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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the school's swimmers are volunteering to do it for donations to their team (good idea).
I agree. I did this as a 'fundraiser' for my kid's team one year I was feeling particularly generous. Anybody that beat me, I donated $100 dollars and any "notable" efforts received $25-50 dollars. Surprisingly, I only was out about $250, with only one beating me. I brought donuts and gatorade (great vomitus combo BTW). I thought I was being nice but the kiddie swimmers were definitely not too interested in swimming an hour straight and were certainly hating me. Good intentions I guess.
Good luck with your swim.
the school's swimmers are volunteering to do it for donations to their team (good idea).
I agree. I did this as a 'fundraiser' for my kid's team one year I was feeling particularly generous. Anybody that beat me, I donated $100 dollars and any "notable" efforts received $25-50 dollars. Surprisingly, I only was out about $250, with only one beating me. I brought donuts and gatorade (great vomitus combo BTW). I thought I was being nice but the kiddie swimmers were definitely not too interested in swimming an hour straight and were certainly hating me. Good intentions I guess.
Good luck with your swim.
