Did you achieve your GTD goal this year? I hope you all are pleased with your 2019 Go the Distance results! I set a goal for 300 miles, and I have just 1,500 yards left to go. I'm on my way to the pool for a 2,500 yard workout, so I'll make it today! :banana: I'm going to celebrate by trying out my new Finis monofin. :D
My 300 miles for the year pale in comparison to two of my Georgia Masters teammates, Pat Eddy and Chris Greene who each swam over 2,000 miles for the year! I will be writing about them in an article for the Georgia Masters Newsletter, and one of the questions I want to ask is: How do you prevent repetitive stress injuries swimming so much mileage?
I kept 2019 injury-free by doing a daily 20-minute pre-swim dynamic stretching warm-up, and a lot of static stretching and yoga following my swim sessions. I also do 3 x week Theraband exercises, sit-ups, and push-ups. (I'm now up to 100 military push-ups per session as sets of 15 and one fast ten push-up set at the end.)
What was your GTD goal for 2019? Did you achieve it? What is your GTD goal for 2020? (Mine is 300 miles again.) Good luck, and HAPPY NEW YEAR! :party2: :wine:
Did your suit come oddly packaged? I recall I received one on two separate occasions in the past and each time came in a huge box on a hanger...nice but so strange.
20 more than my goal...620.49
I always wondered about those over 2000 miles...do they just like to go long or does it help them swim faster...I'm assuming they are retired and have bionic shoulders??!!
Happy 2020 everybody!
Happy New Year Kurt!
Yea, it was kind of an odd package. It was a very large box, sent from Jantzen I think, with the much smaller Nike box, and the suit inside that. Shipping must have been ridiculous, especially considering that a brief can almost fit in a normal envelope (well maybe a larger one).
Maybe I'll talk to someone I know on the awards/recognition committee. Q Swimwear has all kinds of suit designs, and they'll do a custom one. I'd pay $20 for a suit that had something special about it (like said USMS GTD 2020). Q seems to have 50% off sales pretty regularly, and the briefs go for $20 during that (yea I know women's suits are more). But maybe we can get something going again.
And I don't get people who swim even 1000 miles. That works out to 3 miles every day, with no days off (so no vacation, no sick days, and having a place to swim on holidays). 2000 miles would be 6 miles a day.
My schedule is to swim about 5000 yards on Mon, Wed, and Fri. Tues/Thurs are gym days, but I finish up with 1000-1500 in the gym pool. Then when I'm building, I'll do a long swim on Sundays (maybe 4-6 miles) at Barton Springs.
I hear you on the shoulders...I never had problems before I built up for Saguaro in 2019. Thankfully the cool water at Barton Springs helps quite a bit.
Did your suit come oddly packaged? I recall I received one on two separate occasions in the past and each time came in a huge box on a hanger...nice but so strange.
20 more than my goal...620.49
I always wondered about those over 2000 miles...do they just like to go long or does it help them swim faster...I'm assuming they are retired and have bionic shoulders??!!
Happy 2020 everybody!
Happy New Year Kurt!
Yea, it was kind of an odd package. It was a very large box, sent from Jantzen I think, with the much smaller Nike box, and the suit inside that. Shipping must have been ridiculous, especially considering that a brief can almost fit in a normal envelope (well maybe a larger one).
Maybe I'll talk to someone I know on the awards/recognition committee. Q Swimwear has all kinds of suit designs, and they'll do a custom one. I'd pay $20 for a suit that had something special about it (like said USMS GTD 2020). Q seems to have 50% off sales pretty regularly, and the briefs go for $20 during that (yea I know women's suits are more). But maybe we can get something going again.
And I don't get people who swim even 1000 miles. That works out to 3 miles every day, with no days off (so no vacation, no sick days, and having a place to swim on holidays). 2000 miles would be 6 miles a day.
My schedule is to swim about 5000 yards on Mon, Wed, and Fri. Tues/Thurs are gym days, but I finish up with 1000-1500 in the gym pool. Then when I'm building, I'll do a long swim on Sundays (maybe 4-6 miles) at Barton Springs.
I hear you on the shoulders...I never had problems before I built up for Saguaro in 2019. Thankfully the cool water at Barton Springs helps quite a bit.
