tigerpaws wrote:
kmh1225 wrote:
I'm still waiting for my a-ha moment. My swim is frustrating and depressing, yet I'm so determined. I'm pretty sure I'm ST's sloooooooowest swimmer. The "you shouldn't do an IM if you can't swim faster than a 2:00/100yard" thread didn't help either....literally consumed my thoughts when I was doing "laps" last Saturday.
Have you considered taking a season and doing all your swimming with 'swimmers', not triathletes? If you are not doing this currently and take the leap I'd be surprised if you didn't come out the other end more than pleased with the results. I spent over 2 decades 'frustrated' like you until I jumped into the swimmer realm. Love it so much it's all I do now:) My n=1 was two fold. Outstanding technique instruction and extremely spicy workouts. Have yet to do a cookie cutter workout in 3 years with this coach. And the trajectory of my gains has been far and away greater than the entire sum of all my triathlon swim coached days. It's gonna be humbling so just take it as first day of school freshman year. If you have great eyes on deck it's a huge win as long as you carry through on your end.
YMMV....enjoy the journey!
my aha moment came within the past few months, while training for an ironman.
before that, i had seen little improvement from doing it on my own and joining a masters swim.
for me, it was to slow it WAAAAYYY down and focus on form. i'm talking, ridiculously slow. after two or three weeks of really concentrating on form at a really slow pace, something clicked. i felt stronger and faster in the water when i was swimming normal.
i've added on to that now, adding intervals to my workouts (swimming with much faster ppl). it's tough, but it pays off.