03/18/04 Breaststroke 40-minute Taper Practice

03/18/04 Breaststroke 50-minute Taper PracticeToday's Thursday. I've got a meet tomorrow night (400 IM) and on Saturday (3 breaststroke events). I wanted to go easy today but still do some fast lengths.WARMUP: 800With fins. Two 400 "IMs." Did these as follows:4 X (25 Butterfly drill + 25 Backstroke drill + 25 Breaststroke drill) + 100 FreeChange the drills each time.MAIN SET #1: 300Swim twice through the following. The pulling and kicking are really EZ. The first 50 is easy speed; the second 50 is fast but not all out.25 scull with pull buoy + 50 breast kick with no board + 25 scull with pull buoy.50 Breast MAIN SET #2: 20025 scull with pull buoy + 50 breast kick with no board + 25 scull with pull buoy.4 X 25 Breast on :30 sendoff. Try to hold each 25 at a time that is your target 100 time divided by 4.WARMDOWN: 200200 EZTotal Yardage: 1500