Catch a wave...Or the swimming thread

[Pika]

I just keep repeating where I am as I turn this is 50 this is 50, etc then I always look at the timeclock- it gives me some idea of where I'm at too esp useful if I am repeating sets.

[chickwhorips]

I break it down to 500s which I only count when I hit the wall I started on up to 10 and then start over again for the next 500. I'll even lose count when I'm counting to 20, but for some reason I can figure out where I'm at by doing that.

[KSH]

I wonder if I lost count and did more lengths than I thought - I do that a lot. How do you keep track of how many lengths you've done? I must be so distractible...

At every 50, after my flip turn, I call out under water, "50"... "100"... "150".

For some reason, saying it outloud, even if underwater... helps me keep track.

I also have a workout written on an index card in a plastic baggie propped up on my water bottle. So, I might be doing 3,000 yards... but I have sets. For example, 4x100. So, that is 400 total. But I don't have to remember ALL the yardage I have done. It's written down. I just have to know where I'm at in the workout.

Now, when I have had to do like... 10x100... I put pennies out on a kickboard and I move a penny each time a 100 is done.

But for long sets... like a straight 1,000.. I just call out underwater.

[HillSlugger]

I use a SportCount (can never have too many gadgets!)

[chickwhorips]

I saw that sportcount! One of the girls at the pool had that and I thought it was pretty dang neat. I want that and the underwater mp3 player for long continuous swims.

[HillSlugger]

I have the one that counts laps and nothing else.

[Pika]

That sport count looks neat but I think it would drive me crazy.. I can't even stand having my watch on since it feels different side to side- guess I'll have to keep counting in my head too bad since I LOVE gadgets
Managed to get 3000 m in today- only the last 400 was a pain since we got squished into 2 lanes since the aquasize class started at 8.30- thank goodness we were pretty much finished by then.

[kelownagirl]

I want one. Just call me Madame Inspector Gadget.

I was late getting to the pool because my dentist appt ran late so I only got 25 minutes in. Did a warm up then decided to see how many lengths I could do in the last 10:00 (or how many I could do before I had to stop for a breath. I managed to do 300m in 10:30. Unfortunately it was 6pm by then and I had to get out. I'm sure I could have done at least another 100m. I can't wait until Wednesday. I'll try for 400m then.

[btchance]

Swam 1500 yards yesterday morning. I swam in the part that has no lane dividers, just the black line on the bottom to keep you straight so I was dealing with quite a bit of waves. Good practice for the tri, right? Tomorrow I'm supossed to join the tri-swim class at the gym. We'll see how that goes.

[Pika]

I just do 2 swims per week- I repeat the same workout on the second day- it is easy for me to see if I'm improving then or just having a easier time the second go around
Today it was 2000
200 swim
100 kick
200 drill/ swim by 50

4x 75 descending repeat 3 times
2 x 200 swim 150 moderate 50 hard

200 cool down
Felt easy today so that was nice

[btchance]

Swam 1500 on Wednesday in about :45 minutes, rests included. Felt pretty good once I got warmed up. Had planned to w/o with the Tri stroke class at 5:30, so I drug myself out there in the snow flurries in AL to get there, and there was only 1 other person in the pool even though I was a little late, so I just worked out on my own. After I got ready to go to work, I looked back out in the pool area and it looked like the Tri class was going on about 1 - 1:30 hour after it was scheduled. Grrrr!! No notice of the time being changed, so I don't know what happened. I'm going to check into it before next week, though.

[alpinerabbit]

2K today, just slow and steady. I am more than happy that these days, swimming 2K is merely a matter of willpower.

[kelownagirl]

Whoo hooo!! After my warmup, my goal today was to swim 400m without stopping (up from my 300m last week.) I managed the the 400m in 10:20 but felt good so I kept on going until I'd done 750-800m in 21:00 even!! I may have lost count at the very end so I'm not entirely sure if I actually made it to 800m like I though but I'll take the 750m happily because that's what I have to do in ther tri. (Of course, that will be in the lake, in a wet suit, with hundreds of other people kicking and splashing me...)

Oh happy day!!!!

[Wahine]

Yipppppeeeeeee KG!!

[Pika]

wow! Good work KG!- Your swimming is coming along great!