Dr. Tigerchik wrote:
per dev's request
my pool is closed today :(
I am opening the year with a goose egg too!
Here are my swim goals for the year:
100 fly sub 1:30,
400 IM sub 7,
200IM sub 3:20,
200 fly sub 3:20.
For consistency 1000km swim and I hope 8000 km bike as I am getting back to some riding and hope to ride in the alps in June or July.
1200km that i did last 3 years is just over an hour per day every day of the year. If you miss a day, you have to make up 6.6km the next day, so there is no room to slack off at all.
If you miss a week due to work travel or lack of access to pool during shut down, you need to swim 46 km the next week.....or if you have something unforseen like an accident, suddenly you have to make up all those missed days....and on each day you have to carve out an average of 65 min of swim time, which in itself is hard and repeating that x365.
Its not that 3.3 km swimming in a day is that hard...repeating it EVERY DAY or making up for missed days, that's really hard, but also worth it. It is a mini vacation every day.
Soooo.....1000km is the target.