50 Miles of Swimming by MAY 1 (Page 5)

Lots of short stuff the last few days seems to have helped out. 4k+ at masters tonight. Pacing was a few seconds/100 faster than last Thursday and substantially easier to do. Seeing :14 & :15 again on late set 25's too.

2,200 yards today including a 1k TT.  Averaged 1:25/100 for the 1k.  Not terrible for early in the year, but I'd like to average under 1:20 by May.

21,300 yds total

Woah, there is some crazy fast swimming going on in here.  Nice job everyone.  Very motivating:)

I like the idea of setting some sort of "speed" goal.  Mine are in yards.

< 1:20/100

< 6:00/400 (1:30)

< 26:00/1600 (1:35)

 I had, or was dangerously close, to these this fall, but my haitus has set me back a bit.  Because we've had to relocate into town while our house is being rebuilt, I've been entertaining the idea of going to Masters.  I'll probably do it, but I want to get a little more endurance and feel back before going.

Had my longest set for this year so far over lunch today--3350 yards.  Brings me to 16350 since Jan 31.

"Drizown." Nice.  Snoop has regular rotation in my swimming music, and I will now think of that every time he comes on :)

I'm with you on the 4x/week strategy.  Doesn't always happen, but that's going to be my goal.

Running after you swim?  You so crazy!  How are the leg/foot issues, Brad?

10,200 since my last post on progress.  The two weeks off messed me up a bit.  My total so far is 39,600 yds to date.

I'm at 1:09 for a base on the 100/yds.  Got a little work to do to get back under 1:00.

Are you a pure swimmer or triathlete?  What's your background, if you don't mind my asking.

I don't mind at all.

Not much of either I'm affraid!

What kind of background info?  I've been doing tri's for the last 4 or 5 yrs.  Before that I was a couch potato and many years before that a swimmer.  Got back into the pool to lose weight, down 50 just can't shed the last 10 - 15 (dam wine / beer).

I was wondering if you grew up as a swimmer or not.  Your 100 time is impressive.  The fastest I've swam a 100 ever is 1:05, so averaging 1:09 over a course of 100's would be very fast to me.

I'm entering my 5th season of tri, and while I am getting faster in the swim, I'd love to swim more at the pace you're aiming for.

I might have confused you on that.  1:09:00 was my time for for first 100 of the set.  Originally we were talking about going under a min for a 100 but then changed it to everyone lowering their fastest time?  I might have been off on that.

Right now I hold about 1:15 for a short set of 100's.  Growing up I was a swimmer.  I did enought to get a scholarship for college.  The HS program I was in was very competetive.  Back to back national prep champs not that I had a ton to do with that.  We had 2 or 3 Olympians on our team and a guy who set a WR his jumior year.  The coach and program has produced a number of olympians over the years.  My fastest (scy's) 50 was 22.1 and 100 I can't remember my best but I am fairly certain I went under 0:50:00 once or twice.  The only reason I remember the 50 time exactly is it always bothered me I never broke 22.  Had I not broken 0:50 for a 100 that would probably be engrained in my mind also.  I also swam fly which was my best stroke and some IM.  Funny thing is typing this I couldn't tell you one other exact time from when I swam competetively other then the 50.  As I said, that really bothered me.

Also I think I remember reading some posts from you on running a marathon recently?  I'd rather run like you!

Ok that makes more sense, but it's still impressive.  My personal goal is just to get my speed in general better.  My way of benchmarking that is by doing a 1k test, which I like since it's between my two race distances (sprint and oly).  As of Monday I averaged 1:25 and would like to get that average under 1:20, so I got some work to do by May.

I wish I swam more when I was younger.  Everyone who blows me out of the water (pun!) seems to have had some swimming background.

My run is decent.  I didn't make my marathon goal, but I am alright with the 3:35 I got.  I'm much happier with the 39:21 10k I ran while training for the full.

I want to fit a 4th swim in my schedule, but I'm currently doing 4 bike and 4 run workouts a week, so it's tough to fit it all in.

I've been working on run a lot this year and last year until I got hurt.  I jumped in this thread to get myself swimming more then twice/week.  I like the fastest 100 idea to get me working while I'm there instead of just putting some time in which I have been very guilty of the last two years.  If I can keep the motivation up I'll get back to 3 days a week of 1 day pure speed workout and the other two a mix of short yd stuff and distance swims.  Once or twice a month I'll add a long swim of straight 2K - 4K which probably doesn't do a lot but it's mental for me.   

39:21 for a 10K would be a pipe dream for me.  I'd be thrilled to keep anything close to that pace for a 5K which is a fantasy also.

Hmmm. You almost have me convinced to try it. I have never bricked with a swim, though I often feel like a brick when I swim ;)

Glad to hear your feet are good at the moment.  That's major progress. 

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6 x ((5 x100) + 100 kick)) for me today.  Tried to keep RI < :15, was under for all but a few. First day since I've started swimming again where I had really good (for me) 100s.