the March swim challenge starts TOMORROW! Who wants to be on the virtual swim team again?
Here’s how you play:
Set a goal (# of swims a week, goal yards, goal time for an event or time trial… I’m flexible) - email me if you need an invite to the google spreadsheet, http://spreadsheets.google.com/...5509544873&guest
(the usual request for spreadsheet help - it has the totals section from February - how do we clear that?)
You can post workouts and stuff on this thread, put your yards/meters into the spreadsheet to keep track of it all.
I’m in for 100k… with 2 meets (the one at the end of the month is a big deal)
I’m starting back training for tri’s after a 9 year layoff of doing not much more than martial arts training, and about 10 years of layoff before that. Swam competitively for 19+ years, but that was a long time ago.
I’m shooting for 2 workouts per week, hoping to get 10k in this month.
Welcome back to the pool!
Thanks! It was a rude awakening, I got in the pool for the first time a couple weeks ago, thinking “No problem, I’ll knock out a quick 1500 and head to dance class” (In addition to martial arts teaching/training, and the tri stuff I’m adding, I also take Irish Dance, influence of my wife, on Friday nights).
I got about 150 yds in, watching underwater as some guy doing breaststroke zipped past me, and crawled halfway into the gutter gasping like a 1/2 dead whale. It was pretty humbling. Still managed about 1500, although by the end it was swim 50 free, 50 breast, rest 1 min.
Since I probably won’t swim 20k today, I don’t think I’ll make my Feb goal =(, but this was really fun, soooo…
I’ll be in for 50k. I’m back to biking full-time, and the PT cleared me to try to run on Monday so hopefully HOPEFULLY! I’ll be spending a bit more time running this month. It’ll cut into the pool yardage, which is sad, but it’s ok-ish. Swimming’s hard work…
Swam competitively for 19+ years, but that was a long time ago.
Welcome back to the fishbowl.
Did you swim in college?
Kind of. It was really weird, I had a scholarship offer (Small NAIA school in Colorado), and midway through the summer workouts, I walked into the pool and just suddenly couldn’t stand the smell of chlorine or the thought of getting in the pool (I was 21, been swimming since I was 4). Coach took one look at my face, and said “You’re done, aren’t you.” Next year they axed the swim team entirely, I’m hoping that’s a coincidence
Good guy, though, pulled a couple strings and got my scholarship shuffled over to cross country.
I fixed the March spreadsheet, (mostly) but I still haven’t been able to get the first column, the one with the dates, etc., in it to float over the others as you scroll to the right: very handy for those of us who sign up later. Can anyone tell me how to do it?
I met my admittedly modest February goal after being out of the pool completely for 3 months with shoulder problems, (I was just starting to really swim regularly) so, I’m in again for March. I’ll go crazy and say 30,000 this time.
Perfect timing. I’m sitting here on the couch reading ST procrastinating going to the pool. I did the challenge in Nov and Dec and didn’t make my goal either time, but I did swim WAY more in those two months than I have in any other month since IMWI06, so I’m going to really really try to do it this time.
My goals are to swim at least twice a week and total 18,000 yards at the end of the month.
I like these challenges, but I think I need more severe consequences for not reaching my goal (other than floundering around in Lake Monona in September).
You, my dear, will be fine. We will both have a month free from shoulder injuries sound like a deal?
Heh. It took all of 1 day last month before I re-injured my back and missed most of Feb. And my knee surgery 3 weeks ago was a bust and a mistake. I won’t even go into the chronic hamstring and shoulder problems!
I have a long history of missed athletic goals. Some are just amazing twists. And people wonder why I no longer am a believer in positive thinking!
That sounds like fun. But I’m definitely not on the same level as most of ya’ll. Sign me up for 30,000 yds. How do you work the whole spreadsheet thing?
I like these challenges, but I think I need more severe consequences for not reaching my goal (other than floundering around in Lake Monona in September).
hmmm… if we were having a virtual meet I’d make you swim the 400 IM and 200 fly if you missed too many virutal practices…
Still managed about 1500, although by the end it was swim 50 free, 50 breast, rest 1 min.