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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I always count lengths. So it is odd numbers going up and even numbers coming back. If I get mixed up alittle I usually drop back 1 length and keep counting. If that makes sense.
When swimming 100's I count 1, 2, 3, 4 then 11, 12, 13, 14 etc till I get to 94 then I am done with 10 100's. Works for me!
Some how on longer swims and especially when I am by myself the counting just happens in the background so to speak and I can then think about more interesting things.
I always count lengths. So it is odd numbers going up and even numbers coming back. If I get mixed up alittle I usually drop back 1 length and keep counting. If that makes sense.
When swimming 100's I count 1, 2, 3, 4 then 11, 12, 13, 14 etc till I get to 94 then I am done with 10 100's. Works for me!
Some how on longer swims and especially when I am by myself the counting just happens in the background so to speak and I can then think about more interesting things.
