Have you improved over time? I'm talking actual time improvements compared to lifetime bests.
I consistently swam sporadically for several years. Get it?
For the past 9 months I have been training and racing fairly consistently and I finally feel like I'm on the verge of actually improving.
I have swam a number of best times in off events. I have not bested any of my big ones.
What has your experience been? I'm talking about lifetime bests.
I'm 33. I swam DIII in college. so, I was ok but not great or anything.
I'm mainly interested in your actual experience. Things that have actually happened. Rather than what is supposed to happen.
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I started in January (kind of in November, but I got serious in Jan).
At my first meet on Jan. 31st, I did my first 100 free. I got a time of 1:19:92. A few months later, I beat that time in the first 100 of a 500 free, with a time of 1:17. My last official 100 free event time was 1:11.95.
I haven't swam in two weeks, mainly due to the end of the team's season and the water polo team using our pool, but finally practices are starting back up again. Today, after being depressed as all hell b/c of being away from the pool for so long, I managed a 1:11 something on my first 100 free in my first practice in two weeks (and it was off the wall, not the block), narrowly beating a race time from almost a month and a half prior.
I went to on average 3-4 practices a week, and made about 45 of the practices over the whole three and a half months. Maybe I should've gone to every single one of them, but I think I was right to take it easy in the beginning. Love the sport first, and all that. But now... one of my coaches wants me to train with him about 2-4 hours a day, six days a week for a whole year so I can come back next season and be a... what's the word? A contender. I am of course going to take him up on his offer. And I'll find a venue for that seventh day. ;)
So, yeah, I think I've improved. :p
I started in January (kind of in November, but I got serious in Jan).
At my first meet on Jan. 31st, I did my first 100 free. I got a time of 1:19:92. A few months later, I beat that time in the first 100 of a 500 free, with a time of 1:17. My last official 100 free event time was 1:11.95.
I haven't swam in two weeks, mainly due to the end of the team's season and the water polo team using our pool, but finally practices are starting back up again. Today, after being depressed as all hell b/c of being away from the pool for so long, I managed a 1:11 something on my first 100 free in my first practice in two weeks (and it was off the wall, not the block), narrowly beating a race time from almost a month and a half prior.
I went to on average 3-4 practices a week, and made about 45 of the practices over the whole three and a half months. Maybe I should've gone to every single one of them, but I think I was right to take it easy in the beginning. Love the sport first, and all that. But now... one of my coaches wants me to train with him about 2-4 hours a day, six days a week for a whole year so I can come back next season and be a... what's the word? A contender. I am of course going to take him up on his offer. And I'll find a venue for that seventh day. ;)
So, yeah, I think I've improved. :p
