Hello,
Just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I'm a 29 year old male swimmer in San Antonio, Texas. I ws born and raised in the UK (the king of 20 people in a lane public swimming pools) and only recently moved here. My swimming history has always been as a "fitness swimmer" I guess ever since I was very young. These days, however, I have found myself swimming every day and doing longer and tougher sets. I have just recently acquired through 3-4 weeks of pain and trial and error the flip turn, which I am pretty proud of.
My times are rubbish really. Currently, in a 25 yard pool, my best 100 is usually around 1.30 in the middle or end of an 8 x 100 set on 2 minutes. I have not done a flat out, lung buster 100 yet but I think I can get it under 1.30. My best 50 is around .35 flat out. In the middle of 8 x 50 set, I will consistently swim 0.40. Although I don't think these are great, over the last 6-9 months I have shaved almost 30 seconds off of my 100 time and at least 10 seconds off of the 50 time and have also taken almost 10 strokes off a length. I am hoping that as I improve my turns, my times will drop further. I am beginning to work on the other strokes now.
I guess my major weakness is developing a varied training program since I train alone. I am interested in joining a swim team of some kind eventually. If anyone knows of a suitable team in San Antonio, Texas, please let me know.
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Hi Luke,
I also live in San Antonio and swim with this team at 5:00 am at the 1604 locastion. This team also has locations on the northeast and by 410 and Ingram Mall.
www.nisd.net/.../masters.php
Here is another team and location. PM me if you would like more information.
www.mastersofsouthtexas.org/
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Yeh I have actually looked at this before and e-mailed the contact on the website but got nothing back so just forgot about it. To be honest, I am a little nervous about joing a team having not done it before but I really like the idea of it. I could give you a long list of excuses why I can't join but the reality is I am being a wimp! I also do not know many people in San Antonio yet so it would give the opportunity to make some friends. Do you think I would be out of my depth at your club? What is the skill level there? As long as there is people of similar ability to me to share a lane with then I would be willing to give it a try.
Mookie, thanks for the link and hello to you. That could be helpful for my lonely training periods!
Hi Luke,
I also live in San Antonio and swim with this team at 5:00 am at the 1604 locastion. This team also has locations on the northeast and by 410 and Ingram Mall.
www.nisd.net/.../masters.php
Here is another team and location. PM me if you would like more information.
www.mastersofsouthtexas.org/
:fish2:
Yeh I have actually looked at this before and e-mailed the contact on the website but got nothing back so just forgot about it. To be honest, I am a little nervous about joing a team having not done it before but I really like the idea of it. I could give you a long list of excuses why I can't join but the reality is I am being a wimp! I also do not know many people in San Antonio yet so it would give the opportunity to make some friends. Do you think I would be out of my depth at your club? What is the skill level there? As long as there is people of similar ability to me to share a lane with then I would be willing to give it a try.
Mookie, thanks for the link and hello to you. That could be helpful for my lonely training periods!
