What Are Your 2020 Swim Goals?

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Former Member — Sat, 23 May 2020 11:40:33 GMT

I'm so f*****g depressed. It looks like my new sport (I started in earnest in February 2019) will the the LAST thing that gets back to normal in the post-Covid world. I'm thinking to give up swimming once it has been confirmed the race I've signed up won't be held.

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Former Member — Sat, 23 May 2020 05:28:03 GMT

I'm so f*****g depressed. It looks like my new sport (I started in earnest in February 2019) will the the LAST thing that gets back to normal in the post-Covid world.

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Elaine Krugman — Wed, 20 May 2020 10:06:20 GMT

I think we will need a vaccine available to all of us before we can hold a meet of any size. I M O I know I won't be participating in one until I can get a vaccine, so I'm with you!

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Karl_S — Wed, 20 May 2020 06:55:23 GMT

PA cancelled State Games too.

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orca1946 — Wed, 20 May 2020 04:33:21 GMT

I think we will need a vaccine available to all of us before we can hold a meet of any size. I M O

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Former Member — Wed, 13 May 2020 16:34:26 GMT

Looks like most pools will be open with the newly released stagger system of alternate walls per lane so one in shallow one in deep etc. No multiple swimmers per lane. Fortunately its summer so I don't mind coming and going in my suit. Of course we would still have to go thru the office to check in. Have any of you heard anything along these lines? Teams might be able to do more in a lane by keeping swimmers of the same speed two in a lane but not random swimmers coming to a community pool. Maybe I should put this in another thread, but if I go to a pool, and I am severely restricted in what I can do, and how I can do it, then I might just NOT go to the pool. I gotta do my thing, Man.

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Former Member — Tue, 12 May 2020 14:18:00 GMT

I did my first Ironman last summer and the swim portion was by far my favourite part so I have signed up for my first 10km swim in September of 2020!

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orca1946 — Tue, 12 May 2020 11:54:11 GMT

As I age up to 75 next season - go to Nationals and do well.

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flystorms — Tue, 12 May 2020 10:01:41 GMT

It's going to be interesting to see what is done with the state games that lead up to the National Senior Games next year. I'm not sure how many states will be able to hold meets in time to meet the requirement for next year. Hmm.... At this point, just getting into a pool will be exciting, no set goals for what that's going to look like this year. I've been doing a ton of walking and the legs are stronger than they've ever been so I hope, at least, my kick will be strong. :)

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Former Member — Tue, 12 May 2020 09:00:25 GMT

I hope at least one of the OW races I signed up for will still happen!

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Allen Stark — Tue, 12 May 2020 03:36:08 GMT

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Dan Kornblatt — Mon, 11 May 2020 09:18:11 GMT

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Former Member — Sat, 09 May 2020 16:22:13 GMT

My goal now is just to swim in a meet. Yeah, I like this. Just be in a meet.....I don't care how "fast" I swim. Some kind of normalcy is a wonderful goal!!

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Former Member — Sat, 09 May 2020 16:19:31 GMT

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? :) Lol. Can't. Stop. Laughing.

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Former Member — Sat, 09 May 2020 16:16:48 GMT

I've updated my signature. :) When I first started swimming in Feb 2019, I dreamed of sub 6min 400m at 60. (I'm 57.) I rapidly improved to 6:15 in September, and I changed my goal to sub 6min by the end of 2019. But then came The Great Stall, followed by shoulder soreness and staleness. It occurred to me that I had been going non-stop since Feb, and I needed a break. So I'm dreaming about sub 6min by the end of 2020 now. The seconds got a whole lot bigger!! :) Lol. Well, this may have changed. :) Covid actually did me a bit of a favour.....I really did need a break. But, maybe not this many weeks. My new 2020 goal is rather simple: Break at least one of my pre-covid PRs that you see in my sig!! (Sig updated.)

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Patrick W. Brundage — Sat, 09 May 2020 11:41:24 GMT

My goal is just to swim! Until our lakes warm up more, I'm a frog without a pond.Ditto!

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67King — Sat, 09 May 2020 08:43:38 GMT

Mainly to get rid of my quarantine-15! Swimming solo a couple of years ago, my split times in the practices put me where I thought an NQT in the 100 fly was attainable. So, I had a goal to start working out occasionally with a team in teh Fall of 2018, but an unexpected death in the family (out of town, and I was executor) killed that. In 2019, an illness that kept me out of the water for nearly 2 months, which led to injuries, and more junk delayed that. So I tried after meeting the Masters coach at a club meet in February. And then the pools got closed. I'd like to eventually swim in a meet. Somewhere, some time. But who knows when, as we may be visiting colleges for 67Princesses coming up soon.

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aztimm — Sat, 09 May 2020 01:58:37 GMT

My goal now is just to swim in a meet. I'm not too confident that my LMSC will have any meets this year. Sure if they do have a local meet I'll go. I did one of those last year and it was kind of fun. It does sound like some open water swims will be happening this year. I've been in contact with the race director of a 10k swim and she said that they wouldn't have any problems distancing swimmers apart (can easily do staggered starts). I'm registered to do Swim the Suck this fall; I'm hopeful it will happen, but not quite sure. Thankfully I've been swimming in a local lake. Just 2-3 days a week, about 3 miles each, but it is better than nothing. If it looks like some swims happen, I'll try to squeeze in another day and increase the distance.

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Elaine Krugman — Sat, 09 May 2020 01:29:39 GMT

Ditto! :bighug:

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Michael Martin — Fri, 08 May 2020 07:39:33 GMT

My goal is to just to swim also. Waiting for the ocean here to at least get up to 60 degrees before I go in.

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Elaine Krugman — Fri, 08 May 2020 05:59:24 GMT

My goal now is just to swim in a meet. My goal is just to swim! Until our lakes warm up more, I'm a frog without a pond.

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Allen Stark — Fri, 08 May 2020 05:35:45 GMT

My goal now is just to swim in a meet.

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Former Member — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:52:19 GMT

My main event this year are the European Masters Championchips in Budapest (LCM) in June. My goal is to swim 200m back in a good time under 2:20.. Top5 placement in my strong age group (40-44)..would be great! I am going to swim 4 another events in Budapest too: 100m back, 100m fly, 50m back and the 400m free as a new distance and stroke. My preparation has been started 1 month ago and I swim around 20km a week.. I hope to get in a good shape for my first long course meetings in a few weeks.

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mjtyson — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:15:23 GMT

I guess I should list out my goals for the year: a) swim at least 200 miles b) finish the Rose Pitonof swim c) get in and finish Swim the Suck

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Former Member — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 17:46:15 GMT

Just got back into the water in November. It has been 16 years since I last did a meet (D3 college). Very little lap swimming since. I gave up coaching after this summer and wanted to get back into shape. I signed up for a 2.4 mile open water swim in July as motivation and joined Masters swimming to do some meets and make it more fun. My goals are sub 1 hour for the open water swim and get back to my college swimming weight by the end of the year. Hopefully have some fun as well.