I know there are a lot of superhuman swimmers here where 8,000yds per day, six days a week is just part of their day-to-day activities. (My shoulders hurt just typing that!) Many of us are more human and do something other than swimming. Consider me. My right shoulder was pretty wiped out at the end of March when the winter season ended, so I stayed almost completely away from the water until mid-October.
Here's where my suggestion comes in. Today, if I look at my Fitness log page it says:
My Go The Distance 2011 goal: 100.00 mi. Progress towards goal:
You'll need to pick up the pace to achieve your goal this year:
My goal pace: 99.45 miles required as of today to reach my goal by the end of the event
My actual current pace: 98.43 miles as of today
The FLOG calculator thinks I'm way behind because it's estimating my daily yardage over the entire year, thinking that I only swim 477 yards per day.
I think it would be better if the FLOG calculator confined its estimate of your expected yardage using just your yardage from the last 30 days or so.
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Excellent point. BTW: How do I access the fitness logs to set an achievable goal?? Have not been successful finding any link to get there.
jg
I'm not sure they have anything like that, but this is what I did: I took what I could (at that time) easily do in a practice, and multiplied it by the approximate days I thought I would be swimming that year (you know, 3 days a week for 50 weeks or whatever) - and then I added a few yards. Then I looked at how the GTD calculator converted the yards to miles and rounded it further.
You can also do reverse math, like I know that x #yards + x #miles. If I swim 3 days a week, how far do I have to go for each workout? Ewww, that's too much, lets see what happens if I do four days a week? Etc. You can change your goal throughout the year, you know. :D
Excellent point. BTW: How do I access the fitness logs to set an achievable goal?? Have not been successful finding any link to get there.
jg
I'm not sure they have anything like that, but this is what I did: I took what I could (at that time) easily do in a practice, and multiplied it by the approximate days I thought I would be swimming that year (you know, 3 days a week for 50 weeks or whatever) - and then I added a few yards. Then I looked at how the GTD calculator converted the yards to miles and rounded it further.
You can also do reverse math, like I know that x #yards + x #miles. If I swim 3 days a week, how far do I have to go for each workout? Ewww, that's too much, lets see what happens if I do four days a week? Etc. You can change your goal throughout the year, you know. :D
