[RunningForT3]

A bit depressed after knee pain stopped me during a trail run yesterday, I decided to ignore the nice day and skip the bike ride today, and go to the pool instead. This week, I have planned my longest ever swim workout, 2000y (previous was 1800), and longest continuous swim, 1200 (previous was 1000). On my way there I decided to skip 1200 and do 1400 or 1500.<br><br>
Warmed up, then started to do lap after lap, hoping to do 30 and reach 1500y... plan was to finish in less than 35 minutes. Well... I reached 1000y in 19:58!!! My previous 1000y swim was 21:51, so it's a massive PR. I might have spent a few extra seconds, making sure I'm on the correct lap count, then resumed. Finished the 1500y, my longest distance by far, in 29:44!!!!!! Not only way faster than I hoped, but it looks like I had a negative split!<br><br>
I'm mostly happy (besides the distances) that my lap times didn't go down... they were all between 56-61 seconds, with a few faster ones in the beginning and at the end. I still remember my first Oly, when my swim took 1h01... I know 1500m is a bit longer than 1500y... like 3 minutes longer, so I see how much I progressed in 8 months (actually my progress started in December).

 

[Chris the Wheeler]

<span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span><b>You Rock!!</b></span></span>

 

[wyrillco]

<span style="font-size:x-large;"><span style="color:#800080;"><b>Dude!</b></span></span>

 

[niemsco]

Wow you smashed it! Great Job!

 

[MBannon]

Yahoo!! Great job, LOVE those breakthrough moments.

 

[rottensquirrel]

That's great. Maybe someday I will have one of those.

 

[Thor]

You should change your Username to SwimmingForT1!<br><br>
Great job, man.

 

[Tri_coach06]

Sweet, I'm glad someone had a good swim day <img alt="wink.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/wink.gif"><br><br>
CS

 

[Boyerdavea]

outstanding! If I can only improve like that!

 

[Snooze]

Fantastic work! I hope that I can someday post improvements like that.

 

[RunningForT3]

Thank you for your messages!<br>
I know it's still slow... looking at past HIM results, by 30 minutes most of the people are already out of the water. I'm hoping for 45 minutes.<br>
My problem now? It's getting to the point where I'm getting the "treadmill syndrome" in the pool... getting bored with just getting nowhere. On the other hand, if I get a bit faster, then the workouts will be shorter.

 

[SpartyGirl]

Hey-no fair,now you're faster than me<img alt="wink.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/wink.gif"> GREAT JOB!!!!!

 

[RunningForT3]

Forgot to mention... so I'm about 50% faster... 40% is due to the 2 swimming lessons I took, 10% is due to switching to tri shorts instead of fluffy trunks.

 

[kimber45]

Great job.<img alt="banana.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/banana.gif">

 

[regiolanthe]

Nice job, RFT3 -<br><br>
Don't worry about "slow" - taking into account the wet suit, I'm guessing that a 32-35 min. is well within your grasp ... And just think, you have months to improve (assuming you can overcome the treadmill factor).<br><br>
Reg.

 

[pete_72]

Nice <img alt="banana.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/banana.gif"><img alt="banana.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/banana.gif">

 

[LookiLoo]

Wow Chris, that is awesome - GREAT JOB!!!