swimming targets for the coming year

banjobongo

targets for the coming year
Right then, here are my targets for the coming season, and seeing as the London OLympics are next, a seperate list of target for 2012. I know some of you masters swimmers will have way faster times than me, but everything is relative, and if I achieve most of these targets I will be very happy!
Any body else want to post their targets/PBs?!
Im very close on all the 2009 fly times, not so close on the 100m FC, so I will need to focus on this now for a while....
As all my training is Long Course, these times are all for Long Course pools/events.
(All PBs below set in 2008):

2009:
50m fly sub 32.50 (my PB is 32.61)
100m fly sub 1.13 (my PB is 1.13)
200m fly sub 2.50 (my PB is 2.50).
100m crawl sub 65.00 (my PB is 1.06)

2012:
Swim Times to aim for by 2012 (Long Course) :
50m fly sub 32
50m crawl sub 29
100m fly sub 1.10
100m crawl sub 63.00
200m fly sub 2.45
800m crawl sub 10.30
1500m FC - sub 21 mins.

sock puppet

Are these times you would like to achieve by the beginning of 2009 or by the end of the season? How old are you may I ask and how much do you train? Because I'd say that no matter what age you are your capable of knocking more than a fifth of a second off a 50 fly. Why not try make the qualifying times for nationals or youths depending on your age?

As for me I'd like at the end of the season to go (short course):
Sub 60 for 100m free
28 for 50 free
about 2.10 for 200 free
2.30 for 200 im
1.23 for 100 breast
1.13 for 100 back

The year after that I'd like to make the nationals. And by 2012 I'll have long since quit so probably sub 2 minutes for 100 free.

DolphinMasters

Very impressed with your PBs - or at least what you would like to achieve by end of Season 09. Have to say after watching the Olympics it made me want to train smarter in Masters - starts, streamlining, underwater kick, turns, and finishes. There is so much that can be improved on all of those that can shave time off your PBs. Also made me want to improve my body roll on my freestyle and my head position and body roll in backstroke.

I would like to break my 34. streak I have going in my 50M Butterfly. I have done 33 on relays but would like to go 33 low this year for myself. The European Masters is on in Spain in Cadiz in September 2009 so it would be great to improve my long course times.

banjobongo

hi guys
sockpuppet - re my age - Im a masters swimmer in my 40s so the only galas I will be entering will be masters galas! and yes I do hope to go faster than these targets. I train (swimming) anywhere from 3 - 4 times per week. And I will definately still be swimming in 2012 and hopefully posting faster times by then!
DolphinMasters - thanks - Im very close to all the 2009 times except the 100m FC. And Im hoping also to go to the euro masters in Spain, sp hopefully I will see you there! - I was at the Stockholm masters and it such a great experience!
I agree with you re being motivated after watching the olympics, very motivating to watch Phelos on his turns!

DolphinMasters

Banjobongo

I guess the Americans really work on their starts, turns, finishes as I did not see one of them mess up in Beijing. I was particularly facinated watching the backstroke turns and seeing them all come up just at the 14.5 metres precisely. Just brilliant. I only wish I could manage it LOL!

As for Cadiz, I wish they'd hurry up and put up more information on the site. I need to get a hold of the qualifying times so I can let my team know as we have a few newbies wanting to take part and we need to give them some times to train towards. Have you heard anything? I have been on the website but there isn't a lot on it yet. I didn't go to the Worlds this year (the idea of Perth put me off, great place but just takes so long to get there and back) but some of the team did and loved it. I think the next Worlds are in Gothenburg in 2010. That will be very cool!

sock puppet

banjobongo wrote: »

hi guys
sockpuppet - re my age - Im a masters swimmer in my 40s so the only galas I will be entering will be masters galas! and yes I do hope to go faster than these targets. I train (swimming) anywhere from 3 - 4 times per week. And I will definately still be swimming in 2012 and hopefully posting faster times by then!
DolphinMasters - thanks - Im very close to all the 2009 times except the 100m FC. And Im hoping also to go to the euro masters in Spain, sp hopefully I will see you there! - I was at the Stockholm masters and it such a great experience!
I agree with you re being motivated after watching the olympics, very motivating to watch Phelos on his turns!

Ah right I didn't notice the sub 32.50 at first. Well I'm still an age group swimmer and I haven't really considered joining a masters club when I'm older so unless I'm still swimming in college I'll probably quit by about 2010.

Yeah one thing I noticed in the olympics was the amount of races won (or lost if you like) on the finish. Phelps in the 100 fly and in the same race Crocker also lost out on the bronze medal by 1/100th of a second. Same in the mens 4x100 relay and the womens 50 free. I'm gonna try this season to improve my finish. Think I could improve a bit on my turns also.

DolphinMasters

Sock Puppet

I missed the final of the Womens 50 Free (was gutted as I was rooting for Dara Torres, the 41 year old Mom of 1 who swam Masters in the US). But I saw most of the other races and yes I agree it was surprising for some of the top swimmers to have poor touches at the finish. Still it gives them something to work on, doesn't it LOL!

Masters Swimming is great fun, much more relaxed than the age group swimming. And you could come back to it at any age if you did want to take a break from swimming for a while. I took a 13 year leave of absence from the sport - infact I never imagined I'd go back and when I did I couldn't believe how long I'd stayed away and how much I enjoyed being back in the water and pushing myself again to improve. And the galas are great craic - there is no real pressure only the type you put on yourself if you want to. And the social aspect of it is definitely better I think. Most galas have a social afterwards.

Sergio

DolphinMasters wrote: »

Sock Puppet

I missed the final of the Womens 50 Free (was gutted as I was rooting for Dara Torres, the 41 year old Mom of 1 who swam Masters in the US). But I saw most of the other races and yes I agree it was surprising for some of the top swimmers to have poor touches at the finish. Still it gives them something to work on, doesn't it LOL!

Masters Swimming is great fun, much more relaxed than the age group swimming. And you could come back to it at any age if you did want to take a break from swimming for a while. I took a 13 year leave of absence from the sport - infact I never imagined I'd go back and when I did I couldn't believe how long I'd stayed away and how much I enjoyed being back in the water and pushing myself again to improve. And the galas are great craic - there is no real pressure only the type you put on yourself if you want to. And the social aspect of it is definitely better I think. Most galas have a social afterwards.

What type of social after galas.A party?i hope there no alcohol involved:D

DolphinMasters

Eh, Hello? Don't you know most swimmers drink like sponges LOL

Well I haven't been to a lot of the after parties for the Irish Galas but ended up at a Ceilidh in Scotland after their short course nationals and it was the best laugh - all the guys wore kilts and there was much slagging over the various colour "sporans". We had a 7am flight to catch back to Cork and were still out at 1am with the scottish crew, God knows what time they got to bed.

The Irish Short Course Nationals will be held in Cork next May BH weekend and there is usually a great social with that, it's all organised by Cork Masters who do a fantastic job running the whole meet

Clseeper

Yeap masters swimming is a whole different ball game from the amateur competitive scene. I remember when I was just starting to train with one club, they were just back from a training trip in the isle of man. I was thinking; cool, we went on them, 2 hours pool time in the morning with some land work and 2 in the evening. Turns out they never made it to a swimming pool over the whole weekend. The sessions are a lot more relaxed than anything else, no 15mins early to make sure you stretch before the session etc.

The great thing about masters swimming is the mix of people. There’re of all ages and abilities. There’s the people who are kinda serious and have fast time goals to the ones who are just there for the fitness and fun. They’ll go to the gala’s for the crack, might do one swim and maybe go shopping for the rest of the weekend. Great atmosphere though.

Plus a great addition to masters swimming is the obligatory after gala drinks. More gala organisers will run some sort of official meal and drinks.

Mellor

Target, to get back into swimming.
I've been out for 6 or 7 years, since I was 15 or 16.

I'd be very happy if I ever got close to my PBs again.
they were
50m F/S 29
100 F/S 65

I often wonder, how fast i would of been if I kept it up till now. While 65 isn't great for a 15 year old, its not bad, and i'd of been in the 50s now i'd say, oh, the burden of regrets

DolphinMasters

Well you'd be surprised how fast you'd get back into the swing of things. I started back in Masters for Fitness December 05 when our Masters Club started up and then got dragged to the Limerick Masters Long Course meet in March 2006. I hadn't swam competitively in 13 years at that stage and was only back "training" about 3 months having literally remained out of the pool more or less since I gave up. I did a 1.12 long course. I was stunned (I had been expecting to be dragged up from the bottom of the pool at about the 2 minute mark!).

Anyway since then I have gotten my time down to 1.07 (Short and long course, funny both are at the same level LOL!). I got my Fly time and back times down faster than my freestyle (I have yet to get back to a 29, stuck on the 30). But it gives me some motivation at least:)

Mellor

DolphinMasters wrote: »

Anyway since then I have gotten my time down to 1.07 (Short and long course, funny both are at the same level LOL!)

Work on your turns

DolphinMasters

Yeah I know. I definitely glide in when I should move at speed in and out of the turns. It really is practice. I've gotten lazy LOL!:)