Swim question and a nutritional question.

I recently stepped up to the silver mebership, and imported the "Basic 12 week sprint RPE " to my training schedule.

After 5 weeks of piddling around on my own with some of the free programs, I thought it was time.

I paid for some swim lessons, and am happy with the progress I'm making with my freestyle. I have a strong background in running, biking is easy enough at the sprint level for me, and when I swam before for excercise it was always sidestoke - which comes relativly easy for me. The freestyle swim is in the process of catching up.

Here's the question; On my swim days when I'm doing my laps at whatever level is required (i.e. today for 600yds - I misread and did 800yds) I'm combining my sidestoke with the freestyle with a four to six ratio - 4 lengths of freestyle, then 6 of sidestroke for recovery.
Is this permissible - or rather suggested? Or should I start from ground zero with the swim and build up only the freestyle swimming?

The ultimate goal is to change the ratio with more freestyle and less sidestroke, until the sidestroke is done. But once again, should this be in the "confines" of the imported training program?

Also, how do you put a muti-vitamin in the nutritional chart?

Thanks everybody.

Edited by CPerkins 2006-08-04 9:39 AM