What are your 2008 Swimming New Years Resolutions?
What have you been procrastinating?
Mine are to:
1) lose weight (go from 215 to 205 or better) and
2) do a few more SDK's on hard swims when I'm tired
What are yours?
Share 'em here
We might hold you to 'em.
Tim,
Take a look at the 40-44 age group. Yikes. I feel your pain.
Paul
Yea, its all those college swimmers...they take 10-15 years off, then decide to come back in their late 30s/early 40s. Strange thing is, my coach usually puts them in my lane when they start back...guess I'm more friendly to newcomers, but they usually move to a faster lane in 2-4 weeks.
Actually just did a double workout today (morning + noon), mostly the same set for both, but the 2nd half was a little different at noon. It sure was nice to get outside when it is warmer and sunny (PHX mornings are cold, especially today). Pool was setup LCM for both, which I really like, even if I did 2.5-3k each. Maybe I'll add that to my goal for 2008, do a double at least once a week, and make at least 1-2 workouts a week the sprint set.
ENJOY my USA S meet this Sat with the kids swimming the
400 IM
200 Fly
1000 FR
I'm 3x as old as some of the gals in my heats! :cane:
:rofl:
A girl has a 6 minute seed time for 1000 Free? I think that _might_ be a typo. It's a shame that the meet was so far away, my daughter would love to swim in it as a 9yo.
As for you, you Animal :wine:, way to go. I couldn't live up to your seed times :whiteflag:. Even the 1000 Free would be a struggle :drown:. My hats off to you. Good luck!!!!
Paul
Wow, someone with some similar and achievable goals to me. What age group are you in?
I've been after that sub-1 min 100 SCY free for years, gave up for a while and did more weights and technique, but I'm planning to do a meet this year, maybe I'll finally get it.
What 3 events are you close to NQT's? I'm on the fringe for all ***. Not that I'll go to nationals, but that's a good goal.
I can do a 25 fly, beyond that I switch to drill. I really need to dedicate some time to learning that also....
Been doing masters for almost 10 years. I started in the 25-29 age group, and things were much easier, especially 200 BR. Times are much more competitive in the 35-39 (where I am now) and don't look to be getting easier for 20+ years.
I am in the 18-24 year old age group. I am at 1:01 for the 100 free. There were 2 times that I thought I was going to beat it. The 1st time my goggles popped off halfway through the race and the 2nd time I flipped too early on the last wall and missed it completely. I have a NQT in the 1650 free. I got 2nd last year at Federal Way. I am close in the 50 free, 500 free, 50 back, 200 IM, and 400 IM.
A girl has a 6 minute seed time for 1000 Free? I think that _might_ be a typo. It's a shame that the meet was so far away, my daughter would love to swim in it as a 9yo.
As for you, you Animal :wine:, way to go. I couldn't live up to your seed times :whiteflag:. Even the 1000 Free would be a struggle :drown:. My hats off to you. Good luck!!!!
Paul
Thanks for the kind wishes! At this point, prayer sounds like a good resort as well. I'll let you know how it goes. Worse case, I know that I'll have some funny stories to report. My husband is going to be my counter for the 1000 free. But he doesn't know how many laps it is. . . and he asked if I need a counter for the 400 IM. He has so much to learn. . .
Yea. I know the gal seeded at 6 minutes. She's fast, but it's a typo.
Get my lazy butt back in the water. stay healthy. get back in shape. then perhaps start looking at the clock...
You must be in the -much- younger (fitter and faster) age groups; some of us use "calendars" as pacers.
This may seem like a cop-out, but my sentiment is that if I consistently put in the work and am mindful about my strokes, I will be happy with the result. My biggest resolution is to refine my technique. I need to link the kinetic chain of my back and free much more.
It would be great if I could return to swimming breaststroke so I could do some IM events, but I'm not sure that's going to happen.
