Hi!
I joined the USMS FLOG (love the acronym...) at the end of January. I am excited about the prizes for various milestones! However, I noticed some people are already at 100 or 200 miles for the year. Holy moly! I thought I swam a lot! Are any of these people reading? Why such high yardage? How do you structure your week? Singles, doubles?
Intrigued.
Allison
I was at 243 when I had a really big hip operation. That ended my swimming for the year!!!! I can't walk with any weight on my right leg/hip toll Jan. 10th or so !!!
You're off for the season and still ahead of me (237).
Hit 500 miles earlier this month (10-08-13). Hit the 500 miles three weeks earlier than last year.
Received my new swimsuit compliments of Nike and USMS yesterday. Thank you very much!
Jan 55.74 miles (=98,097 yards, =89,700 meters)
Feb 46.53 miles (=81,892 yards, =74,882 meters)
Mar 49.80 miles (=87,642 yards, =80,140 meters)
Apr 57.23 miles (=100,722 yards, =92,100 meters)
May 59.56 miles (=104,829 yards, =95,856 meters)
Jun 55.61 miles (=97,878 yards, =89,500 meters)
Jul 59.01 miles (=103,849 yards, =94,960 meters)
Aug 52.13 miles (=91,754 yards, =83,900 meters)
Sep 52.51 miles (=92,410 yards, =84,500 meters)
Oct 40.76 miles (=71,741 yards, =65,600 meters)
Total 528.87 miles (=930,815 yards, =851,138 meters)
Hit 500 miles earlier this month (10-08-13). Hit the 500 miles three weeks earlier than last year.
Received my new swimsuit compliments of Nike and USMS yesterday. Thank you very much!
Jan 55.74 miles (=98,097 yards, =89,700 meters)
Feb 46.53 miles (=81,892 yards, =74,882 meters)
Mar 49.80 miles (=87,642 yards, =80,140 meters)
Apr 57.23 miles (=100,722 yards, =92,100 meters)
May 59.56 miles (=104,829 yards, =95,856 meters)
Jun 55.61 miles (=97,878 yards, =89,500 meters)
Jul 59.01 miles (=103,849 yards, =94,960 meters)
Aug 52.13 miles (=91,754 yards, =83,900 meters)
Sep 52.51 miles (=92,410 yards, =84,500 meters)
Oct 40.76 miles (=71,741 yards, =65,600 meters)
Total 528.87 miles (=930,815 yards, =851,138 meters)
Hey Bill, very impressive printout. You inspired me to make same printout of my mileage as you did - it's very visual though not as impressive as yours.
Jan 42.999 miles (=75,678 yards, =69,200 meters)
Feb 45.733 miles (=80,490 yards, =73,600 meters)
Mar 44.77 miles (=78,795 yards, =72,050 meters)
Apr 40.016 miles (=70,429 yards, =64,400 meters)
May 58.409 miles (=102,800 yards, =94,000 meters)
Jun 40.638 miles (=71,522 yards, =65,400 meters)
Jul 56.483 miles (=99,409 yards, =90,900 meters)
Aug 46.851 miles (=82,458 yards, =75,400 meters)
Sep 13.546 miles (=23,841 yards, =21,800 meters)
Oct 53.686 miles (=94,488 yards, =86,400 meters)
Nov 3.79 miles (=6,671 yards, =6,100 meters)
Total: 446.921 miles (=786,581 yards, =719,250 meters)
Also very impressive is Franks GTD stats. He's way up there with the ultramarathonites, yet at times portions of his workouts are done at a sprinters pace, blasting down LCM sub 30's.
Ya, you need to do a 5 x 200 fly set to even the set out. I've done many sets like that several times except I'm more prone to do 5 x (200 free/***/back/fly/IM/IM kick/free pull) so that I get variety on each 200 but still total 7000 yd/m.
I just passed 400 miles a couple days ago. My original goal of 550 miles just isn't going to happen. 500 is my new goal and it should be attainable with a full court press for the remaining few weeks of the year!
Not going to reach my original goal either. Unfortunately I figured this out mid-summer. Why is it 500 seems so easy year after year, but 622 continues to elude me? Oh yeah. Chronic injuries and life outside of swimming. Oh well :)
Not going to reach my original goal either. Unfortunately I figured this out mid-summer. Why is it 500 seems so easy year after year, but 622 continues to elude me? Oh yeah. Chronic injuries and life outside of swimming. Oh well :)
Same with me. Last year, I beat my goal and hit 454 miles for the year, so I set 475 as my goal for this year. Injuries were a wake up call for me to lighten up on the yardage, however, so I backed my goal off to 425. I am currently at 377 miles and have no plans to revise my goal back up. If anything, an extra day off here and there is in order.
After Nationals, I went to visit the surgeon who operated on me ten years ago and received a stern lecture after the hugs and fun talk. If he has his way, my days of mega yardage and 2,000 yards of continuous butterfly are over if I plan to swim into old age.
I just passed 400 miles a couple days ago. My original goal of 550 miles just isn't going to happen. 500 is my new goal and it should be attainable with a full court press for the remaining few weeks of the year!
I originally had something higher as well, but with dropping from the USAS swimming, I'm gonna barely make it to 500...I hope. This next month may be pretty scarce for me in the pool. It's a good thing I had a reserve built up to try to get my Nike suit. I'm still 30 or so miles away...which sounds easy, but it may not be either.
