Comments on: How I Measure Improvement: Examples from 3 Practices http://www.swimwellblog.com/archives/442 The Blog of Terry Laughlin Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:48:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Oliver Marchand http://www.swimwellblog.com/archives/442/comment-page-1#comment-1481 Oliver Marchand Tue, 11 May 2010 07:45:12 +0000 http://www.swimwellblog.com/?p=442#comment-1481 Dear Terry, thanks for this excellent blog post. We are constantly trying to improve our triathlon swimming training and now want to include quantifiable measures like SPL to our training (due to this post). Thanks, Oliver Dear Terry,

thanks for this excellent blog post. We are constantly trying to improve our triathlon swimming training and now want to include quantifiable measures like SPL to our training (due to this post).

Thanks,
Oliver

]]> By: Suzanne Atkinson http://www.swimwellblog.com/archives/442/comment-page-1#comment-1476 Suzanne Atkinson Mon, 10 May 2010 22:46:20 +0000 http://www.swimwellblog.com/?p=442#comment-1476 My perspective is a bit bubbly...inhaled a little water going so blazing fast, lol. I"ll post a link when I get them up. The are FBO (FaceBook Official), but not on my website yet. My perspective is a bit bubbly…inhaled a little water going so blazing fast, lol. I”ll post a link when I get them up. The are FBO (FaceBook Official), but not on my website yet.

]]> By: Terry Laughlin http://www.swimwellblog.com/archives/442/comment-page-1#comment-1466 Terry Laughlin Mon, 10 May 2010 19:17:56 +0000 http://www.swimwellblog.com/?p=442#comment-1466 Suzanne - If you blog on these practices I'd be really curious to see them from your perspective. An interesting complement. Suzanne – If you blog on these practices I’d be really curious to see them from your perspective. An interesting complement.

]]> By: Suzanne Atkinson http://www.swimwellblog.com/archives/442/comment-page-1#comment-1464 Suzanne Atkinson Mon, 10 May 2010 16:28:25 +0000 http://www.swimwellblog.com/?p=442#comment-1464 Terry, these were fun sets, and I'm really glad we got to swim together. I'll just add that for me, 2 things that are most outstanding about these practices were #1) I actually swam not just several lenghts of butterfly, but 300 yards of it! (you noted 400, but I think it was 300). I don't think I've ever done that before, even in age group swimming as a youngster where fly was my default competition stroke. (I was too slow for free, except as an alternate). The second, and equally impressive for me was that while I was trying to keep pace with you and Dave in the varied pace sets...I set a new personal record for 100 free of 1:27. I was shocked as the only thing I was thinking about was the speed of my recovery. Thanks for sharing your mindsets here and going into your approach in detail, i'm sure it will be helpful for a lot of open minded swimmers looking for new ideas. Terry, these were fun sets, and I’m really glad we got to swim together. I’ll just add that for me, 2 things that are most outstanding about these practices were #1) I actually swam not just several lenghts of butterfly, but 300 yards of it! (you noted 400, but I think it was 300). I don’t think I’ve ever done that before, even in age group swimming as a youngster where fly was my default competition stroke. (I was too slow for free, except as an alternate).

The second, and equally impressive for me was that while I was trying to keep pace with you and Dave in the varied pace sets…I set a new personal record for 100 free of 1:27. I was shocked as the only thing I was thinking about was the speed of my recovery.

Thanks for sharing your mindsets here and going into your approach in detail, i’m sure it will be helpful for a lot of open minded swimmers looking for new ideas.

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