What Are Your 2021 Swimming Goals?

Right now I just want to get enough pool time to do full workouts and have a real meet. I'd like to be able to race, somewhere, anywhere. Agree. I just want to have the opportunity to continue to consistently train and to start to race again. In my dream world, I'd love to see LCM Nationals at the Spire Institute happen. That's now "road-trippable" for me and it looks like a fabulous facility. Plus, my wife said she'd come along, provided we go to the Columbus Zoo afterwards (we're big fans of National Geographic channel's Secrets of the Zoo, radio.wosu.org/.../secrets-zoo-national-geographic-gives-columbus-keepers-national-stage.

We are in a 2 week “freeze” and after that, hopefully, back to 45 minute lane reservations, hence my wish for adequate workouts.

Just got the word, pool closed another 2 weeks

I'd like to be able to race, somewhere, anywhere. I want to try the 500 scy again and maybe aim for 5:30ish... i swam it once last year at the end of several other events and was really worried about dying at the end. Now that I am back in the water with no meets, I'm spending my time building a bigger aerobic base (still not much comparatively speaking) and my hope is that will help me in the 500. If there is a scy nationals, I'd love to see how high I can place in 500Fr, 200 BR and maybe the 200IM. Mostly at this point, I'd take just hopping on the blocks in a practice suit and racing anyone for a 50 of anything :) Short of having any actual hope for racing, my 2021 swimming goal is to find consistent aerobic work, keep building a strong kick and get my base free time down another click or two. My hope is that I could build on that base for racing whenever it comes back!

sub 4:50 500 sub 1:50 200 sub :50 100 Probably on track for these if I could ever get a meet to taper for! Would love to hear how many times per week you swim and how many of these are longer 4-5k aerobic workouts... I see your blog but wondering just broad strokes how you are scheduling your workouts.

I am due for rotator cuff surgery in late Dec or Jan so WHEN I can swim in an pool will be in question. I age up to 75 in April of 2021 Goals: State meet in Illinois 100 & 200 fly 100+200+400 i m S C nationals : 100 +200 fly 200 + 400 i m 200 back 1,650 free

So it depends upon the time of year. Just was finishing up another base building phase. I was doing about 30k a week for about 4 weeks there, swimming every day. Developed a smidgen of "swimmer's shoulder" in my left shoulder, so I have been doing A LOT of kicking the past two weeks, and probably will continue kicking for the foreseeable future (saw doc today, no issues, just needs some rest). But during my aerobic phase I was doing mostly longer aerobic stuff, a dash of speed here and there, and ALWAYS some sort of quality speed set on Saturdays. When I have mended, I will be transitioning to speed/pace work most days, and drop down to 3-4k per workout (down from 4.5-6k before). Also was following this schedule pretty regularly from September through mid-November: Monday: Long Aerobic (6k ish) Tuesday: I.M. or Recovery (4-5k) Wednesday: Speed work (3.5-5k) Thursday: I.M. or Recovery, whichever I need more and depending on what I did Tuesday (4-5k) Friday: wildcard, maybe buckets, maybe speed work, maybe just drilling (2.5-4.5k) Saturday: quality and speed diving off blocks (3-4k) Sunday: OFF or Long Easy Aerobic (0-4k) Thanks! Super helpful. i too get a twinge-y left shoulder when i bump up the yardage too much. Currently swimming SCM and essentially doing this although days vary based on my call schedule. mon- 4-5k long aerobic tues off weds- long aerobic (4k0 or IM with aerobic thurs-kick focus, 2-3k, usually pretty dead legged after fri- usrpt or test set or off sat-long aerobic or long drill with lots of kick if shoulder dictates sun- off or 2500 'short stuff'/stroke I think at best i am getting 20k scm in... which is more than when i first got back in the water about 2 yrs ago, doing about 10k a week. I'll start stalking your blog a bit for main set ideas, thanks!

I'll start stalking your blog a bit for main set ideas, thanks! Definitely, man. Just leave a post there or PM me if you have a question :)

I really want to get back to consistency. Been a crazy year for everyone. Personally, Covid interruption, 3 nerve blocks in cervical and now down with the virus for a couple weeks has killed the flow. Flip side, I got a ton of cycling in . But i miss swimming and doing so in workouts with others consistently. 2021 will be better !

Allen, I hear you. I feel blessed that I live where there are fewer restrictions. I continue to feel very safe in my swimming environment.