It is soo hard for me to concentrate during lap swim at my pool. Anyone else have this issue? Today i did my regular saturday morning swim. As I am traveling to the pool, I decide I am going to count how many laps I did today. I start counting as I go and then find myself trying to count my breaths for each length, or figure out a new drill to try, or why the heck is this person in front of me as slow as molasses in my lane? THEN, I rest when i hit the wall, and check out the other lanes..I get all competitive with strangers in the other lanes and it just ends embarassingly for myself. haha. On the way home, im mad that i didnt keep track of my laps n stuff. I dont time myslef as of yet because of my unorganized workouts thus far. I am going to join a masters team very very soon, hopefully that will remedy some of my issue. :shakeshead:
Things I do at various points in the workout to help keep track of where I am when swimming alone:
open turn & peek at the clock every 100 or 200 for longer swims (500 and up) - this helps me pace myself as well
alternate 100 free, 100 non-free (especially when warming up to warm up different muscle groups)
break it down into smaller chunks - never just swim laps - it's always 4x500 or 3x300 swim/kick/pull or something similar
swim sets on intervals that aren't multiples of 30 seconds (50s on :55 or 1:05 instead of 1:00, for example) - you can tell where you are in the set by where the second hand is
if I'm doing some high count of something like 20x50 or 15x100 I have even been known to use kickboards and zoomers on the deck to count the reps in binary
HTH
Skip Montanaro
Things I do at various points in the workout to help keep track of where I am when swimming alone:
open turn & peek at the clock every 100 or 200 for longer swims (500 and up) - this helps me pace myself as well
alternate 100 free, 100 non-free (especially when warming up to warm up different muscle groups)
break it down into smaller chunks - never just swim laps - it's always 4x500 or 3x300 swim/kick/pull or something similar
swim sets on intervals that aren't multiples of 30 seconds (50s on :55 or 1:05 instead of 1:00, for example) - you can tell where you are in the set by where the second hand is
if I'm doing some high count of something like 20x50 or 15x100 I have even been known to use kickboards and zoomers on the deck to count the reps in binary
HTH
Skip Montanaro
