Re: 3km

"Micheal Artindale" <micheal.artindale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Martin Smith" <sleepless@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:11tctit7up6mi73@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Micheal Artindale wrote:
>>
>> > We are not talking about right now, we are talking about 6 months. Who
>realy
>> > knows what will happen in 6 months.
>>
>> What is your current goal again? You have changed it so many times I
>> lost track. What is your goal?
>
>I have a few. The 2 that are closest to now would be 1) swim 200IM. 2) swim
>from a island to shore, it is between 8-10km. When I get a GPS, I will get
>the exact distance.
>
>I have a lot more

Focus, Mechael. What is your first goal, the one you are working on
now?

>> > Martin, I have a challenge. Before the end of the month, go to your
>local
>> > pool and do 8 km. Report back to us on how long it took. Also, the day
>> > after, report on how you feel.
>>
>> I can't. I wish I could, but I don't have the time.
>
>You should be able to do that in 2-3 hrs. You mean in the next week, you
>cannot find the time. Is that the lazyness in you that is coming out

I mean the pool is open from 7-12, and I work from 8-17.
>>
>> > It took me 1 year to learn crawl, and do it in 59 seconds, actually
>> about 4
>> > months, 3 times a week for a hr each practice.
>>
>> It took a year to learn crawl? What was your main problem?
>
>I never put my head in the water. I had to learn to swim with my head in the
>water, and breathing.

It doesn't take a year to learn to put your head in the water.
Breathing is a little harder, but nowhere near a year. So we're
talking about fear of water. Your problem is psychological.

>> > The next year it was honing it so that i could bring it to 45 seconds.
>>
>> Hone?... Buddha. I don't think you can use that verb in this context.
>> What you're doing is more like chisling a new face into Mount Rushmore.
>
>The jack hammers on Mount Rushmore does the same. If you are a far distance
>away, it is not noticeable. Close up, it looks horrible.
>
>>
>> > I may be in the typical prime, but I am improving every day/week/month.
>I
>> > have yet to hit any peak. I dont have a muscle problem. I have a
>> > disadvantage. I learned how to swim almost 10 years later than you.
>>
>> Like you said, Who really knows what will happen in six months?
>
>Yes, I could do 8km in 1hr.
>
>>
>>
>> > I ll believe that when I see it, or dont see it.
>>
>> You asked more questions.
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>You have the freedom to stop typing
>

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