On advice of a friend I started tracking my year to date yardage this year as a motivator to get the pool as often as possible, and to try to hit 1 million yards for the year. I've never done this in the 35 or so years I've been swimming but so far its been working pretty good; I'm 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
anyone else keep track of their yardage through out the year?
That's a good question. Obviously the cost isn't prohibitive, I think its more that masters swimming has pretty much vanished from my area. Its really just 2 friends and I (who both are USMS members curiously enough!) that get together and swim 5 to 7 times a week.
Following this off topic theme: In April last year (2010) there was a nice meet at the Wyoming Valley CYC. It had a sensibly late start that did not require getting up at some ridiculously early hour, it had a nice selection of events, it was well run, it's a nice pool, there was good food and drink afterward, (and best of all, I was generally very pleased with my swims). I was really disapointed that it didn't appear on this year's schedule. Did you go to that meet? Do you know why it was not held again this year? Maybe you can encourage the right people to put on a meet there again.
That's a good question. Obviously the cost isn't prohibitive, I think its more that masters swimming has pretty much vanished from my area. Its really just 2 friends and I (who both are USMS members curiously enough!) that get together and swim 5 to 7 times a week.
Following this off topic theme: In April last year (2010) there was a nice meet at the Wyoming Valley CYC. It had a sensibly late start that did not require getting up at some ridiculously early hour, it had a nice selection of events, it was well run, it's a nice pool, there was good food and drink afterward, (and best of all, I was generally very pleased with my swims). I was really disapointed that it didn't appear on this year's schedule. Did you go to that meet? Do you know why it was not held again this year? Maybe you can encourage the right people to put on a meet there again.
