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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Doing open turns and peeking at the clock works for me. All I need to know is the total duration target, and the target for how much time to knock off of each 50. If I can't meet the 50 yd times then the laps get lost, but at that point I don't care too much because the goal was missed. In that case I just say I swam for X minutes and go home. But it is so simple a method that when it works, I can really work on stroke count and technique.
Doing open turns and peeking at the clock works for me. All I need to know is the total duration target, and the target for how much time to knock off of each 50. If I can't meet the 50 yd times then the laps get lost, but at that point I don't care too much because the goal was missed. In that case I just say I swam for X minutes and go home. But it is so simple a method that when it works, I can really work on stroke count and technique.
