New Years Resolutions?

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 14:14:39 GMT

iris, I really feel your pain...I was out of running for about a year and a half due to a hurt knee. It was heartbreaking and I felt as though my identity was gone. Everyone always asks me "Are you still running like a crazy lady?" Then I woke up and realized that I needed to get my butt in the pool. It really has been a great substitute/addition. Now I'm up to 45 minutes of running (in which I started with 5 minutes and have been building up...and to think that I was a marathoner!), and have decided to train and race a half ironman tri in August. For runners (or any sport specific athlete) it is emotionally difficult to change gears--limit the weekly mileage, number of days running in a week, adopt another sport, etc. However, you will find that swimming and other sports will diminish your knee pain, help with the emotional blow of limiting running, and give you purpose. *After you rehab for awhile, how about a triathlon??? Cheers, jerrycat

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:28:53 GMT

Jerrycat Thanks for the encouragement. I am looking forward to getting in the pool after surgery ( 12/31). Im hoping that after some rehab & doing the right stretches , etc. That I will be able to run again. Im glad that you are back out on the pavement.. and training for a 1/2 ironman! I have signed up for a sprint tri in Cayman Brac 4/18, Im hoping that I can at least muddle through it,esp since I have had to cancel everthing else until them . Which 1/2 are you planning on doing? I did Gulf Shores in 2000-I do have to say it was the hardest and the best accomplishment so far. It was much harder than any marathon I had ever done. My "insane"friends (haha) went on to the full ironman(s) distance. There wasnt anyway I could find the time to train for a full one ( and keep my family from from kicking me out of the house) . Let me know how the 1/2 goes! Iris

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:28:44 GMT

To swim more " that's why I'm here". I've been swimming semi-serious most of my life so I make my resolution to step it up a notch. Tim

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Former Member — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:45:36 GMT

My 1st post..... One of my resolutions is to swim more and run less.( the reason that I joined this forum) I am ADDICTED to running and have over time ran my knee into the grave. I do swim and bike,but not well. I live a block from the ocean and make myself go out there in the summer and flail around,looking closely to an injured fish or shark bait. Needless to say,changing hobbies is traumatic to a running addict. Another resolution.... "keep life simple" . I keep too many balls in the air, so this year Im not keeping a full calender.. but going to make myself enjoy not having anything planned ..if it kills me (haha). Not running ever marathon in sight helps with this - I stayed in training all year long. So,where do I begin in becoming a swimmer? Have a Happy New year!!! Iris X26pt2

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Former Member — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 07:26:49 GMT

in march 2000 i stopped smoking after losing 56 pounds...sounds great...in the last 3 years i've managed to put most of that weight back on..dratt however a lot of the weight is with increased muscle mass due to swimming regularly,ive managed to stay quit with the smoking..MY RESOLUTION is to re-lose some of that weight,but keep the muscle..

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:35:16 GMT

Kathy, Thanks for sharing your good attitude with us, and thanks for making your first post :) (no need ot be nervous, lot of very nice people in here) Welcome aboard and Good Luck with the 400 IM ... and all the other resolutions :)

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 12:41:04 GMT

Originally posted by k140j p.s. I have been using Mo Chambers' workouts for about 18 months..... how does one go about thanking her for posting them all the time for self-coached swimmers like me? I like her workouts too.

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 08:56:33 GMT

Hey, Laura - ok, you're right. You may have noticed that last year's resolutions were things I really wanted to do anyway - it was incredible reconnecting with folks (two I hadn't seen or spoken to in over 10 years!). "Resolving" to do it merely provided the impetus to go out and do it (the road to hell being paved with good intentions and all that). The reality of reading the Bible through is daunting - there are very few passages less stimulating than Leviticus.......... Moreover, if any of you had seen the last 25 fly in my 400 IM, you might have suggested that I didn't accomplish that one either ("butterstruggle" may be my new favorite word:p ). Finishing the book will stay on my list of resolutions until I finish it .... Kathy p.s. I have been using Mo Chambers' workouts for about 18 months..... how does one go about thanking her for posting them all the time for self-coached swimmers like me?

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:20:11 GMT

You said "Finish reading my "daily readings" Bible (FAILED. Got about 40% through in 2002 and only did about another 20% this year. drat.)" Kathy, just another way to look at "failed:" Edison failed 98 times (or so) before he made a light bulb that worked. Someone asked him if that was disappointing, and he replied to effect of "No; making the light bulb just took 99 steps." Give yourself a big pat on the back for meeting so many of your goals! Happy swimmming, Laura

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Former Member — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:54:37 GMT

I like Nancy's and Connie's reasoning. I make long term goals and then break them down into smaller goals that are on the way to the long term goal. One of my long term goals: Improve my swimming technique. One of the short term goals: Keep a swimming journal Happy New Year Everyone Laineybut

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:31:30 GMT

First (nervous) post......... I have adopted New Year's Resolutions for the last four years and have found that one of the keys to success is to *share* them with others. I have some sadistic friends who check in periodically to see how I'm doing. For 2003, I resolved the following (results in parentheses): Connect with at least five people I hadn't seen or spoken to in AT LEAST one year (accomplished (though one was only a LONG telephone conversation; the other four were for lunch)). 400 IM (It was ugly, but I did it in March (not in a meet - just during a training set). Was planning on doing it one more time, but I messed up my knee shoveling snow about 4 weeks ago, so I'm not doing breaststroke for a while.) Swim AT LEAST 4 days/week (accomplished.) Finish reading my "daily readings" Bible (FAILED. Got about 40% through in 2002 and only did about another 20% this year. drat.) Make every single athletic competition of my children (or, if I can't be there, my husband would be) (YAY!!!!!!!!!!! Accomplished. Which is amazing because my son (15) and my daughter (17) each play 3 sports, plus club sports (no swimmers, but my daughter is a water polo player).) Go out to dinner with my husband on our anniversary (accomplished. (Isn't it PATHETIC that one has to resolve to go out on a date with one's husband?)) Take a killer family vacation (accomplished. We went on a Disney cruise to the Eastern Caribbean. Everyone should do it - it's NICE. No vulgar/innuendo/garbage. Just Mickey, etc.) I've been planning 2004's - you will be the first people to know of my ideas: Another 400 IM (in training - no competition) Ten random acts of kindness (this one could be hard) Two dates with my husband this year - Travel at least two times - away/overnight - with just women. One trip with college roommates (I graduated in 1978, so we go way back) and one trip with two local moms of my daughter's best friends since all three of our girls will be going off to college in August. I like the idea of resolutions, particularly when they are written down and shared. And, I should point out, I don't beat myself up if I don't make it - for me, as long as the sun came up this morning, the glass is half full....... Kathy Johnston

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Former Member — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 14:55:30 GMT

Like Connie, I don't really make resolutions for the New Year. Basically I make resolutions all year -- I call them goals. Like -- increase exercise amount, decrease swim or run itmes, lose some fat, be nicer, etc.. It is too defeating to make a list on one day of good things to do for the year! If I make one at a time throughout the year I am *sometimes* more successful at meeting the goal(s). Here's to some great goals yet to come! Nancy

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Former Member — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:11:42 GMT

My resolution for 2004 is to live through it....

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Former Member — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:42:38 GMT

My resolution for 2003 was to lose some weight - but no specific goal in mind. I did manage to lose 30 lbs. Swimming is how I did it. I was not a swimmer before that for about 6 years. But now I am hooked. For 2004, I want to increase my swimming to 500,000 + SCY (I did just over 300,000 SCY in 2003 which I am proud of considering I couldn't do 150 continuous at the beginning of the year.). I also want to lose some additional weight, but figure that if I get the swimming in, the weight will take care of itself. Oh yeah, I want to become rich too.

RE: New Years Resolutions?

Former Member — Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:53:12 GMT

My only resolution would be to keep the 35 pounds that I lost from October to May last year off. So far I have for 7 months.