Post Your Goals

My goals: 1) Actually go to practice this season. It actually may consist of me joining a USS club team in the area to make me do it. I'll go a few times a week, but it's better than the 0-1 practices a week I usually do with my master's team. 2) Get best times for my master's career. If I stick to #1, #2 is in the bag.:cheerleader:

On goals as a movable feast... I had no notion whatsoever what I could do, other than reasonable confidence that I could stay afloat and reach the distant shore somehow if the canoe tipped over, until I got a coach. I still don't know what I might be capable of someday. Coach has a much better idea. So I continue exploring down this path. :cool: Regards, VB

Ok - here they go: Short Term: Swim a 500 Free by the end of this year WITH a 6 beat kick and breathing every 3rd stroke for the entire distance. This is very hard for me since I am a 2 beat kicker and prefer to breathe on the right side only. I'd like to do it under 6 minutes while maintaining that form....unfortunately I resort to my old habits when I try to go faster. Medium Goal: Make a seasonal training plan (and stick with it) so I can focus on conditioning when I swim. Right now I only swim laps with the goal of as much yardage in a workout as I can do. I do OK workouts but I make it up as I go. Last year's goal was fitness and weight loss. I did alot of Aerobic swimming and lost 13 pounds - (Pull Bouy and Paddles...yes - I was "one of those" - but it works for fat burning since you only get to about 70% of max heart rate). I am also a Go The Distance participant. I was going along pretty good until the summer came along and the kids got out of school. I'd like to get my name back on Page 1 of the results....I've fallen back pretty far. Long Term Goal: Go to Nationals. Just started masters swimming last year and really enjoying it after a 20 year break from competative swimming. 2 of my college teammates and I have decided to go to Austin in 2008......we want to make SCY Nationals an annual event for us as a way to stay in touch and keep swimming! I haven't seen my former college roomie in almost 14 years when she came to visit me after my first daughter was born. So the goal is to make it in 2008 and thereafter. There! Now it's in writing!!!

I will seriously condense my goals and give just the highlights. Long Term: To make top ten in 1500 SCM most likely next year but who knows the way I am going it could become a short term goal. Short Term: break 22 minutes in the 1650 Free, break 29 in the 50 Free and 33 in the 50 Fly. I guess I will need to reset my goals since I broke 29 in the 50 Free already, tied the 33 in the fly. This leaves only one short term goal left and I won't swim that until Nationals. New goals for Nationals break 22 minutes in the 1650 Free, break 1 minute in the 100 Free, break 6 minutes in the 500 Free, 3 minutes in the 200 Fly and 2:40 in the 200 IM.

Short term goals: Break :30 in the 50 SCY free before my 38th birthday. Break :35 in the 50 SCY ***. Break 1:05 in the 100 SCY free. Long term goals: Break 1:00 in the 100 SCY free and learn to swim the fly and back strokes!

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?

A 29.00 100 scy free at 25 is quite another animal from a 29.00 100 lcm free at 70 If you can do 100 free in 29 seconds, at any age, my hat's off to you! :notworthy:

Great thread topic. Makes us all put it into words. Short Term Swim 6 times a week after a layoff of a year and a half. Build yardage up so that I average about 6000 yards a workout. Swim a couple of OWS this summer in the mile to 3K range. Long Term Continue in the good habits I develope. Continue to compete in OWS. Perhaps get back into competitive swimming (I swam in college).

When posting goals, or "Atta-boys/girls"...........Make that "Atta-girls/boys" ladies first" or..............even non-Attas, it would benefit the readership if distances were stated in y or m and whether SC or LC. Moreover, swimmers' ages would shed light on the goals. Dontcha think? A 29.00 100 scy free at 25 is quite another animal from a 29.00 100 lcm free at 70 My goal is to do this year, at least what I have done last year.

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.