swim a mile

It wasn’t a continuous free water mile, but I did reach my goal of swimming 36 laps in a row with little to no breaks between laps. I cleared the goggles with water a few times and made all sorts of swimming fox paws, but I swam pretty much straight through 36 laps. About 75% freestyle and 25% breast stroke.

Emily (the masters swim instructor) had us swim a 1650 doing something like this:

11 lengths – freestyle
10 lengths – freestyle, breast stroke
9 lengths – freestyle
8 lengths- freestyle, breast stroke
7 lengths – freestyle
6 lengths- freestyle, breast stroke
5 lengths – freestyle
4 lengths- freestyle, breast stroke
3 lengths – freestyle
2 lengths- freestyle, breast stroke
1 length – freestyle

66 lengths total. Then I added on 6 more lengths to make it to 72 total. Pretty awesome little system.

There’s a sign on the wall at the pool where I swim that says 36 laps = 72 lengths = 1 mile. I’ll take a picture next time I’m there. I want to swim 36 laps in one go. I’m thinking it’ll take me less than an hour. Oh, and I can swim a combination of strokes or I wouldn’t be able to finish.