Mixed some longer kicking in the morning and shorts sprints in the afternoon to break the old habit of just swimming back and forth.
Monday evening starting the week for the Lancy Natation Elite group with a “classical” in season sprint workout mixing lots of long and smooth swims with short high intensity sprints.
After the lactate workout the previous morning, we went back to some more distance and recovery focused swimming in the morning.
This Tuesday evening session is a good example of a typical in season sprint workout from the Lancy Natation Elite group during the 2008-2009 campaign. Mixing short, high quality sprints with lots of longer recovery swimming.
After half a day off and the big 100×100 set the previous morning, we had to get back to work. We still like the idea of doing the same warm-up but you’ll notice that we adapted it to the work we’ll be doing for the second week of the camp.
Aerobic focused Wednesday morning workout with a twist of speed work from the Lancy Natation Elite group.