is ANYBODY counting....????

"soarfree2002 creality" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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dear swimmers :

have been doing laps for 20 years....

have tried to keep trainng and workout shedules.....

within last year have focused on racking up MILES.....

anyone INTO that....??????

trying to crack 250 this year....

365 in 2004......

I keep track of my yardage, but from that I was able to calculate the number of mile. I came
up with 390 miles last year, and I am on track to exceed that this year.

If I calculated this correctly, an estimate for me is 1,300 miles in a year +/- a 100.

Marianne.

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dear swimmers :

have been doing laps for 20 years....

have tried to keep trainng and workout shedules.....

within last year have focused on racking up MILES.....

anyone INTO that....??????

trying to crack 250 this year....

365 in 2004......

cheers y'all... keep on strokin'

lew peterla nyc, ny, usa

If you do that, you may be interested in some of the USMS fitness events:
usms.orgfitnessOpen ↗ where you not only keep track of your mileage, but you get to plot it
along a map, as if you were swimming along florida keys, or some other pictoresque location.

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dear swimmers :

have been doing laps for 20 years....

have tried to keep trainng and workout shedules.....

within last year have focused on racking up MILES.....

anyone INTO that....??????

trying to crack 250 this year....

365 in 2004......

cheers y'all... keep on strokin'

lew peterla nyc, ny, usa

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dear swimmers :

have been doing laps for 20 years....

have tried to keep trainng and workout shedules.....

within last year have focused on racking up MILES.....

anyone INTO that....??????

trying to crack 250 this year....

365 in 2004......

cheers y'all... keep on strokin'

lew peterla nyc, ny, usa

I swim 10-12 miles a week on average, mixing distance and sprint training. So that's about 500-600
miles a year. I think maybe i should keep a log for 2004, just to be accurate.

Hugo Zhang

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If I calculated this correctly, an estimate for me is 1,300 miles in a year

As they say in tennis, "Game, Set, and Match!"

Eric

thanks for feedbacks..... i too was impressed with the 1300 hundred miles as a yearly TOTAL......
how many hours in the pool was that????? cheers, lew

Has anybody been in for a 50,000 mile check-up? (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

hopefully that wouldn't involve an oil change. tears would flow when inserting the dipstick.

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Has anybody been in for a 50,000 mile check-up? (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

Estimates are about 658 hours (+-) but this is just calculated by an average of what I did each week
from memory, though I'm quite consistent in my habits. I love the pool--it keeps me young. Sometimes
I dream I have discovered new lap pools around here and I'm as exhilarated as I'd imagine most
people would be if they found a bunch of money scattered in unexpected places.

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thanks for feedbacks..... i too was impressed with the 1300 hundred miles as a yearly TOTAL......
how many hours in the pool was that????? cheers, lew

is DAKITTY involved in any of these MASTERS swims.....???? was curious about OPEN WATER
events....... actualy have a YEARLY swim around MANHATTAN......somewhat of a SWIMMING marathon
thing......

thought it would take 3-4 years to get up to 1000 miles.......how long did it take SWIM**GIRAFFE to
get there....????? and WHAT was the progression????? (( how much increase year to year.....????? ))

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I am stuck in Indiana and my town needs more pools than just Purdue because Purdue closes too often.
For example, for the next 3 weeks it is only open Monday-Friday 11:30-2PM....rotten if you have
other things you need to do during the day. So, today, as on all Saturdays, I was stuck at the Y as
I will be for the next 3 straight weeks during Mon-Friday as well. The water must have been at least
87-88 degrees. I don't know how I survived 8000 yds, but I did, and then spent the next few hours
rehydrating. So, when I dream of finding good pools, it truly is exhilerating!

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pools in NYC few and far between...

in SUMMER have access to 50 meters.....

THAT is swimming heaven......

where is swimgiraffe swimming...state???

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MSEagan said:

If I calculated this correctly, an estimate for me is 1,300 miles in a year +/- a 100.

Marianne.

When I was in my early 40's in Oz, I was doing about 1.5 million meters per year, which is about
1000 x 1500. That was hard training. 1,300 miles per year is quite an accomplishment, even if it is
just lap swimming.

martin

I swim about 3000m every morning in the pool, and 2-3 times a week I do a 2nd workout in the
afternoon. that would be about 9 workouts a week x 3000m = 27 kilometers a week x 52... that would
add up to some 1400 kilometers in a year.

This is my 5th month of swimming.

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is DAKITTY involved in any of these MASTERS swims.....???? was curious about OPEN WATER
events....... actualy have a YEARLY swim around MANHATTAN......somewhat of a SWIMMING marathon
thing......

thought it would take 3-4 years to get up to 1000 miles.......how long did it take SWIM**GIRAFFE
to get there....????? and WHAT was the progression????? (( how much increase year to
year.....????? ))

Thanks. Yes, it is just lap swimming, but I do a lot of other things too....running when my back
allows, elliptical trainer, biking, and some weights. Oh yea, and when it is not freezing
outside...lots of dog walking.

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MSEagan said:

If I calculated this correctly, an estimate for me is 1,300 miles in a

year

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+/- a 100.

Marianne.

When I was in my early 40's in Oz, I was doing about 1.5 million meters

per

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year, which is about 1000 x 1500. That was hard training. 1,300 miles per

year

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is quite an accomplishment, even if it is just lap swimming.

martin

Purdue's pool is wonderful....a 50 meter 8 lane pool plus a 25 y 6 lane diving well with 10 meter
platform (as well as lower ones). But that is the ONLY decent pool. There are some local high school
pools but they are not typically open to the public (I know the coaches, and if there is room and
Purdue is closed and if the coach is there I can get in--lots of "If"s)....but other than that, the
choices are dismal...HOT Ys and a few health clubs that are useless (1 is unguarded and off by
itself and is under a removable dome and the other is more like a bathtub). I am pushing for a
decent recreation center to be built here with a decent pool...one that does not close at every
semester break, is not 88 degrees, and has a lifeguard. Is this too much? Instead, fast food places
and fine dining and movie theaters keep going up. Today I heard that Indiana now ranks # 1 in the
nation for those in the mildly obese or worse range. I am not surprised based on the ideas of
"leisure activities" that most people here seem to support...at least in this section of Indiana.
Bloomington Indiana has a wonderful YMCA.

Marianne

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INDIANA seems to have some INTENSE focus on competitive swimming.....

UNIVERSITY OF INDIANA was always in the TOP echelons on a NATIONAL level.....

like OKLAHOMA in football.... or U.C.L.A. or KENTUCKY in baskeball.....

curious how ELABORATE and technologically advanced HIGH END pools really ARE......????

what is SET**UP at PURDUE????? lanes ** lengths ** features, ETC.

have this dream of pools being MORE high tech.....interactive>>>>> in water music..... interactive
coaching mechanism**muses......LAP counters..... LED lap timers...... progressive challenge
courses...... some kind of computer interface that keeps your workout records and gives feedback
on learning curves..... if we can spend 100s of BILLIONS on weapons .... a few on FITNESS might be
warrantted.....

happy sunday Y'all.. lew