Swimming Challenge

No

But if you dont manage to better your time in a month your follwing months base time will be slower anyway 

Thus you went from a 6:39 base time in August to a 6:48 in September

True... and I dont think I have been in  a pool since!

I think I might have done 6.42 the week before last, anyway  ... back to it this week!!

Slight improvement for me ... 7:33 managed 2 intervals at this 

But i noticed my big gain was my easy 400s at start and end ... where they were close to 10:00 they are now close to 8:00  

I did a 400m TT on Tuesday but it was at the end of a hard hour with the swim club, ill hold back the time for the time being as intend to set a TT time before the end of the week.

Hi WildWill,

Can I just check, is the most up to daye spreadsheet still at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/62128064/Save.xlsx and am I supposed to add the times myself? The document seems to be locked for editing when I try, sorry if I am being a dunce.

There are a couple of my posted times still not on there / wrong. Could you update with the following please?

Week 3: 7m 50sec
Week 6: Should be 7m 40sec (not letting that PB get lost!) 

Now my OW training is done for the year, should be able to play a little more

Have been making an huge effort to stretch out at the end of each stroke, as I push back with the other hand. It does feel like there is a dead spot at the end, but the coash insists it's more efficient vs windmilling.

So today's 400m was focused on extension and pushing. 7:31 vs PB of 7:29. Today felt alot easier, and I thought the whole 400m was swum 'slower'. 1st 100m still too fast, but slower than normal, so pacing is improving too.

BUT don't enter this yet. Depending on how the timing works at tomorrow's tri I may beat it!

Well done Cat. Trying to imprive technique is so frustrating and you are bang on that sometime you didnt gat fatser, just less tired.

Zombie. hangover swim for me this morning. Didn't dare do a TT

Hangover swim, yuk!. Haven't done that for a while. I'm sure when I was training for Outlaw I was swimming so early the hangover hadn't kicked in.

6:40 for me taken from an olympic tri today.. not sure that gets me any points this week. I do have a 6:14 missing from last week though Club night out is tonight after the last race of the year so i'll prob not be swimming tomorrow!

Stanners ... I'll run it for as long as ther is intrest 

B_kins ... your 6:14 is in?

Saturday's tri was a relay affair. #1 in my team did a 5min something which meant I had nothing but clear water when I swam. Was hoping for some speedy feet to hang on to. Unfortunately I seemed to tow a few people along, until they swam through me. BIFF BIFF. Great fun . Managed 7:33 wet time.

Friday's 7:31 it is then.

Sorry not last week but the week before. Week 6 is in as 6:14 but week 5 was a 6:14 as well. Now the triathlons are over its time to focus on getting sub 6 here!

September Scores on the Doors

B_Kins 47
Sarah the bookworm 41
WildWill 32
Stanners 18
Meldy 12
Happychap 2
Iron Muffin 1
IronCat5 in the Hat 0
Tired Badger 0
The Silent Assassin 0
Barlo 0
Purple 0
JvR 0
ET7 0
AvaLaf 0
Mathschick 0
Pkim 0
Schmunkee 0
SlowerThanILook 0
This is Tom's Pseudonym 0

Overall Scores (at end of september)

Happychap 361
B_Kins 127
IronCat5 in the Hat 122
Tired Badger 90
The Silent Assassin 59
WildWill 57
SlowerThanILook 51
Sarah the bookworm 41
Barlo 38
Stanners 32
Purple 30
JvR 19
Meldy 12
ET7 2
Iron Muffin 1
AvaLaf 0
Mathschick 0
Pkim 0
Schmunkee 0
This is Tom's Pseudonym 0

October Base Times

09:58 Happychap
06:14 B_Kins
07:31 IronCat5 in the Hat
06:42 Tired Badger
08:10 The Silent Assassin
07:33 WildWill
07:35 SlowerThanILook
07:40 Sarah the bookworm
07:09 Barlo
07:40 Stanners
08:04 Purple
10:05 JvR
06:42 Meldy
12:02 ET7
06:20 Iron Muffin
07:07 AvaLaf
11:38 Mathschick
10:15 Pkim
12:47 Schmunkee
08:25 This is Tom's Pseudonym

Remember the new points system starts this week .....

1pt for logging a Time in a week
2pts for every second you better your BASE TIME
15pts bonus if you match or better your BASE TIME
15pts bonus if you match or better your logged PB
5pt bonus if you get within 5secs of your BASE TIME

Top 5 improvers (in seconds based on base time) each week will get bonus of 5,4,3,2 & 1pt