No Hamster Wheel Today!  It’s LCM Pool!

Last Chance, Last Swim For GARMIN.  Today my Apple Watch Ultra comes so this is my last GARMIN workout and sleep score. Actually depending on battery life I may sleep with GARMIN if I need to charge the Apple Watch Ultra. Only time will tell (get it, pun intended).

First 500 – 7:56-ish 

Second 500 – 7:46- ish

First 5×100’s – Descended each one by 1 sec

Second 5×100’s – Have no idea.  Struggling to survive and breath. Since I had to change my preworkout before my bloodwork I gotta say I spend most of my thinking on not puking as I went hypoxic.  But at the last 100 I was blowing chucks I got the gutter. I was hovering at 1:30.  Think my last one was just below 1:20. 

Finished with 2,700 LCM or 95,500 for the year so far. Friday will be Drill/Technique so probably SCM. Next Monday is Endurance so LCM. Starting next week Wednesdays will no longer be LCM but SCM and SCY. Yuck. Hamster in a wheel swimming!!!

OURA RING – 61

4 hours and 15 minutes

41% REM and Recovery

FAIR

GARMIN SLEEP SCORE – 72

6 hours and 0 minutes

FAIR

FITBIT SLEEP SCORE – 55

5 hours and 31 minutes

POOR

MASTERS SWIM – WEDNESDAY 8/12/26 – LCM INTERVALS

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59:05

ZONE 1 – 05:33

ZONE 2 – 17:48

ZONE 3 – 16:27

ZONE 4 – 13:48

ZONE 5 – 04:03

WARM UP: (500)

300 Free

50 Fist / 100 Swim / 50 Fist

SET ONE: (1,000/1,500)

500 Free on 9:00

5 x 100’s in 1:50

SET TWO: (1,000/2,500)

500 Free on 8:45

5 x 100’s on 1:40

COOL DOWN (200/2,700)

100 Kick / 100 Pull

JUST KEEP SWIMMING:

2026 SWIM DISTANCE TOTALS:  (including last swim)

SCY – 42,100

SCM – 33,950

LCM – 95,500

USMS 5,000 LCM POSTAL August 28th-ish

25th Annual Gainesville Senior Games 9/13/26

2026 Rob Curry Pancake Pentathlon 09/19/26

THE LIFT AHEAD:

THU – BACK & TEACH 30 Min INDOOR CYCLE 

FRI – SWIM w/ Team 

SAT – CHEST

SUN – BACK & MORE

MON – SWIM w/ Team

TUE – CHEST & TEACH 30 Min INDOOR CYCLE 

WED – SWIM w/ Team

STRENGTH (80-100%) 6/23 – 8/23

ENDURANCE (60 – 80%) 8/24 – 9/3

TAPER (Below 60%) 9/4 – 9/12)

runDISNEY:

WDW 5K – JANUARY 8th, 2027

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Gemini AI Rate My Workout:

Crushing a 2,700 LCM set at 4:52 AM—pre-workout changes and near-gutter-vomiting included—is pure grit. Moving from a 7:56 to a 7:46 on the 500s while dropping down to sub-1:20 on the final 100 shows you didn’t let the hypoxic wall stop you.

Workout Rating: 9.2 / 10

• Intensity & Output (10/10): Spending nearly 18 minutes combined in Zones 4 and 5 during long-course meter intervals is serious engine work.
• Pacing & Progression (9/10): Dropping 10 seconds off your second 500 free while tightening the interval from 9:00 to 8:45 shows solid negative-splitting discipline.
• Volume (9/10): 2,700 LCM hits the sweet spot for late-stage strength phase training ahead of your upcoming taper.

Heart Rate Zone Distribution ZoneTime SpentTraining Focus Zone 105:33Warm-up / Cool-down Zone 217:48Aerobic Base Building Zone 316:27Aerobic Tempo Zone 413:48Threshold / Hypoxic Work Zone 504:03Maximum Sprint Effort

Key Highlights & Metrics

• Total Session Time: 59:05
• YTD LCM Distance: 95,500 meters (171,550 total meters across all course lengths)
• Sleep Recovery Warning: Scores were split across devices (Oura: 61, Garmin: 72, Fitbit: 55). Poor sleep recovery combined with a modified pre-workout likely contributed heavily to the nausea during Zone 5 efforts.

Enjoy unboxing the Apple Watch Ultra today. How are you planning to adjust your pre-workout setup before Friday’s SCM technique swim?