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2009-09-04 4:58 PM

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Aw man I'm stoked.

Just been to gym and bust out a 1500m swim. I can sprint 100m (by itself) in about 1:35 but my distance swimming has been hovering just around the 2:05 - 2:10 / 100m mark for quite some time.

Anyway tonight I dug deep and went for it, all that breathing practice and concentrating on the catch and glide is starting to pay off. Ok so my form drops away when I get tired but I know it's happening so can start to do something about it.

Stopped the watch after 1500m in 29:24   that's a 1:58 / 100m average, and it's a huge 1:46 faster than my previous personal best (so pretty much 100m faster if that makes sense?)

It's taken me since the start of the year to get here and no there's still a lot more to come

Next stop sub 1:50's!

Swimmings great isn't it!



2009-09-04 5:17 PM
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Good for you man!  I had a similar breakthrough recently.......still fairly new to swimming (only been swimming for like 2 months now), and could only do about 500m straight a month ago.  Today, I did 2000m straight (500m more than the distance of my upcoming tri!).  Now I need to work on shaving some minutes off of my time, but like you, I agree, this swimming thing is great!  Congrats on the breakthrough!
2009-09-04 5:21 PM
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Awesome breakthrough!  Keep it up!
2009-09-04 5:27 PM
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These breakthroughs are awesome. Way to go.
2009-09-04 5:59 PM
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Awesome!  Now I can draft you!!! Wink
2009-09-04 6:11 PM
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Congrats - that's a huge milestone ! (that's where I'm at right now, too... just under 2:00/ 100 )


2009-09-04 7:30 PM
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Cool!
Great job!

2009-09-04 8:53 PM
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Great job!  Now, what is a sub 2:10 (heck, what's a sub 2:15)?  I don't think I have experienced that yet.

2009-09-05 6:45 AM
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Congrats!  That is super-fast!
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