I have a bit of a quandary with my upcoming 1-hour Postal swim. As I've been training for it, I've concentrated on hitting certain yardage (meters) at specific times. However, for whatever reason, at the SCM pool that I swim at about 99% of the time, there won't be a Postal swim conducted this year. I had to sign up for a time-slot at another nearby pool...that I've never actually swam in. It's a rather new facility at a local college. I was under the assumption that it too is a 25 SCM pool. So no big deal. But I just found out that it's a SCY pool. So my question is...other than the obvious of doing the math to convert from meters to yards to determine where I want to be at certain times...is there anything else that I should be considering? Should I just throw out my planned time/distance milestones from the SCM pool and just "go for it" in the SCY pool?
Dan
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I just did my 18th one hour postal. I used to try to have my counter flash me signals if I was above or below a certain pace. There were cowbells involved and the red and black side of a kick board. Also, there were instructions for standing at certain time markers. Through all this, I found I was confusing my counter and pissing myself off...so for marital harmony, I just go out in a pace I think I can hold and am appreciative she has a distance (or time for the other postals) for me at the end....and eternally grateful she has not left me for all the nonsense I put her through.:)
I just did my 18th one hour postal. I used to try to have my counter flash me signals if I was above or below a certain pace. There were cowbells involved and the red and black side of a kick board. Also, there were instructions for standing at certain time markers. Through all this, I found I was confusing my counter and pissing myself off...so for marital harmony, I just go out in a pace I think I can hold and am appreciative she has a distance (or time for the other postals) for me at the end....and eternally grateful she has not left me for all the nonsense I put her through.:)
