I am putting together a list of Fitness Events and Challenges available to USMS members. These could be virtual, postal, logs, or anything any club has come up with to motivate folks to swim more. If you know of any such event would you please post it on this thread. I promise to post a final list in a compact form if I get some responders. I already know about GTD, Postal 5K/10K, and the Hour Swim series. Thank you, Robin Walker
Exactly... and that is how many of us strategize it, too.
Today is the first day of the Brute Squad Challenge so I tried it out. I should have picked a different day to do this. I was hurting by the 100 mark and by the 150, this was a survival swim. That is no way to swim a 2250, but I completed it. I went 29:39, which I think I should be able to improve on in the years to come.
If I take my best practice times in the brute squad events, add them up, and then add 10 seconds per 100 fly to account for swimming DPS fly instead of regular fly, this is the result: 2:15 + 4:53 + 19:06 + 0:30 = 26:44. So my time was 10.91% slower than the fastest time that I could reasonably expect to go in practice. Plenty of room for improvement...
Any other Brute Squad members out there?
Exactly... and that is how many of us strategize it, too.
Today is the first day of the Brute Squad Challenge so I tried it out. I should have picked a different day to do this. I was hurting by the 100 mark and by the 150, this was a survival swim. That is no way to swim a 2250, but I completed it. I went 29:39, which I think I should be able to improve on in the years to come.
If I take my best practice times in the brute squad events, add them up, and then add 10 seconds per 100 fly to account for swimming DPS fly instead of regular fly, this is the result: 2:15 + 4:53 + 19:06 + 0:30 = 26:44. So my time was 10.91% slower than the fastest time that I could reasonably expect to go in practice. Plenty of room for improvement...
Any other Brute Squad members out there?
