Did you swim today?
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Yes, 2 miles @ 69 minutes (PERSONEL RECORD)1
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Holy smokes, folks. Impressive! I look forward to the day I can post like that!0
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AquaticQuests wrote: »NoelFigart1 wrote: »2000 yards ~1:00:00
Drills, drillls and more drills. I want to get my money's worth out of the swim lessons.
Way to go Noel. Longest yet, right?
As a matter of fact, no. I did a 3600 a couple of weeks ago, just to see if I could.0 -
Yes, 2 miles @ 73 minutes0
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Yes! 40 min--drills with my daughter. Lots of board work. I worked on all of the usual, focusing on a slower kick and relaxing. I explained the "Jellybean in the jar" approach to my daughter, Noel, and she loved it because she really struggled today. We're going to get some real jelly beans and put them in the jar when we swim. When the jar is full, THEN we can start eating them
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Awesome! I am definitely going to be eating them on my big swim!0
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Yes, 36x50@48 min=1mile
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Wow, Folks, some great swimming going on here - great job!!!!!0
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Happy with my swim today ... My first ever only front crawl 1k. Yay.
Also my first 1k under 30 mins. (28 mins, 15 secs - with 20 sec breathers every 500m)
That's the good news. The bad is that I really hated it a lot of the time - I was missing the variety. And i have to admit my motivation for the swim challenge came from pure sibling rivalry - found out my sis is swimming again at mo, doing 1 k crawl in 30 mins or so (with the breathers I followed). Mmmm, clearly I now want to improve my pace even further!
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Yes, 2 miles @ 73 minutes0
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Yes, 2 miles @ 73 minutes0
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1200 m free + 200 kick exercise 60 mins.
It was crazy in the pool today 5-6 per lane. Slowwww people in the fast and fassssst in the medium all mixed together with the normal crowd. Not sure what the mix in the slow lane was like. People need to read the BIG sign showing what each lane is designated as.
Vent - done.0 -
Bruceapple wrote: »Yes, 2 miles @ 73 minutes
Dang, going to start calling you "Bruceapple Fish". Did you have to take a snack break ....73 minutes!!! Great job0 -
1300 40 min.
You know how sometimes the best thing you can say about a workout is that it happened? Yeah...0 -
Been having shorter swims the past couple of days (30 mins only) as need to get into work a little earlier than normal. It just doesn't feel right.0
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18x50@24min. Rushed for time this morning. Some really great swimming going on here and good motivation0
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gently - great work, although you missed the variety you did a nice job getting the distance in. You can always occupy your mind with working on a particular aspect, or get a waterproof iPod & listen to the music. Sibling rivalry is always a good motivation, lol...
Juliet - the pool at my gym doesn't designate, so there can always be a mix. Thankfully, I'm there so early the most I've ever seen in 1 lane is 2 people (4 lane pool), so the lane gets split instead of circle swimming....
Bruce - you've really been racking up the mileage, nice work!!!!
Noel - I know exactly what you mean, but a workout just "happening" is definitely better than no workout at all. Great job pushing through.....
Panda - I hate when life gets in the way, I've hardly been in the water since the beginning of November. Although I'm back for this week, I definitely miss at least 4 days next week (if not the whole week) & then probably at least 1 of the 2 weeks following. After that I should be back pretty much every day.....
bama - It's great when we find out we can push ourselves more & find out what we can do. Having somebody nearby that makes you push yourself is always a good thing, & I find it distracts me from the effort....
Back in for the first time in awhile, all freestyle today: 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 1500, 1000, 500, 250. My set times were pretty much on course, so it was 114 minutes swim time - but the rest intervals were a little longer than usual. I think I'm going to stick to all freestyle for this week, when I'm back for good I'll start doing the I.M.'s again....0 -
Got back in the pool today, shoulder felt pretty good. 75 minutes of mixed drills, good workout.0
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Yes, 2 miles @ 65 minutes (PERSONEL RECORD)
Thanks all for the comments1 -
Glad to see everyone swimming away.
Due to illness and a church fast, swimming for me will have to wait another week till next week.
Happy swimming y'all!0 -
AQ, it's probably about time your body had a little rest anyway. Feel better & get all rested up.....
Bruce, you keep blowing those personal records away!!!!!
Welcome back to the water, Ronnie!!!!0 -
Double Dip day.
1000m at noon 35 min and swim lessons tonight mixed exercises 700m in 60 mins.
The last thing we started working on was the dreaded flip turn. When I drop my chin to my chest I keep turning my head like I want to get a breath so it causes me to do a corkscrew summersault. At least I recognize what the big error is, correct that and work on the small errors later.
Great swimming folks. Motivation for me to keep improving.
Noel: Its a Jelly bean in the jar.
Macstraw: thanks for all the encouragement and guidance!!
I am going to get some Green and Red Jelly beans.
When I have a good day it will be a green. Bad day a red.
See what the jar looks like at the end of a 5 week cycle. ( thank goodness for nieces and nephews who love Jelly beans- lets me empty the jar into there goody bowls )0 -
1500 ~45m
I have a watch that is supposed to track time and distance, and it's mostly good when I am just swimming laps. It's crap for drills, and that's what I am doing a lot of right now, as my swim instructor is all excited because I don't mind homework, and that seems to be the bulk of my workout these days. (As it needs to be. When you do 100,000 repetitions of an action the wrong way, it takes time to reprogram yourself!)
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Great swimming - and mutual support - people. I enjoy reading everyone's successes, and also sympathise with the frustrations - body woes, feeling like you are the slowest swimmer in the pool at times, stamina stalling, work getting in the way etc.
Anyway today was not a record setting swim (1200m, 45mins, lots of drills, plus quite a lot of sneaky waiting at the ends to be honest). It took a strong coffee and a chocolate wafer in the pool's cafe first ..... and a bit of stern talking to myself!
But at least I did it. And I do feel a lot better for it now.
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Yes, 2 miles @ 65 minutes PB0
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Juliet - you just got the biggest point with the flip turn, dropping the chin straight down to the chest without turning the head. One thing that will help is to keep the thought that you don't want to take a breath within at least the last 2 strokes into the turn so that you're not turning in that span. The other big key is to not pick the head up to look at the wall, you lose all your forward momentum if you do that. Instead, pick up the little "T" end of the line on the bottom of the pool & figure where you need to start your flip in relation to that. Once you know where that is, you can concentrate on looking at the bottom of the pool & just pull the chin down to your chest at the right point.....
Gently - today is a BIG victory for you, the difference between us before we were committed & the us that's doing this now is getting in there on days where we feel like this. That's why I'm so appreciative of the friends I have on here & the swimmers in this group, you guys definitely keep me motivated to get there even when I don't feel like it. In the past, I'd blow off those days & it became easier & easier to keep finding reasons to not go until I wasn't going at all. Now, when I wake up on those days I think of al the work you guys are putting in & it gets me out of bed & to the pool. Not happily sometimes, but I DO get there....
Noel - you are so right about trying to reprogram a habit like that. It's so much more difficult to unlearn & relearn than it is to get it right from the start....
All free again today, my standard distance workout: 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 1500, 1000, 500, 250 in 114 minutes. Rest intervals were a bit better than yesterday, although I started out with heavy arms, they loosened up fairly quickly & I felt better than I expected to.....0 -
40 minutes of drill and practice. Something is changing. I felt that elusive rhythm that I've been seeking. The pool was crowded and I found out that with the right lane, I really enjoy sharing a lane. I don't mind circle swimming at all. It keeps me going and pushes me to turn around and go when I reach the end. I have some mental hurdles that circle swimming just doesn't allow for. Last night there seemed to be a lot of adult beginners. I love seeing that because although I'm not fast, and I stop a lot, I can see that nobody cares. Everybody is there for one reason: water time.
Noel, I totally get your trying to undo things learned wrong. It's basically what I'm doing each day. I'm grateful for your jelly bean analogy though. It reminds me that those "bad" days are really important. They probably feel bad because something is going right and it feels new and different.
gently, a coffee and chocolate wafer at the pool cafe?? Wait a minute! I can get crappy coffee and popcorn, neither of which I want. I'd swim for coffee and chocolate too.
Juliet, I put a jelly bean in my jar last night and realized that SMALL beans I bought! It's going to take forever to fill this (very small) jar! I'm not ready to visually see the good vs bad days yet. There might be too many bad beans in there, lol. It IS motivation to keep going though. When I started swimming, I couldn't go running. I told myself I'd see what it did for my body through Christmas and then make a decision about whether or not to continue. Well, here I am!
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The point of the jellybean analogy is to get away from quantifying and overanalyzing each workout. The fact they happen consistently and build up a volume of work is the important thing.0
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Masters Swim last night. Practice for the swim meet coming up. Which I have signed up for. 50 m free, 100 m free and 1500 m free on a long course. This will be my first meet.
Swim was a series of 50 m timed sprints with good breaks in between plus one 100m sprint.
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