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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Former Member
I'm revising my goals. At some earlier point here I sputtered something about getting my 500 free back to a 5:23 (back to when Reagan was in the White House, that is) as a short term goal. I think 5:45 by mid-April is more realistic.
At my most recent meet, my best time drop was in the 50 back of all events, I dropped something like 1.5 seconds (mostly from an improved start, thanks to one of our coaches), compared to 0.35 seconds in the 1500. I've neglected backstroke for so long that there is a lot of room for improvement.
I'm revising my goals. At some earlier point here I sputtered something about getting my 500 free back to a 5:23 (back to when Reagan was in the White House, that is) as a short term goal. I think 5:45 by mid-April is more realistic.
At my most recent meet, my best time drop was in the 50 back of all events, I dropped something like 1.5 seconds (mostly from an improved start, thanks to one of our coaches), compared to 0.35 seconds in the 1500. I've neglected backstroke for so long that there is a lot of room for improvement.
