Master's

Swam, but was feeling tired after two days of swimming fast

Master's

Swam again, felt fast.  Did a 35 from a pushoff at the end of an hour practice, after multiple fast goes.

Master's

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Swim

Swam by myself.  Did a 200 yard IM in 3:40.  I almost quit after the 50 butterfly,  Still it was awesome to do and I know I can improve.

Master's Swim

Did the master's swim and Galen had me doing some sprint drills which were fun.  She also helped me with my flip turns, which are getting better.

Later I swam some doing Zoey's lesson.

Masters

Swam today.  There were just faster swimmers by a long shot today so i had a hard time keeping up.  I can go fast, but I need recovery to maintain fast speeds.  We were doing butterfly 25 yards on 40 seconds X 6.  I did 4 then was complete toast.

Goals

These are my swimming time goals:

50 Free                 Current: 31:00

Goal # 1                - 30:39   World Qualify

Goal # 2                - 29:99  Break 30

Goal # 3                -28:80 Masters

Goal # 3                - 27:33 National

100 Free               Current: 1:17:00 (practice)

Goal # 1                1:10:21  World Qualify

Goal # 2                1:06:00  Masters

200 free               NT

Goal # 1                2:44:26  World Qualify

100 IM                  Current: 1:25:23

Goal # 1                1:20:00

Goal # 2                1:16:00 Masters

Goal # 3                1:10:88 National

200 IM                 NT

Goal # 1                3:00:50 – World

Goal # 2                2:57:70 – Masters

50 Breast            NT

Goal # 1                0:40:54-Worlds

50 Fly                   NT

Goal # 1                0:33:33

1650 Free            Current 31:26 (easy practice)

Goal # 1                29:99

Goal # 2                Mile in 29:99

Lake Quassy      Did 3 Mile Swim

Swim 5 Mile Challenge

Plan of attack

Figure out what I can qualify(world Times, then once i do with practice times,  pick races to qualify in;

here are the probables:

50, 100, 200 Free

50 Butterfly, 50 Breast

Master's Swim

Swam today and we worked on turns and then did 4 25 yard sprints.  I did the free in 14 and 13 seconds.  i did the butterfly in 16 and the breast in 20.

Master's Swim

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Master's Swim

Swam today, I was really tired, but I went.  In the warmups. I practiced limiting my breaths.  Every fourth lap, I swam 25 slow on one breath halfway.  When we got to our main set, my group, had to do 100s on 1:45, which is about my limit, so Holly switched me to 2:00.   At the end she wanted us to swim 100 as fast as we could.  I was beat, and initially said I would just warm down, but after resting a few minutes, I went and did a 1:17 from the water, which was faster than anyone in the 1:45 group.  It was fun swimming it.  I hit my flip turns well.  I did get tired.  I'd like to see what I can do from the blocks rested with my racing suit on.

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Master's Swim

Swam 2750 yards tonight.  I was tired.

Master's

Swam tonight. The highlight was doing six 100's with each one faster than the last. I did the first in 1:33, and worked myself down to 1:27 for the fifth, then did a 1:20 for the last. I am curious what I would do for a 100 fresh off the blocks. i would like to beat 1:10.

Westport Swim Meet 2-2-2014

I drove down to the swim meet with my friend Paul. I have known him through swimming at Cornerstone and at open water swims for many years. We got there fifteen minutes before the open warm up ended. i got to take a practice drive off the blocks. I almost immediately decided i would not attempt a flip turn on the 50. Being in a new pool, it was just too odd and unfamiliar. I felt I would muff it. The race when it came, it went to quick, it is hard for me to recap. I felt i had a good dive and swam fast, but when I came to the wall, I grapped to ruen, but there was no grab spot, so I sort of slipped and had a weak pushoff. I sawm as hard as I could, and finished second in my heat. But as it tuned out the guy who won was heat was 49 so in a different age group. When the results came out, I was 1 out of 7 in the 55-59 men with a time of 31:00. I was happy with the time. I just wanted to get in under 32. I feel that with a flip turn, I can get under 30, which would be a big accomplishment. It was fun watching some of the really fast swimmers and their flip turns. They came off the turns like olympic bobsledders. i wanted to be able to do that! The only other race I did was the 100 IM. You could swim in up to 5 events, but I wanted to be fully fresh. The 100 IM also went quick. I dove in, swam underwater halfway, came up, did the butterfly taking breaths every three strokes, hit the wall (I found the grap spot, it was low at the water line, flipped onto my back, did the butterfly, hard and steady, did a flip onto my front, stroke and flip turn into breasttroke, which went well in that I didn't muff it, but I went sort of deep, and hard to rise up to the surface vertically to get a breath. The berats stroke, went okay, and then I sawm hard on the free. I came in at 1:25:25 or so, which was way better than I had hoped. i had done 1:33 in practice and just wanted to break 1:30. Paul was also in the race -- we have a friendly competition, but he started in the water rather than diving and he had already swum three events, so he was tired. I left the meet, very excited and anxious to get back in the pool. My next meet will likely be in May in New Britain, where I hope to swim, the 50 Free, the 100 Im, and the 100 free. The events are spaced out enough that I think I can do all three reasonable well. But first, I must master the flip turn. Resuts

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