Have any of you made huge improvments in your swimming within the past couple of years, or since beginning swimming? If so, what were the improvments you made? What were you doing in training in order to make these improvments?
Have any of you made large improvments recently?
I've made lots of improvments both with technic, speed and indurance over the last 18 months after returning to the pool.
in '96 (21 yrs old) when I stopped swimming I had times like
1:02 100 SCY ***
2:05 200 SCY IM
4:21 400 SCY IM
:52 100 SCY free/fly
5:09 500 SCY free
1:06 100 SCY back
when I first came back to the pool in 2006 my times looked like
1:22 100 SCM ***
2:47 200 SCM IM
1:09 100 SCM free
1:21 100 SCM back
couldn't swim 100m fly
in 2007 I swam a 3km open water race in 45:15. and my pool times dropped to
1:16 100 SCM ***
2:33 200 SCM IM
1:03 100 SCM free (relay)
1:15 100 SCM back
1:15 100 SCM fly
5:02 400 SCM free
and in 2008 (34 yrs old) I swam the same 3km OW race in 38:02 and my pool times have dropped to
1:14 100 SCM ***
2:26 200 SCM IM
1:00 100 SCM free (relay)
1:10 100 SCM back
1:08 100 SCM fly
4:41 400 SCM free
5:19 400 SCM IM
So only my worst stroke, Back, is better than when I was active. (Very hard to beleive) I still have some room to improve with everything else. Hoping to get to 1:12 100m ***, 2:20 200m IM, and 5:05 400m IM before Aug 2010.
Currently I only have time to work out 3 times a week. My goal is to get a 4th time in 2009 and eventually a 5th time in 2010 between Jan-Aug. and then maybe go back to only 3 times a week after Masters Worlds. And I am hoping that my team will give the Masters group a coach. we had one all of last year and this spring, but something happened this fall and we no longer have someone on deck. and that is what I need most right now.
I've made lots of improvments both with technic, speed and indurance over the last 18 months after returning to the pool.
in '96 (21 yrs old) when I stopped swimming I had times like
1:02 100 SCY ***
2:05 200 SCY IM
4:21 400 SCY IM
:52 100 SCY free/fly
5:09 500 SCY free
1:06 100 SCY back
when I first came back to the pool in 2006 my times looked like
1:22 100 SCM ***
2:47 200 SCM IM
1:09 100 SCM free
1:21 100 SCM back
couldn't swim 100m fly
in 2007 I swam a 3km open water race in 45:15. and my pool times dropped to
1:16 100 SCM ***
2:33 200 SCM IM
1:03 100 SCM free (relay)
1:15 100 SCM back
1:15 100 SCM fly
5:02 400 SCM free
and in 2008 (34 yrs old) I swam the same 3km OW race in 38:02 and my pool times have dropped to
1:14 100 SCM ***
2:26 200 SCM IM
1:00 100 SCM free (relay)
1:10 100 SCM back
1:08 100 SCM fly
4:41 400 SCM free
5:19 400 SCM IM
So only my worst stroke, Back, is better than when I was active. (Very hard to beleive) I still have some room to improve with everything else. Hoping to get to 1:12 100m ***, 2:20 200m IM, and 5:05 400m IM before Aug 2010.
Currently I only have time to work out 3 times a week. My goal is to get a 4th time in 2009 and eventually a 5th time in 2010 between Jan-Aug. and then maybe go back to only 3 times a week after Masters Worlds. And I am hoping that my team will give the Masters group a coach. we had one all of last year and this spring, but something happened this fall and we no longer have someone on deck. and that is what I need most right now.
