I’m in. I just started back up swimming (reminder to self- never stop swimming for 3 months.). I’m afraid my goal won’t be much more than about 25K, though. But it will still help me get motivated. (I’m not sandbagging, I swear. I just suck at swimming.)
you’ll like these winter challenges, it definitely helps with motivation. I only swam 27K last month which was about 2 swims per week, but more importantly it was 27K more than last November!
Interesting.
I’ve changed my swim workouts, - dropping from 6 days a week down to four. But, i’ve been increasing my overall practice distance from 3500 meters per workout to 5000 meters. It’s been great, and I feel a lot more refreshed and more psyched to swim now that I’m swimming fewer days. I’m planning on doing the Trans Tahoe Relay solo this year, - so I really need to log in the meters…
Troublemaker.
My longest week ever was 15K. 2nd longest was around 12K, normal is around 8K. But I have a swim camp coming up, so I need to raise the bar before then. I’ll shoot for 50K as a nice round stretch target.
12/1 lunchtime 3000m (1000 free/250 breast/250 back/250 breast/250back/1000 free) 65 minutes elapsed.
first swim since SoS (2.5 months). no worries. no time targets. a good way to get back in the pool.
I’m in for 50K.
That puts me over a quarter million for the year. Quarter million…wow that sounds like a lot more than 250K. :-)))
3200 down, 46.8K to go. score is 6.4%
You get to keep track this time. :-))
I sure hope you are right! I just committed to IM Brazil, which means I have 3 months less to be ready than I originally thought I did!!!
I’m in for 50K.
That puts me over a quarter million for the year. Quarter million…wow that sounds like a lot more than 250K. :-)))
3200 down, 46.8K to go. score is 6.4%
You get to keep track this time. :-))
Oh man…I can see the challenge for next YEAR… who can swim 1,000,000 yds/meters…who’s in???
BTW…it works out to just under 27,500 a day, just over 19,000 a week.
Seeing your post I decided to go and check my log and add it up. 554,000 meters for the year. My running mileage for 2006 is the lowest it has been in 20 years, but the swimming has let me stay in the game…though truth be told, in the game heavier than usual.
Course now I am wondering if trying to do a 100k in one month is smart considering it took 11 months to get 500,000+. We’ll see!
I’m in. I’m only hopingfor 25K thismonth, even with the holiday. I’m obviously not as hard core as some of yall, but if I can do this on two days of swim per week, I’ll be happy. If I can make 30K, I’ll be ecstatic!!!
Jason
why am I a troublemaker?! I’m an angel… 
I’ll keep track, no problem.
you made me curious what my yearly yardage was, so I went back through my log and added it up: 1,200,900 yds to date. Works out to ~325 hrs in the pool staring at that black line… oh my god that’s a long time.
Okay, time for an interesting experiment. I’ll log the December mileage until my Christmas break. No distance week. Unlike November, speed will be the emphasis instead of strength/conditioning. I’m hoping 90k for the first 3 weeks, we’ll see how the work and training schedules pan out. So less than half of November’s total. See how that goes.
what will you do with all the time you’re not in the water?! hee hee.
you’re in. see the front page for names, goals, and current yardage. Happy SWIMMING
How about a 100km week?
Not unheard of in swimming circles…
are you entering the challenge with that as your goal yardage
14.3k a day, every day, for a week = 4 hrs/day x 7 days = 28 hrs of swimming
I’m not interested. I LOVE to swim but I think after that much time in a week, I’d want to drown myself.
Hmm… Sounds ambitious. 
“ambitious” is one word to describe it
“exhausting” comes to mind.
7,400 yds for me today:
12oo w/u
1o x 1oo on 1:30 desc 1:15–1:10
12 x 5o on :5o recovery
4 x 1ooo off the blocks, ~2min rest between - held 12:30s
6oo c/d back
I really like doing sets of the blocks, it makes that first 25 feel so fast! then, uh, 975 left to go 
I’ll join. I too am doing a swimming focus thing for two months. I saw the november thread and it looked fun. But I didn’t count my yards. So I’ll calculate a reasonable goal for december and try to shoot for it.
sure. once you calculate your goal, tell me, and I’ll add you to the list on the front page.