Bit of a short session today for various reasons, so I just cracked on with 8 x 250m followed by 3 x 200m, all front crawl, pretty much to try to rack up enough distance this week to reach my 500,000m target for this year.
Total distance for the month: 32,900m
Total distance for this year: 493,100m
Distance compared to annual target: 6,900m remaining
Tonight my daughter and I swam another USRPT set, her on fly, me on front crawl. We didn’t have much time, so my plan was for 200m warm up, 25 x 50m fly/front crawl and then 200m swim down.
Today I managed the entire set, but with a couple of failures. I used my Sportcount “Yellow” stopwatch for timing which worked well, but seeing the pace clock for the turnaround times was awkward. I need a better way to handle that.
Change of calculation for my target for the year from today. I’m now so close that it’s clearer to show how far there is left. Less than 10km to go. Potentially achievable this week depending on how things work out. I shan’t be desperately disappointed if I need another swim next week however.
Total distance for the month: 30,300m
Total distance for this year: 490,500m
Distance compared to annual target: 9,500m remaining
Thought I’d have another crack at a longer swim today, but I needed ten lengths to get warmed up given some remaining tiredness in the muscles from yesterday. After that I managed another 1km swim, followed by another 250, 6 x 50m and 3 x 100m, at which point there was no time left for anything else.
Total distance for the month: 28,700m
Total distance for this year: 488,900m
Distance compared to annual target: 46,200m ahead
Little bit of switcharound today, in that once I got into the pool I just kept going for a while. Ended up doing 1000m, 2 x 250m, 500m, 6 x 50m and 2 x 100m, all front crawl.
Total distance for the month: 26,600m
Total distance for this year: 486,800m
Distance compared to annual target: 46,100m ahead
A repeat of yesterday’s session, again to keep racking up the distance. Just over 15km to go…
Total distance for the month: 24,100m
Total distance for this year: 484,300m
Distance compared to annual target: 45,600m ahead
Tempted as I am to carry on with USRPT work, I really want to make my target of half a million metres this year, so today I just did a front crawl set as 8 x 250m, 6 x 50m, 2 x 100m, mainly focusing on the body rotation. Might do another USRPT set later in the week.
Total distance for the month: 21,600m
Total distance for this year: 481,800m
Distance compared to annual target: 45,100m ahead
Did a USRPT set this evening with my daughter. She wants to hit a specific time for 200m fly in the next five weeks, so I decided it was a logical way to go. I picked an easier time initially so we could get the hang of things and then she did fly and I swam front crawl on the same times.
It worked fairly well, though the pace clock is not easy to read through misty goggles. I’m going to have to hassle them about repairing the other one again, I can see.
Anyhow, I did 200m warm-up, swam sixteen 50s failing for the third time on the eighteenth and 100m swim down for a total of 1,100m.
Total distance for the month: 19,100m
Total distance for this year: 479,300m
Distance compared to annual target: 44,600m ahead
Work delayed getting to the pool today so I was somewhat late getting into the water. I just ploughed on with 8 x 250m front crawl which I finished just as the session was ending.
Total distance for the month: 18,000m
Total distance for this year: 478,200m
Distance compared to annual target: 45,500m ahead
I was delayed getting into the pool today because I bumped into one of my swimmers and her mum in the reception area and had a chat with them first. Once I’d made it into the water I thought I’d experiment with an idea I read from a US coach about body rotation in front crawl. His idea was that as the hand drives straight back the swimmer should think of moving the hip out of the path of the hand as it travels to mid-thigh. I found it works really well as a mental model of what should be happening and kept working on it for the entire session of 8 x 250m, 3 x 100m and 2 x 50m.
Total distance for the month: 16,000m
Total distance for this year: 476,200m
Distance compared to annual target: 45,500m ahead
Strange day at the pool today. I’d done a single 250 or somewhere near that with the pool pretty much to myself when two other people got in and started banging out the lengths at around the same speed as me, or perhaps a little faster. They were creating massive waves in the pool around them though (not a bow wave from the head — more due to “bouncing” in the water as part of their arm action). Quite a few times I had a wave wash right over my head as I was breathing.
Anyhow, I stuck at it and finished 8 x 250m followed by 3 x 100m, all front crawl, before deciding I’d had enough.
Total distance for the month: 13,600m
Total distance for this year: 473,800m
Distance compared to annual target: 45,100m ahead
