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My personal challege
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 2006-11-29 9:22 PM |
Champion  6993      Chicago, Illinois |  Subject: My personal challegeLast weekend I did a swim time trail and it went so well I lengthened it from 1 mile to 1.2 miles. master swim class is help out so much I thought I see how fast I could go and over a 1.2 mile swim I took off 22 mins. 1.2 miles is the farest I have gone so far, and I was pretty tired. Well this weekend since my knee is still recovery I thought about a nice weekend swim. Instead of another time trail I thought it would be fun to see how far I can go. really without stopping too much except to pee. I will not pee in the pool. Also to add 1 more to lap counter and see just where I am and how long its taken me, but really no rest breaks. Question is how far can I go? Any one want to wager a guess? my guess is 2.4 miles since I figure if I can get that far I might as well stop since I do not know if I ever want to go farther than that but frankly doubt I will get there. |
| 2006-12-01 2:22 AM in reply to: #611812 |
Extreme Veteran 319 Dallas, Texas | Subject: RE: My personal challege A little swim coaching goes a looong way! Good job on your PR. My wager is the same as yours. If you think you can go 2.4 miles you probably can. When I increased my distance in the pool I simply had a number in mind and no matter how tired I was, I swam until I reached it. You can do it! Let us know how you did. |
| 2006-12-02 2:56 PM in reply to: #611812 |
Champion 6993 Chicago, Illinois | Subject: RE: My personal challege Well I did my swim. I decided to stop at 2.4 miles. I guess its easier to push yourself when you have a distance out there to push too. I did the 2.4 miles in 2:08:51. Now I did stop to pee twice and I stopped the watch then since if I was doing a race I would have to pee right where I was so I would not lose time. Funny. I did the whole thing free stlye except for 1 lap I did the back stroke. I did that after I think .5 miles too. I guess I thought I was going to need to do it alot but I it cost me alot of time so I figured screw it and did it freestyle who the rest of the way. |
| 2006-12-03 7:00 PM in reply to: #611812 |
Master 2287 Calgary, Alberta | Subject: RE: My personal challege Congratulations! That's quite the distance and time spent swimming. Great achievement. |
| 2006-12-04 12:29 PM in reply to: #611812 |
Extreme Veteran 319 Dallas, Texas | Subject: RE: My personal challege Thanks for sharing your experience pushing the distance. That's really exciting. Feel proud! |
| 2006-12-04 12:40 PM in reply to: #611812 |
Champion 6993 Chicago, Illinois | Subject: RE: My personal challege Thanks. Funny it turned out to be easier than I thought considering the other 2 events in Ironman. Makes me want to swim that length every weekend now so I can get better and better at it. Just amases me how far I come from barely being able to swim .5 miles in late june or early July and that still took me 56 mins. I was sore when I went to master swim class today though. Yes my coach was amased. |
| 2006-12-10 11:05 AM in reply to: #611812 |
Regular 82 | Subject: RE: My personal challege YIKES!!! the longest swim I ever did was 750 yards!but THAT is long for me. |
| 2006-12-10 12:35 PM in reply to: #611812 |
Resident Matriarch N 43° 32.927 W 071° 24.431 | Subject: RE: My personal challege TAGP and I did a 3 mile open water swim this summer. My time was just under 2 hours, she was somewhat faster than that. Anyhow, if I can do that, so can anyone else. Give it a shot! |
| 2006-12-10 4:49 PM in reply to: #620353 |
Champion 6993 Chicago, Illinois | Subject: RE: My personal challege TriGirl10 - 2006-12-10 11:05 AM YIKES!!! the longest swim I ever did was 750 yards!but THAT is long for me. You know my first swim atleast in a long long time and I never really trained at swimming was during my first tri and was .5 miles. even .75 miles seemed so long when I tried it once. Funny how you can keep going but form is very important. Work on form first and you will be surprised how easy everything comes. since I start master swim about 1 month ago I have taken about 40 secs off my 50 meter time already jjust because of my form. |
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