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
Former Member
I like to set slightly over-ambitious goals for myself, and I'm usually happy if I improve, even if I don't come close to my 'goals.' My main goal this fall is to improve my 100 free time from 1:10 just over a year ago to (hopefully) 1:05 and my 100 IM from 1:17 to at least 1:14.
In practice:
Improve all-out 100 free time - did a 1:15 yesterday from a push :banana:
Improve all-out 100 IM time - been 1:25-1:28 lately from a push
Improve 25 sprint times
Decrease interval for 2-4 x 50 free - currently can do 4x50 on :45
Time trials in October:
Get PB's in 100 free and 100 IM
Meet in November:
Reach my goal times (above)
Rest of the year:
My pool will be closed from January to August, so mainly just to stay in shape and learn to like (or at least tolerate) the gym.
Super Short Term:
I would like to make it ON TIME to my first practice in over a month, tomorrow evening at UMD.
Shorter Term:
Lose the weight I've put on in the last 5 weeks of relative inactivity and injury.
Medium Term:
Get back to full training mode
Long Term:
sub 5:00 500 in Austin
be competitive in an olympic tri in '08
Very Long Term:
get married, raise mini muppets, and die young as late as possible
Short term - To get back in shape after being out for a few months. This is my eighth week back in the water and I feel really good. Peachtree City Pentathlon this weekend......just doing the Sprint to see where I am. It's a 50 of each stroke and a 100 IM.....thought about doing the middle distance (100 of each stroke and a 200 IM) maybe next year.
Long Term - Make it back to Nationals next year SCY and LCM if money will allow and be competitive in a few events. Training this time is going very well I think....instead of just getting in and swimming a workout.....I am actually pushing myself this time....kind of hard sometimes when swimming alone, but getting back into coaching is helping with the motivation....gotta stay faster than the kids!!!!!:thhbbb:
Hmmmmmmm this post has gotten me thinking.
I just got back into the pool after 22 years give or take a year. So my initial goal is to swim 4 times a week, do some cardio on the off day and just improve my over all cardio. I need to lose some weight and tone up so I hope that this all helps. Come Christmas I will re-evaluate how things are going. I am interested in doing a Masters competition sometime in January.
That is it for now. They may seem small to some but I am 41, had thyroid cancer , 2 surgeries and treatment. So I am THRILLED with myself. I have a competitive nature so I know my goals will change as I get into shape and continue to swim.
I hope to make this a lifelong committment.
Katie
Goals you have set sound good to me. When I raced the marathon circuit I never did too much open water swimming. Most of my preseason swimming was done in a pool. Lake Ontario was always cold where I lived. Westerly breezes always - the water 50 degrees or lower most of the time. I very seldom went in water below 60 degrees except in a race.
Now my goal is to get in the pool and swim a few yards or meters. The aim is to do 3500m a day 6 days a week. Not yet there. No goals beyond today.
short term: to go from "slow and steady" to "not quite as slow and steady"
mid-range: to double my distance from this season and do a 3 miler
long-term: to get across that :censor: 4.4 miles of the Chesapeake Bay!!!
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I'm pretty much with scwids (squids?) here, although my no. 3 would be doing the 8-mile Lake Champlain swim-across. Maybe there are some islands I could stop at and, uh, fix my hair.
VB
My immediate goal is to survive and enjoy Rob's Peachtree Pentathlon this weekend.
Shorter term: To consistently make practices 5-6 days a week this SCM season. I want go through a complete season of training that includes all phases: endurance, quality, peaking, and taper. Peak at St.Nicks.
Long-term, I want to swim well at SCY nats in Austin, of course;-)
Coming back after all these years is sooooo much fun. I only wish I knew then what I know now:p
Mark
