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
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Today I moved 3 seconds closer to my goal of swimming a 1:10 100 free. I did a 1:16.7 which is 3.2 seconds faster than my previous PB. The weird thing is that I was dead tired at the time and felt slow. It's been awhile since I did an all-out timed 100. It's good to see that all my technique work and fast fin swimming is working!
I'm also progressing with my breaststroke goal, though I didn't time myself for any benchmarks yet. I think my pull is coming along. I see that in Oct. I listed swimming the 100 BR in a meet as a goal. That's going to hurt. At least I didn't say the 200. I plan to start by doing the 50BR at the ORCA meet in Seattle next month.
So how are everyone else's goals progressing?
Today I moved 3 seconds closer to my goal of swimming a 1:10 100 free. I did a 1:16.7 which is 3.2 seconds faster than my previous PB. The weird thing is that I was dead tired at the time and felt slow. It's been awhile since I did an all-out timed 100. It's good to see that all my technique work and fast fin swimming is working!
I'm also progressing with my breaststroke goal, though I didn't time myself for any benchmarks yet. I think my pull is coming along. I see that in Oct. I listed swimming the 100 BR in a meet as a goal. That's going to hurt. At least I didn't say the 200. I plan to start by doing the 50BR at the ORCA meet in Seattle next month.
So how are everyone else's goals progressing?
