Does anyone else think the go the distance program is seriously stupid. The prizes stink, it's too hard to get them if you even get the prize you deserved. I don't even think most people are even telling the truth about how much they swim to cheat.
I think there should be a "Frequent Flyer Mileage" activity. Ok, so maybe the name is a little corny but I would love a good fly challenge. Of course, the FLOG would have to be modified to accommodate sub-categories of swimming.
I love this idea.... it's one thing to log total yardage, but when I look back at a month's worth of swims and see 25 2-4,000-yard days I would love to know at a glance how much of that was fly, back, etc. So, one 3000 yard workout might be mostly free, but another racks up 800 in backstroke; another 3000-yarder might include 600 in fly. How many miles of fly do I swim in a month? How many miles of back? Can't really tell that easily now. I swam almost 40 miles total in June, but I bet 12-18 of it was backstroke, because I was training hard for those events.
This would also make correlating training patterns and injuries a lot easier... what percentage of my yardage does the fly have to be at before my shoulders start really annoying me? Where is the breaking point? These are all questions I try to go back over my training logs to answer from time to time... but I'd love to look at the flog and see the running totals in one spot.
I think there should be a "Frequent Flyer Mileage" activity. Ok, so maybe the name is a little corny but I would love a good fly challenge. Of course, the FLOG would have to be modified to accommodate sub-categories of swimming.
I love this idea.... it's one thing to log total yardage, but when I look back at a month's worth of swims and see 25 2-4,000-yard days I would love to know at a glance how much of that was fly, back, etc. So, one 3000 yard workout might be mostly free, but another racks up 800 in backstroke; another 3000-yarder might include 600 in fly. How many miles of fly do I swim in a month? How many miles of back? Can't really tell that easily now. I swam almost 40 miles total in June, but I bet 12-18 of it was backstroke, because I was training hard for those events.
This would also make correlating training patterns and injuries a lot easier... what percentage of my yardage does the fly have to be at before my shoulders start really annoying me? Where is the breaking point? These are all questions I try to go back over my training logs to answer from time to time... but I'd love to look at the flog and see the running totals in one spot.
