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04-04-2007, 07:53 AM
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Hungry for more...
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Austin, TX
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Do we need a swimming challenge too?
Hey E., you busy? 
Anyone interested? (just don't ask me to organize please  )
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04-04-2007, 03:01 PM
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Outdoor Guru
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I'd be pushing for this if I was swimming right now. Probably should be.
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04-04-2007, 03:58 PM
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Ben. Just Ben.
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I need access to a pool...
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04-04-2007, 07:47 PM
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Ask and you shall receive. If we can get some people, we could do one...
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04-06-2007, 08:03 PM
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Just Plain SENIOR
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SPURSville, Texas
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I haven't been in the pool in over a week but that's in part because I was in Fresno earlier this week. What would happen in a swimming challenge???
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04-09-2007, 06:21 PM
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Closet Introvert
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Little Rock, AR
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I swim at least a few laps each time I work out..
Are we like...counting laps? I'm in.
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04-10-2007, 12:56 PM
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TdF Freak
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It would be similar to the Running and Cycling Challenges. You would set a monthly goal of yards or meters that you are going to attempt to complete. Then we're split into 2 teams, and you earn points based on the percentage of your goal that you complete.
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04-10-2007, 01:24 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Toronto
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Hey I will paticipate in this
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04-17-2007, 10:40 AM
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Closet Introvert
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Little Rock, AR
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Maybe one of our alustrious moderators will help put together a thread for goals?
I have to be honest here though..I've never set any swimming goals..so far. But I'm always up for adding some. Maybe I'll actually get better at it once I set some goals. 
Here..I'll throw out one first. My goal..100 laps in the next 30 days. |
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04-19-2007, 03:49 PM
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OH..and that's 5000m in the pool I swim in. |
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04-20-2007, 11:31 AM
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Closet Introvert
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OH..and that's 5000m in the pool I swim in. |
Opps..LOL..umm..that's ONE big pool. 500m.:p
Anyway..am I the ONLY one looking in here? Come on! Where'd all those fish go?  |
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04-20-2007, 11:32 AM
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Closet Introvert
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Location: Little Rock, AR
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I swam a MILE this morning. 800m 16 laps...come on folks..lets do a challenge here!
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04-20-2007, 11:57 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Most of you guys swimming in the states are swimming yards, correct?
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04-20-2007, 12:26 PM
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Closet Introvert
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Originally Posted by Ruslan Kedik
Most of you guys swimming in the states are swimming yards, correct?
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Believe it or not, the pools I have been in so far are all marked with meters. As you say though...to have any real relavence we tend to think..now what is that in yards or feet. Thus my reference to swimming a mile.. |
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04-23-2007, 07:47 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: Toronto
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Okay, since I am recoverying from a shoulder problem, my goal is 20,000 meters in April. For you Americans that is 21,872.27 yards...
So far within the past 11 days I have 13,500 meters. |
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04-23-2007, 08:55 AM
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Just Plain SENIOR
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Location: SPURSville, Texas
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Originally Posted by Jimbo
I swam a MILE this morning. 800m 16 laps...come on folks..lets do a challenge here!
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Huh??? Either you are JOKING or we need to talk about your math!
By the way, my pool is marked in yards. |
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04-23-2007, 09:16 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: Toronto
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I was thinking that too, isnt 1650 yards a mile?
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04-23-2007, 02:14 PM
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Just Plain SENIOR
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Originally Posted by swiminto
I was thinking that too, isnt 1650 yards a mile?
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Probably pretty close. It's 5,280 feet for sure.
1 meter = 3.28 feet so...
1 mile = 5280/3.28 = 1609.75 meters
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1 mile = 5,280/3 = 1760 yards |
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04-23-2007, 02:20 PM
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Closet Introvert
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Location: Little Rock, AR
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Okay..here's why I was confused..
Last summer I swam the mile at boy scout camp. They have an olympic pool at camp. We had to do 16 laps (down and back is a lap) to complete the entire mile.
Now..what I figured out here is..the pool at camp must be a 50 meter pool..that is you would be doing 100 meters per lap. That being the case...16 la | |
