As I entered my yardage in my Fitness Log today, I noticed that we are 20% through the year. I also noticed that I’m about 10 miles behind my goal pace. My new mini goal is to get back on pace by the end of March… I want that Nike draw string bag!!!
I’m finding that having a Goal and the annoying reminder “You'll need to pick up the pace to achieve your goal this year:” is actually working to get me to the pool on days that I would in the past have skipped.
How about you?
I started off GTD 2013 right. My gym opened at 7 AM this morning, and I was there just a couple minutes after 7. I saw that the lights in the pool area were turned off, so I asked the girl at the front desk if the pool was closed. She said it wasn't closed but that she had never opened before, did not know how to turn on the lights in that area, and might call her manager to find out. I thanked her (I truly was grateful that I had not just biked to the gym in subfreezing darkness only to find an unannounced closure) and went to the locker room to change. I stepped out into the black pool area and looked for anything that might be a lightswitch. Found it pretty quickly. I hopped into the pool and enjoyed my first 100 in the eerie glow as the lights and I both warmed up. I'm already at 0.31% progress towards my GTD2013 goal! :banana:
I only started with GTD in July. Year end, I am at 195 miles. I want to hit 500 miles next year (my almost 60 year old, never swimming A competition mom trains more than me. Ouch!)
1st new years resolution!
Quick answer…Maybe you track time differently in Sweden, but in the USA there are only 1400 minutes in a day. I’m not sure how you got 214 hours in your day.
Actually, one can squeeze a few more minutes into a day, about 40 more min. to be exact (24x60=1,440 min.), and that's enough for at least 2k in the pool :D. And while thay are little further north in Sweden, they're still rotating around the earth's axis at the same speed.
And my caps odd to you if you can cycle more than 1,000,000 yards in 1 day! By my calculation you are averaging almost 24 MPH nonstop for 24 hours. An outstanding ride.
It has been done. Current 24 hour cycling world record is 1216.81 miles (50.7 MPH). The rider was, however, continuously drafting an 18-wheel truck. The non-drafting standard bike men's WR is 561.57 miles (23.4MPH). ultracycling.com/.../
It appears that the GTD2013 results update in real-time. www.usms.org/.../gtdparticipants.php :applaud:
doesn't work for me. It still shows my mileage as of yesterday although I updated my FLOG this morning after practice.
It appears that the GTD2013 results update in real-time.Did you by chance swim 4200 yds yesterday? If so, you might have accidentally double posted your mileage or there may be a glitch in the system somewhere. Looks like knelson's 6650 yds he blogged got doubled on GTD as well.
Did you by chance swim 4200 yds yesterday? If so, you might have accidentally double posted your mileage or there may be a glitch in the system somewhere. Looks like knelson's 6650 yds he blogged got doubled on GTD as well.
I guess that's it - by chance I posted 4200 both yesterday and today, so the erroneous GTD total through yesterday is indistinguishable from my correct GTD total through today. But on the plus side, I've created plenty of confusion
I guess that's it - by chance I posted 4200 both yesterday and today, so the erroneous GTD total through yesterday is indistinguishable from my correct GTD total through today. But on the plus side, I've created plenty of confusionPeter, please note he “posted 4,200” both days. That Guy was careful not to say he actually swam 4,200 yards.
