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
Ok - here they go:
Short Term: Swim a 500 Free by the end of this year WITH a 6 beat kick and breathing every 3rd stroke for the entire distance. This is very hard for me since I am a 2 beat kicker and prefer to breathe on the right side only. I'd like to do it under 6 minutes while maintaining that form....unfortunately I resort to my old habits when I try to go faster.
Medium Goal: Make a seasonal training plan (and stick with it) so I can focus on conditioning when I swim. Right now I only swim laps with the goal of as much yardage in a workout as I can do. I do OK workouts but I make it up as I go. Last year's goal was fitness and weight loss. I did alot of Aerobic swimming and lost 13 pounds - (Pull Bouy and Paddles...yes - I was "one of those" - but it works for fat burning since you only get to about 70% of max heart rate). I am also a Go The Distance participant. I was going along pretty good until the summer came along and the kids got out of school. I'd like to get my name back on Page 1 of the results....I've fallen back pretty far.
Long Term Goal: Go to Nationals. Just started masters swimming last year and really enjoying it after a 20 year break from competative swimming. 2 of my college teammates and I have decided to go to Austin in 2008......we want to make SCY Nationals an annual event for us as a way to stay in touch and keep swimming! I haven't seen my former college roomie in almost 14 years when she came to visit me after my first daughter was born. So the goal is to make it in 2008 and thereafter.
There! Now it's in writing!!!
Ok - here they go:
Short Term: Swim a 500 Free by the end of this year WITH a 6 beat kick and breathing every 3rd stroke for the entire distance. This is very hard for me since I am a 2 beat kicker and prefer to breathe on the right side only. I'd like to do it under 6 minutes while maintaining that form....unfortunately I resort to my old habits when I try to go faster.
Medium Goal: Make a seasonal training plan (and stick with it) so I can focus on conditioning when I swim. Right now I only swim laps with the goal of as much yardage in a workout as I can do. I do OK workouts but I make it up as I go. Last year's goal was fitness and weight loss. I did alot of Aerobic swimming and lost 13 pounds - (Pull Bouy and Paddles...yes - I was "one of those" - but it works for fat burning since you only get to about 70% of max heart rate). I am also a Go The Distance participant. I was going along pretty good until the summer came along and the kids got out of school. I'd like to get my name back on Page 1 of the results....I've fallen back pretty far.
Long Term Goal: Go to Nationals. Just started masters swimming last year and really enjoying it after a 20 year break from competative swimming. 2 of my college teammates and I have decided to go to Austin in 2008......we want to make SCY Nationals an annual event for us as a way to stay in touch and keep swimming! I haven't seen my former college roomie in almost 14 years when she came to visit me after my first daughter was born. So the goal is to make it in 2008 and thereafter.
There! Now it's in writing!!!
