Swim 1000 km in 2008
I set up a new goal two days ago, which is to swim a total distance of 1000 km in 2008. After having a new goal, I immediately go and sign up on the second day. The following day I, which is today, I swam 1000 metres.
Is 1000 km a long distance?
If I swim 1km everyday, I won’t make it to 1000 km in a year time. You might be thinking why I just swim 1 km today. It is a long term goal, and you can’t achieve it in one day time. It had been months I didn’t go swimming. The reason I swam 1000 metres only was to warming up my body to make it getting use to long duration swimming. It took me half an hour to finish 1000 metres. 1000 km means a heck of 500 hours time to me.
After getting use to 1km, I will increase my swimming length to 2km and then 3km until 5km.
Time
As I said I tried to walk to my destination in stead of using any other transport. I walked to swimming pool as well. It took me 20 minutes to get to the swimming pool, and another twenty minutes to come back from swimming pool. I tried to walk slower today to estimate the total time I needed to go forth and back from swimming pool including the swimming time. It took me one and a half hour.
I tried to fit the swimming schedule into my timetable, as it is quite packed. I realized that I can’t swim everyday, but I can swim most of the days in the week. I had two solutions. One is I woke up early in the morning walking to swimming pool and swim, or I can swim after work. Personally I prefer the previous one. It is because I need not to re-schedule my timetable now. Another reason is that after work, there are a lot of people in the pool, which makes me hard to swim and would waste more time to finish each lap. However, there is a disadvantage to swim in the morning. Besides the cold weather, I have limited time to swim. I don’t own the swimming pool, and it has its own opening hour. I have work in the morning as well, which means I have limited time to swim. I tried to estimate the distance I can swim in the morning, and it is 1 km. With this plan, I can’t meet my goal. Swimming in the morning also worries me, as I’m not sure if it will affect my concentration during work.
So I came up with another solution. Most of the time I can swim in the morning, but some other days which are not so scheduled, I can swim in the evening. For those evenings or weekends, I can swim more laps.
Shower
I don’t shower in swimming pool. The reason is that the water pressure of the bathroom there is not strong enough. I’m kind of clean-freak. Normally I would come back home and bath, unless I have no other choices.
Why Swimming?
I tried all kinds of sports and I found that swimming is the one that is most effective to me. Swimming also built up my stamina, which can make me handle the heavy work pressure. I can also spend time thinking in the water while swimming. The pool cools my head and I think better.
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