I'm going to set out to learn and become skilled at backstroke and butterfly. Also, I have set a goal to become very good at 1500 freestyle. I have only swam that distance with flip turns once.
What say you? What are your swim goals for 2020?
I'm not making any goals until my first meet of the year at the end of Jan. Had a lot happen last year with my health and shifting priorities so I'm pretty slow right now but hopefully back on track more or less. My goals for this winter season were 2:00 200 fly and 2:10 200 *** by Spring Nats, but again, we'll see what the first meet brings and if I will have to recalibrate.
In 2019, I started swimming again and went from 350 pounds to 225 pounds. My 1650 went from a 28:52 to a 19:46. In 2020, I’d like to get the weight under 200 and the mile under 18:30.
Wow. This is crazy awesome progress.
Thanks, I'll check that out. My shoulders seem good now.
I should add that by the end of 2020, I'm dreaming of doing other distances at the same level as 5:59 400m. (Basically, the SC WR x 59%.)
So, hopefully a sub16 for 25m, 34.3 for 50m, 1:16.2 for 100m, 2:48.4 for 200m, 12:31 for 800m, 23:57 for 1500m.
Most of these times are roughly twice what I can do now. Ie 50m at current 25m pace, 100m at current 50m pace, etc etc.
This is realistic, right? Swimgods? :)
The only one I'd think might be iffy is holding last year's 400 pace for an 800. That's a pretty big difference in race.
I'm not making any goals until my first meet of the year at the end of Jan. Had a lot happen last year with my health and shifting priorities so I'm pretty slow right now but hopefully back on track more or less. My goals for this winter season were 2:00 200 fly and 2:10 200 *** by Spring Nats, but again, we'll see what the first meet brings and if I will have to recalibrate.
In 2019, I started swimming again and went from 350 pounds to 225 pounds. My 1650 went from a 28:52 to a 19:46. In 2020, I’d like to get the weight under 200 and the mile under 18:30.
Wow. This is crazy awesome progress.
Thanks, I'll check that out. My shoulders seem good now.
I should add that by the end of 2020, I'm dreaming of doing other distances at the same level as 5:59 400m. (Basically, the SC WR x 59%.)
So, hopefully a sub16 for 25m, 34.3 for 50m, 1:16.2 for 100m, 2:48.4 for 200m, 12:31 for 800m, 23:57 for 1500m.
Most of these times are roughly twice what I can do now. Ie 50m at current 25m pace, 100m at current 50m pace, etc etc.
This is realistic, right? Swimgods? :)
The only one I'd think might be iffy is holding last year's 400 pace for an 800. That's a pretty big difference in race.
