I swim lots and lots of long distance and often find myself drifting off in thought while staring at the little tiles on the bottom of the pool. Doing sets of 200s or 300s tends not to be a problem...it's the 500 and 1000 yds that I loose concentration. When I start concentrating on technique is when I'm most likely to forget what lap I was on! Is there a gizmo out there to help me out? I envision something I can hang on the wall that would advance with my flipturn. Does anyone have any tricks to help them out with the counting of laps? Thanks!
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If you are fairly confident of your pacing, you could use a countdown timer on your watch. Just set it to go off on your projected last length or even at each 200, 100, etc. That way you might get two advantages...you don't keep swimming long after you were supposed to be finished, and second, you might be able to play some challenging "games" with your pacing (i.e. pick it up!) .
If you are fairly confident of your pacing, you could use a countdown timer on your watch. Just set it to go off on your projected last length or even at each 200, 100, etc. That way you might get two advantages...you don't keep swimming long after you were supposed to be finished, and second, you might be able to play some challenging "games" with your pacing (i.e. pick it up!) .
