So we have a "swim rant" thread, but I wanted to post my "swim happy" moment today, probably brought on by being out of the water for over a week.
Pool reopened after maintenance + clear, fresh perfect temp water + 6 lap lanes between 4 lap swimmers = 4200yd :bliss:
My first swim happy...
Took my 9 y/o son to the pool this weekend. He is in his first 6 months of swim team and had progressed amazingly well over the last 2 months. He has done 2 meets so far and seen most of his times drop somewhat. Well this saturday while we were in the pool swimming he busted out a sub 40 50y fr and sub 2:00 100y IM. Now those times are great but considering he didn't go off blocks nor did he flip turn I'm impressed. He has dropped 10 sec from his fr and 10 from his IM since the beginning of the year. Even more remarkable is my son is high functioning Autistic and is an animal when it comes to training. He got on me because I was taking too much break time and I wasn't doing the strokes that he prescribed for us to do on the set... I think he'll make a great coach.
I'm excited to swim in my first meet in 26 years this coming Sunday and show him what I can do!
That's fantastic! Watching our kids learn and improve is so awesome. My kids all swam in their fall/winter conference meet this past weekend and had a lot of great swims and lots of dropped times. My 11yo dropped quite a bit on both his IM and 100fr and we are all super proud.
Sounds like your boy is doing great! Good luck on your meet. :) :cheerleader:
:bow: to Dan Welkin! :applaud:
For sure!
And regarding video.. I almost managed to get one of the other swim moms to get video for me during practice last week, but things got busy with it being the last week of practice. I will see if I can get my husband to do that for me since he has started swimming with me.
Yesterday the same gentleman was at the pool and he and my husband chatted again after swimming. He gave us some tips - mainly he said I need to work on finishing my stroke further back, citing that his age group coaches always tells learning kids that the palms of their hands should get sunburned. So I'm recovering a bit too early and missing out on some power. Which was kind of funny as I had just been telling my husband that he needs to work on finishing all his strokes better.
Anyhow, he actually said that if his tip works then I owe him some help with *** stroke. That made me laugh a little. My breaststroke has been quite terrible (got DQ'd in both my breaststroke races in Omaha last summer)... perhaps all the work I've been doing on fixing that has paid off.
After 4 days in Denver, Colorado, I am back at sea level. My swim happy was (a) being able to breathe - the air felt so thick - and (b) averaging 1:12 for 10 x 100 on 2:00 best average. One of them was a 1:10 which is the fastest non-race split I've had in a pool for awhile.
My first swim happy...
Took my 9 y/o son to the pool this weekend. He is in his first 6 months of swim team and had progressed amazingly well over the last 2 months. He has done 2 meets so far and seen most of his times drop somewhat. Well this saturday while we were in the pool swimming he busted out a sub 40 50y fr and sub 2:00 100y IM. Now those times are great but considering he didn't go off blocks nor did he flip turn I'm impressed. He has dropped 10 sec from his fr and 10 from his IM since the beginning of the year. Even more remarkable is my son is high functioning Autistic and is an animal when it comes to training. He got on me because I was taking too much break time and I wasn't doing the strokes that he prescribed for us to do on the set... I think he'll make a great coach.
I'm excited to swim in my first meet in 26 years this coming Sunday and show him what I can do!
The 10th Annual Elko Triathlon was today. And for the 10th time I did the swim. This year I also did the bike then teamed up with my brother for the run. I tied my fastest time for the swim (set last year) and was first to finish the swim in the 18+ division and was 3rd off the bike. Then let my brother take over to finish the race. We ended up first in the team catagory and were 2nd overall! Not too shabby for a couple of old guys!
I actually helped a guy with (gasp!) breaststroke today! Whowouldathunk?
To give credit where it's due, this particular 50-something guy is receptive, listens well, is open to suggestions, and though he's a relatively new swimmer, surprisingly capable of translating verbal advice into real changes in his stroke. He's improved all his strokes over the last few months, including butterfly, which he's never swum before.
Today I noticed he wasn't hitting base position between his strokes. So I explained to him what it was, and why it was important, and swam a 50 to demonstrate. Then I went off to swim my next set. Fifteen minutes later, I saw him practicing, and he was hitting it beautifully. His stroke count had gone from 12 spl to 7-8 spl in a matter of minutes. I was delighted!
As a follow up to this ( forums.usms.org/showthread.php, I witnessed my swim student reach her goal of being able to swim a straight 25 yard freestyle without a snorkel. :cheerleader: She did it after our lesson was over, while I was packing up my gear. I looked up to see her going... and going... and going. I figured Gail would stop at any moment before reaching the wall, but, she persevered and made it! And, that was after she swam her first 50 yard backstroke- and, then, did it two more times! :ohyeah:
My swim happy is making a set of 20 x 100 on 1:20 today (scy) at the end of a 6k workout :D
:applaud: That's awesome! I had to do the same set the other day on 1:45, holding 1:34's on average. :blush: But, at 51, I am guessing I'm about twice your age. :cane:
