Damn, swimming is tiring.

[notfred]

Only did 500 yards

Oh well, most important thing is that I actualyl went and did it. 500 more yards tomorrow.

 

[Orsorum]

Good... little bits at first. It gets a lot easier the more you do it. Good luck!

 

[StageLeft]

How long it take?

 

[notfred]

Dunno, wasn't timing myself. It wasn't very fast.

 

[Jzero]

<< Only did 500 yards

Oh well, most important thing is that I actualyl went and did it. 500 more yards tomorrow. >>


WEAK 500 yards is nothing
You better get cracking.
My biggest fear in all of my years of swimming was having to be the counter for the 500 freestyle. Usually someone doing the 500 (20 laps in the garden-variety 25-yard pools we swam in) is really kinda spacing out just trying to keep pace for such a long distance, so someone stands at the foot of the pool with a numbered sign telling them what lap they're on.
Except I was always scared I'd forget to flip the sign, or worse, flip the sign an extra time and have them swim 2 laps short....
Many feared the 500. I just feared holding the sign

 

[notfred]

<< WEAK 500 yards is nothing
You better get cracking.
...
Many feared the 500. I just feared holding the sign >>



Huh? so is 500 yards good or bad?

 

[Jzero]

<<

<< WEAK 500 yards is nothing
You better get cracking.
...
Many feared the 500. I just feared holding the sign >>



Huh? so is 500 yards good or bad? >>


Well, in high school swimming, it was the longest single event. Most swimmers dreaded it, although many dread the 400 IM more. Despite being a shorter event, the initial 100y butterfly leg can take a lot of you.

Anyway, I'd say 500y is a pretty solid start if you haven't swum in awhile. I guess at the peak of my "career" we did about 5000y in a 3-hour practice. Not all in one shot, mind you.
Wish I had a pool around here...

 

[Bignate603]

Ha! Jzero, I used to race the 500 and I was always scared my counter would do the same thing... I could pound it out in about 5:20 which is no great shakes but fairly respectable in high school swimming. 500 is kind of weak if you're comparing to competitive swimmer, we used to pump out 7000 yards a practice. Not only that, but we were probably doing it at more then twice the speed. It's all about the aerobic capacity and muscle effeciency.

 

[notfred]

yeah, and you were on the swim team and I haven't been in the water in a year

 

[gopunk]

notfred - i think he was just saying 500 is not too much for practice... of course in competition, it is a lot for one swimmer.

 

[Bignate603]

Jzero, you took 3 hours for 5000? We did 7000 in 2, bwahahahaha... we were psycho, we were a really a small team but ran with the biggest in our section because we had some GREAT guys.

Still, all that yardage is probably why I needed shoulder surgery, the doctor said my labrum looked like hamburger, my rotator cuff was frayed and my capsule was streched far more then it should be.

 

[SpecialEd]

ha.. my best time for the 500 is around 6 min 30 sec... i'm not even good at it either (i'm a sprinter, not endurance)

but seriously, good job! swimming is an important skill to have... the more you practice, the easier it becomes. Soon i'll find yourself doing 2000 yards a session!


edit:


<< the 200im is so much worse than the 5. >>



<-shudders... my coach made me do the 200 IM... i hated it.... the back stroke was my worst stoke.

 

[Jzero]

<< Jzero, you took 3 hours for 5000? We did 7000 in 2, bwahahahaha... we were psycho, we were a really a small team but ran with the biggest in our section because we had some GREAT guys.

Still, all that yardage is probably why I needed shoulder surgery, the doctor said my labrum looked like hamburger, my rotator cuff was frayed and my capsule was streched far more then it should be. >>



We might have done more than 5000, but not much more. The worst was we had to practice in this whackass pool that was only 20y long. It was bizarre.

notFred-- no, said 500 was a good start if you haven't swum in awhile. Nothing to shake a stick at. I haven't swum in a few years and I'd probably have to struggle through 500 myself.

 

[Bignate603]

With a 6:30, obviously not, I did that in 7th grade and was hitting low 6's with a mangled shoulder. I ended up sprinting to end the year because my shoulder wouldn't hold out for a long race and nailed a :23 in the 50 in championships and a :55 in the hundred. Not bad when you were swimming with a limp... My stroke was visibly stronger on my good arm.

 

[SpecialEd]

<< nailed a :23 in the 50 in championships and a :55 in the hundred. >>




nice. :23 its a great time for the 50. My best ever was 24.6, not top of the line... but good for the 200 relay. I did best in the 100 Breast... my best time was a 1:11.

 

[Bignate603]

1:11 in the breast is nice, I couldn't get below a 1:15, I was never a breast stroker. Oh, and the exact time on that 50 was a 23.8, we had a little guy that punched 22's regularly, he was a sleeper because nobody expected that out of him.

 

[SpecialEd]

heh.. there is always the one guy on the team that gets consistent 22s... and there is always that one relay team at sectionals that has four guys that can all get 22s. Blows me away.

 

[ElFenix]

i wish i had a pool big enough to do laps in... unfortunately its size is limited by the park/drainage ditch out back of my complex.

 

[911paramedic]

Divemaster Course (PADI SCUBA)
Watermanship and Stamina (Must score 12 out of 12 points)

400 yard swim (366 m)
15 minute tread (hands out of water for last 2 minutes)
800 yard snorkel swim (732 m)
100 yard Inert Diver Tow (91 m)

This is my second favorite class to teach, rescue diver is first of course. I still remember when I took it myself, back then it was timed as well. PADI went soft and got rid of the time requirements.

My favorite part was teaching the "buddy breathing diving equipment exchange" part. You take two students to 12ft or so, while they are buddy breathing, and then they have to exchange all their equipment with the other diver. (that means, tank, mask, fins, and weight belt, while buddy breathing all the time)

 

[wfbberzerker]

200im is worse than 500 in my opinion, because youre going all out and not really pacing yourself. btw, an average practice for our swim team can get up to 8000 yds.