Hi Everyone,
SWIMMER is planning a promotional piece on the One Hour Swim, and we want to know what you think about during the One Hour Swim.
Are you totally focused on your stroke?
Do you try to keep count?
Does your mind wander?
Do you sing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"?
So, what do you think about whan you do the One Hour Swim?
Please reply directly to: Editor@usms.org
Thank you,
Bill Volckening, Editor
SWIMMER magazine
Parents
Former Member
First of all, i couldn;t make it through wothout someone counting, not necessarily dropping the lap counter every lap, but just keeping track of it. Maybe dropping the counter in every 10 or so laps.
I start off with hopping in and loosening up first few laps, then building up during the warmup, till I settle into a pace that I feel like I could hold forever.
Then I take account of all the body parts, make sure they're still functioning and in the right places. See if anything is getting too sore or too tight, whether I need to change up the stroke a little bit to not cramp up.
I try to break it up into sets of 500's where I build 1-4, take a 100 moderate breather, then go at it again.
Every 2-3 laps I spend most of the lap trying to figure out whether I miscounted or not.
35 minutes into it I start losiong track which side of the pool I'm at.
40 minutes into it I start contemplating whether to stop and loosen up my goggles or just tough out the headache, and hope I don;t have to go to the bathroom before it's all over.
...50 minutes into it I'm wondering if they'll tell me to stop when the hour is up, or if my pals will just let me swim up and down for a while longer and laugh. ;)
Then when it's all said and done, half the times I forget to actually mail in my form.
First of all, i couldn;t make it through wothout someone counting, not necessarily dropping the lap counter every lap, but just keeping track of it. Maybe dropping the counter in every 10 or so laps.
I start off with hopping in and loosening up first few laps, then building up during the warmup, till I settle into a pace that I feel like I could hold forever.
Then I take account of all the body parts, make sure they're still functioning and in the right places. See if anything is getting too sore or too tight, whether I need to change up the stroke a little bit to not cramp up.
I try to break it up into sets of 500's where I build 1-4, take a 100 moderate breather, then go at it again.
Every 2-3 laps I spend most of the lap trying to figure out whether I miscounted or not.
35 minutes into it I start losiong track which side of the pool I'm at.
40 minutes into it I start contemplating whether to stop and loosen up my goggles or just tough out the headache, and hope I don;t have to go to the bathroom before it's all over.
...50 minutes into it I'm wondering if they'll tell me to stop when the hour is up, or if my pals will just let me swim up and down for a while longer and laugh. ;)
Then when it's all said and done, half the times I forget to actually mail in my form.
