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
Another update.. I've now met my goals of swimming the 50 and 100 BR in a meet. My 50 BR was somewhat disappointing... a 42 something. That's only tenths of a seconds better than my best time in practice, not even enough to account for the dive. Then again it was my first dive at my first meet, so I was happy just to keep my goggles on. My 100 BR time was much better, IMO . I got a 1:30.xx something, which was enough to win my heat, and far closer to my 50 time than anything I have ever done in practice. My best 100 going into the meet was around 1:39. So I'm pretty happy with my 100 BR time.
In the 50 BR I felt like my timing was off and I couldn't work up to full speed. I had no sense of how fast I was going, because I couldn't see any of the people in the other lanes. It was weird. The 100 felt much better, although I just about died during the last 25 of it. I think I will have to start swimming more 100s *** in practice, substituting for free.
Speaking of free, I also did the 50 and 100 free. My times were 30.86 and 1:13 something. I know the exact time of the 50 because I won the heat by touching out the guy next to me by 1/100th of a second. It was fun :D
My 100 free sucked, mainly because I only got one event's rest after the 100 BR. Still good enough for a personal best though, for now. I can definitely do better than 1:13 at my next meet. Considering my 50 time, I should be able to do a lot better, unless I am one of those "drop dead sprinters".
Another update.. I've now met my goals of swimming the 50 and 100 BR in a meet. My 50 BR was somewhat disappointing... a 42 something. That's only tenths of a seconds better than my best time in practice, not even enough to account for the dive. Then again it was my first dive at my first meet, so I was happy just to keep my goggles on. My 100 BR time was much better, IMO . I got a 1:30.xx something, which was enough to win my heat, and far closer to my 50 time than anything I have ever done in practice. My best 100 going into the meet was around 1:39. So I'm pretty happy with my 100 BR time.
In the 50 BR I felt like my timing was off and I couldn't work up to full speed. I had no sense of how fast I was going, because I couldn't see any of the people in the other lanes. It was weird. The 100 felt much better, although I just about died during the last 25 of it. I think I will have to start swimming more 100s *** in practice, substituting for free.
Speaking of free, I also did the 50 and 100 free. My times were 30.86 and 1:13 something. I know the exact time of the 50 because I won the heat by touching out the guy next to me by 1/100th of a second. It was fun :D
My 100 free sucked, mainly because I only got one event's rest after the 100 BR. Still good enough for a personal best though, for now. I can definitely do better than 1:13 at my next meet. Considering my 50 time, I should be able to do a lot better, unless I am one of those "drop dead sprinters".
