Swimming Offseason Challenge

As promised, here is the Swimming Off-season Challenge Template.  The idea behind the Challenge is to generate a more focused approach to the off-season through targeted goal setting.  Hopefully a Challenge will help break up the weekly monotony of training and help generate more camaraderie or competition among members.   The Challenge will run from Dec 1 - Apr 1 (or if people lose interest)

This is an individually designed challenge.  You can play as much or as little as you want.  You can even tailor the challenge to meet your specific needs.  The template is just a starting place.  Hopefully it has goals that span the entire spectrum of athletes in the forum. 

How to Play:    If you want to play, I would suggest that you first review the template.  I tried to set it up in a user friendly method.  I would recommend that you post to the specific thread what you want your primary offseason goals to be (e.g. Swim 1500 in under 20 mins).  Then get in the pool and see what happens.  When you are ready to report back, copy and paste the template as a new message in the thread.  Delete the template times and insert your time into the template.  Then in the future, copy and paste your template to keep track of YOUR progress. 

Rules: There aren't many. Basically, there are FOUR award levels: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum.  You earn that level once you reach the goal defined in the Challenge.  For instance, if I swim my fastest 100 in 1:51, I achieve Bronze status in that challenge.  I can't proceed to the Silver status until I get the time under 1:45 regardless of how many times I swim between 1:45-2:00. 

If you would like to add challenges, feel free to tack them onto the end of the template.  Want to challenge another member?  Throw it out there.  Want to form teams?  Go for it.  The challenge is for YOU to choose what you want to do with it.  The template is merely some guidance and a foundation to begin. 

Award Level	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum
Record Your Fastest Time
100	<2:00	<1:45	<1:30	<1:15
500	<11:30	<10:00	<8:45	<7:00
1000	<24:00	<20:00	<17:30	<14:00
1500	<35:00	<28:00	<25:00	<21:00
Continuous Swims
500	500
1000		1000
2000			2000
4000				4000
Improving Your Overall Time
500	:15	:30	:45	1:00
1000	:30	1:00	1:30	2:00
1500	:45	1:30	2:00	2:30
2000	1:00	2:00	3:00	4:00
Monthly Volume Benchmarks
5000	5000
10000		10000
20000			20000
30000				30000
Attend a Masters Class
First Timer		X
Join Masters		X
Regular Masters Member	X
Attend a Swim Clinic		X

Edited by ADollar79 2009-12-01 9:49 AM




Attachments
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2009 Tri Offseason Challenge.xls (20KB - 19 downloads)