We've had some really nice stuff at practice over the last few days.

A few of our main sets:

Our distace group pulled a 200-400-600-800 on Monday AM

We had a FAST set of 50s with fins and paddles on Monday AM as well.

On Monday afternoon we did a "speed limit" threshold set geared toward swimming well and fairly fast, with a low Heart Rate. Some did 3x400 (450), then 6x200 -- 3 on (225) and 3 on (220).....others did 4x200, 4x150, 4x150 free.....and others did 3x200, 4x150, 5x100 (125). We didn't look for great times here, just solid swimming. I actually put a speed limit on the swims, so we couldn't go faster than what I considered to be our Aerobic/Anaerobic threshold paces.

Tuesday was a meet day for most athletes, and an active rest set for some. The active rest set was:

PreSet (3x)

25 (30) mix
50 (45) free*
75 (115) 25 dps, 25 back, 25 drill
100 (120) free ** descend
4x25 (30) easy

Then the Main Set (which was the preset, doubled):

50 (40) free
100 (120) free*
150 (220) 50 dps, 50 back, 50 drill
200 (230) free *** descend
4x50 (50) mixed easy

On Wednesday (today) we had two groups:

One group went 18x100 (120)or (130)...or 12x100 (2) -- one swim, one kick fast.

The other group went an AWESOME mid distance stroke set:

15x200

Free (230)
FreeIM (240)
Stroke (250)*descend 1-5

(Stroke was either back or breast)

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Here is just a snapshot of some results:

Ridge pushed two 22s and a 21+ 50 free with fins and paddles
Haley went an 823.1 800 pull, after a 406 last Friday
Erika even split a 151.8 200 free after going 155,154 earlier in the set
Ridge went a 148.9 at the end of the 200s set, after a 156, 154
Nata went a 159 -- same set, after a 2:00 and a 2:02
Haley went a 157.4 -- same set, after a 1:59 and a 2:02
Bun went a lifetime best 100 back in the HS meet (107+)
Aidan went a lifetime best 100 free (48+)
(missing some HS results here I know)
Rachel kicked a 112 at the end of her set today
Sara kicked a 118 at the end of her 100s kick set today
Katie K kicked a 120 -- same set
Lincoln and Sammie did a few sub 130s today, big kicks for them
Max was sub 130 for the first time
Hayley went a 110 100 back best time after a set of 18x100 (130) evens fast
BT went a 201 200 back at the end of 15x200 (after swimming up Hayley's back for 6 strokes on the final 50) -- which is a PR by ??
Haley went 235 breast 200 after a 239 and a 240 - and did so with BT on her back for at least 6 strokes -- PR is 230.9
Rice Rice baby went a 209 back at the end of the 15x200 -- PR is 206
Maddie was 219 back -- same set -- PR is 218
Marchello was 238 -- PR is 235 -- and he probably had less than 20 seconds rest after each of the 15 200s today, sometimes getting only 5 or so. Tough.
Katie was 213 after the 15th one, with a strong set holding free and freeim tough.

....And if the stupid lighning didn't interrupt us, we would have had more unreal stats to talk about. All of these things happened in the first three days of the week....are we getting there??!?!!

I think we are.