December Fish!

I just finished a whopping 13 laps for my swim (650 meters). The place was busy, but not too many people were in the lap lanes (yay!). I only had 30 minutes before I had to leave to get to work (on my day off, yipee.) but it felt pretty good. I'm trying to swim with my eyes closed as much as possible because I find it way more relaxing that way. I get all worked up when I imagine that people are watching me and then I mess up my tenuous rhythm. Of course, no one is actually watching me but whatever...oh the mind games I play with myself! :p

OK, I have a question about lane speeds. I'm not sure what lane to choose. When I swim, I'm doing a lap in about a minute...maybe just over a minute (1:10 ish). BUT, I still have to rest after every lap for at least a couple of minutes. I've gotten to where I don't rest after a length, but I do need to catch my breath after a lap. What lane do I chose? I'm swimming a lot faster than the slow swimmers even when I try to put forth very little effort, but I can't swim continuously yet, so I'd hold up the medium swimmers, right? Luckily, I've been able to avoid the circle swim so far, so it hasn't really been an issue yet, but I'm not sure what to do when that happens.

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Originally Posted by GLC1968

I'm not sure what lane to choose. When I swim, I'm doing a lap in about a minute...maybe just over a minute (1:10 ish). BUT, I still have to rest after every lap for at least a couple of minutes. I've gotten to where I don't rest after a length, but I do need to catch my breath after a lap. What lane do I chose?

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Personally, I'd pick a lane with a slower swimmer. I'd start my lap when the other swimmer was most of the way back towards me. That way, you can swim whatever speed you want and not catch that swimmer at the end of your lap (as she will already be starting down the lane on her next lap, while you take a break.)

After cleaning about a 1/2 inch of snow off the car I drove the 1.5 miles to the pool and swam 2300m.

My total for the year: just over 215,000m! :D

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Originally Posted by Susan Otcenas

Personally, I'd pick a lane with a slower swimmer. I'd start my lap when the other swimmer was most of the way back towards me. That way, you can swim whatever speed you want and not catch that swimmer at the end of your lap (as she will already be starting down the lane on her next lap, while you take a break.)

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Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. I'm just not sure how it will work if there are three or more of us (which hasn't happened yet but I expect that it will after Jan 1st).

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Originally Posted by MDHillSlug

My total for the year: just over 215,000m! :D

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WOW!!! Way to go! That's dedication. Do you have a goal for 2010?

I just went back and checked December - my first full month of swimming under my new coach's direction. 17,050 yards. I'm pretty happy with that!

I've really come to love swimming (but never as much as I love biking!)

I'm having a hard time right now figuring out what my goals for next year should be. I don't think I need to be doing more, maybe more focused, but not sure what that means. I definitely want to do more OWS.

Yup, 2100 yards:

Warm Up:
200 swim
100 kick alternating 25 easy, 25 hard

Main Set:
6 x 150 (R:15)

Odds are 50 easy, moderate, fast

Evens are pull with PERFECT form

Rest 1:00 at the end of the 150's

2 x 300 (R:20)

1st 150 is HARD like race start then settle into 150 moderate pace

Rest 1:00

8 x 25 done as alternating easy/hard,R:10
Cool Down:

100 easy focus on form

Happy New Year!