Feel free to post both your short-term and long-term goals here relating to your swimming either as achievements with or without competition.
Here is my short-term goal while I am visiting in Texas:
To swim from the Joe Pool Lake Beach to the dam and back. Distance: 9.68 miles. I want to do this before October 6th.
The interesting thing is because I am in Texas, I have not been swimming the mileage I was doing when in Roatan. I have sort of been in a state of tapering throughout the week with a long swim on Sundays. AND, I am swimming further on those Sundays. Instead of swimming 6 miles, 4xweek, I am doing 4 miles three times a week with a long swim on Sundays; quite a reduction. The thought of over-training comes to mind as I ponder all this.
Next goal: 13 mile swim by end of November.
What are your goals?
Donna
Parents
Former Member
Goals you have set sound good to me. When I raced the marathon circuit I never did too much open water swimming. Most of my preseason swimming was done in a pool. Lake Ontario was always cold where I lived. Westerly breezes always - the water 50 degrees or lower most of the time. I very seldom went in water below 60 degrees except in a race.
Now my goal is to get in the pool and swim a few yards or meters. The aim is to do 3500m a day 6 days a week. Not yet there. No goals beyond today.
Goals you have set sound good to me. When I raced the marathon circuit I never did too much open water swimming. Most of my preseason swimming was done in a pool. Lake Ontario was always cold where I lived. Westerly breezes always - the water 50 degrees or lower most of the time. I very seldom went in water below 60 degrees except in a race.
Now my goal is to get in the pool and swim a few yards or meters. The aim is to do 3500m a day 6 days a week. Not yet there. No goals beyond today.
