For the first time in my life, I don't live close to an indoor pool. Yikes! Yeah, I know, it's Iowa, you say, duh!
Our outdoor pool will be closing soon, so I will have to begin the trek to the next town over (Perry, IA) to their pool.
However, I did find a Masters program in Des Moines, but that is about an hour away. With gas prices, my hippie, tree hugging ways, and Iowa winters, I'm not sure this is the best idea.
I have been a very competitive swimmer my entire life. I've been racing in Tris for the past five years, but I've decided that it's time to concentrate more on my swimming.
I'm great at training solo for tris, but not for all around swimming. I'm used to having my workouts given to me. Plus, other swimmers in the pool motivate me to work harder, get faster.
Here are a couple of my brainstorms:
Find a coach online to feed me workouts and give feedback.
Build my own indoor pool (awesome idea, but that won't be happening this winter! lol!)
Join the Masters team an hour away, but only practice once a week with them and practice on my own the rest of the week.
Does anyone have any other ideas???
--Reagan
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Reagan,
Swim with the masters team an hour a way once a week. I train on my own or sometimes with an USA-S team but the masters team I swim for is about 45 minutes away also. I try to get there once a week. It is nice to have others to swim with and a nice break away from the kids.
Reagan,
Swim with the masters team an hour a way once a week. I train on my own or sometimes with an USA-S team but the masters team I swim for is about 45 minutes away also. I try to get there once a week. It is nice to have others to swim with and a nice break away from the kids.
