Re: 3km

Micheal Artindale wrote: 
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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.

The pool isn't open for lap swimming on the weekend. Besides that, I don't want to swim an 8k. I don't like swimming 8k's.

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

You can assume I'm just talk. It wouldn't make any difference in your training anyway.

 > 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.

You said you had to learn to put your head in the water. If the problem wasn't psychologica, what was the problem?
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