50 Miles of Swimming by MAY 1 (Page 3)

Might get there within a week. Need it too. Lost a bit of speed and have been kind of flat the last couple weeks. More swimming should help that pick up again. Especially need to focus in the faster parts, and getting more of them in. Losing feel around the catch.

I've been eyeing this challenge but wasn't sure if I would be able to get back in the pool in time to commit.

I'm in now and on a plan similar to Brad's to catch-up :)

6100 yds so far this week (and year total).

On this site at least, you can tell it either by the Pace section of the workout entry. Set it mins /100y or mins / 100m and it will convert the total to your default setting. For example, I swim in predominantly yards pools, so that is my default for the totals. Sometimes I might go to a meters pool (one masters pool is bulkhead and will switch over). I can enter the distance in meters, switch the Pace to mins / 100m. After saving, the total will be converted to yards. No need to enter a pace or calculate, just swap the dropdown.

And nice to see you again Elesa!

Thanks Brad and Ben.  It's good to be back, and it's VERY good to actually be training again.

2300y yesterday. S-l-o-w-l-y working my way up to longer sets again.  A little surprised by how much I "lost" in six weeks out of the water :(

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Ben, we need to assign you a different goal!  Don't you get 50 miles in a month? ;)

Hey HR--glad to see you in here!

Cold in Vietnam--hahahaha!  Yeah, right!  There are at least four of us in this group in the midwest and a few Canadians; we'll try to extend you some cold-weather sympathy;)

Your "fun" set sounds like torture, btw.  Who in the hell does voluntary 100s of butterfly? 

You're a sick, sick woman.

And awesome. 

Strong work:)

I might.  Looking to average just a bit less than that though. There aren't a whole lot of swimming challenges to pick from, so take what I can get.

That would certainly be a handful! I could do it, but would probably end up doing the fly in the 1-arm drill. Might sound harder to those not familiar, but actually allows breathing to the side, so not quite as tough. Also helps work on the rhythm a bit more instead of being so frantic about getting up for the next breath. 

I'm making this challenging for myself.  Only 5,400 yds since last post,  Only one swim in the last two weeks.  Lost a few days to power outages around my parts from storm, a little general laziness and worst of all the pool I use has been packed lately. 

Nice! I've been trying to work on fly (and the other strokes to an extent). Does the breathing every stroke work ok? I've been close to hyperventilating when going that much. Usually try for more every other to 2 of 3. More than that and I'm probably floundering quite a bit already.  More of thing to help get someone started? I try to extend a bit more than glide (meaning I'm active instead of just holding position), otherwise I lose the rhythm and bog down, needing a monster pull to get going. Also have some trouble getting around to really catch and pull well. Some of this probably has to do with becoming more familiar with it. Doing lots of the kick has helped, was stiff as a board before.

That 800 IM sounds crazy! Then again, since our masters team is hosting the state meet this year, our 400 IM guy wanted to set up an exhibition 1500 ... non-free!

Ok, sounds each of ours triggers a little different then. I need to stay more relaxed with breathing and those patterns help with it. Like with swimming free. Coach had me work into every 3 strokes instead of 2 so much and it helped. Airway would tighten up by trying to force in & out so fast. What I end up with seems to be most natural and relaxed.

Also sounds similar with the other parts of the stroke. I have to be careful of relaxing *too* much on it. Don't have the strongest recovery and a more limited range of motion (more so out front with these, getting towards entry) as I'm not naturally that flexible. Also a 6'4" wingspan to bring around. Close to the height of more elite swimmers, but not built up quite as powerfully as they are.

That kick & core action has made a difference in my free as well! Improved feel of positioning and much more ability to do something about it with the greater conditioning. I'd encourage others to do more of this before trying other core strengthening exercises that work the same area.

I'm back in it.  I have a weak 14,100 yds in for 2014 so far.  The marathon and Tour of Sufferlandria hurt my swimming in January, so I'm just now getting back into the swing of things.  I'll get there but it's going to take some 4 day weeks (which I probably need anyway...)

Never know with him.

Hit 90,000 last night. Been paying more attention to some positioning & extension things and feel is coming back. Seeing 1:12's scy again, but not the entire workout. Harder to hold than it should be, but that will come back with more swimming.