Re: 3km


"Martin Smith" <beeties@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Micheal Artindale" <micheal.artindale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Martin Smith" <sleepless@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >> 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?

The one that is the soonest? Swim 200IM at a race in June.

>
> >> > 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.

So, for the next 7 days you work, no day off? And I thought only I could
come up with excuses.

Do it. Prove to me that you are not just talk.
> >>
> >> > 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.

It is not psychological. It was technique. I had to relearn how to swim.
Once I learned how, then I worked on speed.
The next year, I worked on speed.


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