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
My main event twenty-five years ago was the 100 back, and I'd be happy now to go within ten seconds of my PR. On the other hand, I swam the 500 free only occasionally then, and I could definitely PR in that within the next year or two.
In fact, seeing as how the original question was "post your goals":
under 19:30 in the 1650
under 5:40 in the 500
under 2:30 in the 200 back
(all these goals are SCY)
I met my goal in the 1650 with 5.2 seconds to spare, and I won't swim it again this season. 500 goal is still to come. I met my goal for the 200 back too, by 5+ seconds, but I am swimming it again at Nationals.
And I have a new goal, not necessarily for this year's Nationals but maybe for next season or the next: PR in the 100 back. PR means under 1:03.1, and would mean swimming faster in my early 40s than at 15. I foresee a lot of kicking in my future.
My main event twenty-five years ago was the 100 back, and I'd be happy now to go within ten seconds of my PR. On the other hand, I swam the 500 free only occasionally then, and I could definitely PR in that within the next year or two.
In fact, seeing as how the original question was "post your goals":
under 19:30 in the 1650
under 5:40 in the 500
under 2:30 in the 200 back
(all these goals are SCY)
I met my goal in the 1650 with 5.2 seconds to spare, and I won't swim it again this season. 500 goal is still to come. I met my goal for the 200 back too, by 5+ seconds, but I am swimming it again at Nationals.
And I have a new goal, not necessarily for this year's Nationals but maybe for next season or the next: PR in the 100 back. PR means under 1:03.1, and would mean swimming faster in my early 40s than at 15. I foresee a lot of kicking in my future.
