On the lack of progress
On the lack of progress
The trees of the forest, becoming a swimmer, and small sample sizes
The trees of the forest, becoming a swimmer, and small sample sizes
Mar 25, 2024
I’m not swimming faster. It doesn’t seem like I’m swimming longer. I never missed a session. They’re getting harder and longer over time. My level doesn’t look like I’ve gotten any better.
Today, I’ve done my longest swim ever. it was 53 minutes, 1.9k. it only had 200m of fins to finish the session so it’s officially my longest swim. 1.7km. Yet all I can think of is my poor performance.
I think that my normal pace is around 2:20. more or less 5s. Today, we did 6x 100 at normal+ and my best time was 2:15 on the first one. The last 3 were at 2:25. that’s crazy slow, and I was supposed to be doing normal+, and at some points in there I was really pushing it.
Perhaps my normal pace was slower than I thought. Perhaps I need to recalibrate my expectations. Clearly, I’m much slower than I thought. For reference, I thought I would do these at 2min. it was a stupid pace, but a more realistic one would have been 2:10, which is 15s faster than what I did. being 15s slower than what I did is certainly disheartening.
Another way to look at it would be that it was perhaps the 1100m I did before it which weren’t easy. Maybe it just wasn’t a very good day for some reason. who knows… all I know is that I currently feel like I didn’t make any progress in swimming for the last 3 months. that’s a tough pill to swallow.
I’m not swimming faster. It doesn’t seem like I’m swimming longer. I never missed a session. They’re getting harder and longer over time. My level doesn’t look like I’ve gotten any better.
Today, I’ve done my longest swim ever. it was 53 minutes, 1.9k. it only had 200m of fins to finish the session so it’s officially my longest swim. 1.7km. Yet all I can think of is my poor performance.
I think that my normal pace is around 2:20. more or less 5s. Today, we did 6x 100 at normal+ and my best time was 2:15 on the first one. The last 3 were at 2:25. that’s crazy slow, and I was supposed to be doing normal+, and at some points in there I was really pushing it.
Perhaps my normal pace was slower than I thought. Perhaps I need to recalibrate my expectations. Clearly, I’m much slower than I thought. For reference, I thought I would do these at 2min. it was a stupid pace, but a more realistic one would have been 2:10, which is 15s faster than what I did. being 15s slower than what I did is certainly disheartening.
Another way to look at it would be that it was perhaps the 1100m I did before it which weren’t easy. Maybe it just wasn’t a very good day for some reason. who knows… all I know is that I currently feel like I didn’t make any progress in swimming for the last 3 months. that’s a tough pill to swallow.
