Swimming Challenge

Was just thinking about a swim league / challenge thread … if there is any interest?

The form I was thinking of taking was based on 400m TT’s.

1) Your seed time is your average for 400m in your last IM or half

2) You do a 400m TT one per week (max – less frequent if you wish)

3) Then you calculate your difference from your base 400m time

4) For each second faster tan your base time you get a point

5) if you do another IM or half during  the league period, you rest your base time

So at Outlaw it took me 1:18 do my base time would be 8:08…

Any Takers?? 

OR alternitivly ... you base time could be reset each month to be your best time from the previous Month???

I'd be interested.... my swimming is currently at carp levels so I might end up getting negative points...but count me in.

I havent done much swimming for the pat 14months ... but I TT this am and did 7:11

I dunno, a conversation or two with an Olympic swimmer's coach, getting gloriously slaughtered on Twitter about it last night, and you pop up here as the speed-swim guru!

Would be up for this next year, nothing really doing this year I fear!

I'll happily join in. Word of caution though.... Meldy set one of these up in the spring at the end of WinterSwim. About 25 people said "sign me up" and about 5 actually took part. Hopefully people will actually do a bit this time.

I'd like to take part, but I haven't done an IM. I could work it out off some longer, slower swims which would give me a nice advantage

STIL - that's only because Meldy did nasty things to the 20 people who were quicker than her so they had to drop out

Oh I like this!

Can I include my T1 time?! 

 i thought witches sank?  

slowerthanilook wrote (see)

I'll happily join in. Word of caution though.... Meldy set one of these up in the spring at the end of WinterSwim. About 25 people said "sign me up" and about 5 actually took part. Hopefully people will actually do a bit this time.

 To be honest i for one gave up trying to do it kept taking taken off the list with x-post's. I'd be up for this but I'm not sure about the format just because for folks like me who had a bad swim at there last race we will look like we are doing well even through we just had a bad day at the office at the last race?

Still would make me look like a swim god until the next race so what the heck I'm i blathering about.

I'd like to have a go too, but also have never done an IM or half...

Maybe rather than IM swims which are very dependant on weather conditions etc, as well as ruling out myself and sarah, base it off any swim of your choosing over 1km? I'm not sure it would work well to reset it every month to your best 400m TT as I expect most people would score very close to zero.

Does the base time have to be from a long swim? Why not just use your next 400m TT as your base? Or have that as an alternative option?

Well the problem i see with using your 400m TT as a base is that after you do a few TTs it gets very difficult to beat. I know I'd struggle to pick up any points at all. At least if you're aiming to beat a slightly slower pace, you're likely to pick up say 20 points and get a bit of motivation out of it.

Good point! 

I'm up for this, but as my swimming is so bad can I be measured in days not hours.