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Author: cmolnar

  • 67 Days Until Event – 2500 Today

    I chose to do an on-the-fly 2500M today. I had limited time, so started out with longer breaststroke and freestyle sets and ended up with shorter 50s of both. It was not a day that I would break any time records. I will try to fit in an 800m freestyle as a part of my tomorrow workout.

    8/4/2026 Workout Summary

    MetricValue
    Total Distance2,500 m
    Total Swim Time42:17
    Total Rest Time8:19
    Total Session Time50:36
    Workout Sets15
    Average Swim Pace1:41.5 /100 m

    Workout Structure

    SetStrokeDistanceTimePace /100 mRest
    1Freestyle100 m1:23.71:23.70:21
    2Mixed (200 BR + 200 FR)400 m6:46.81:41.71:02
    3Breaststroke100 m1:48.61:48.60:26
    4Freestyle200 m3:17.21:38.60:21
    5Breaststroke100 m1:47.61:47.60:24
    6Mixed300 m5:14.71:44.90:32
    7Mixed100 m1:39.71:39.70:24
    8Mixed200 m3:21.21:40.60:28
    9Mixed (4×50)200 m3:19.31:39.60:57
    10Freestyle100 m1:33.81:33.80:18
    11Breaststroke50 m0:55.51:51.00:20
    12Freestyle100 m1:36.81:36.80:18
    13Breaststroke150 m2:39.21:46.11:06
    14Mixed (3×100)300 m5:12.71:44.21:12
    15Mixed (2×50)100 m1:40.61:40.6—

    Benchmark Table

    EventCurrent Best TrainingToday’s Best Relevant Swim2025 Bronze2025 4th
    1500 m Freestyle25:46.0 (8/2)—25:04.7525:06.88
    800 m Freestyle14:08.0 (8/2)—12:32.8512:56.76
    200 m Breaststroke3:41.3 (8/3)≈3:37.2 pace (from the 150 m in 2:39.2)3:39.924:00.27
    100 m Breaststroke1:44.0 (7/26)1:47.61:32.971:37.95

    Gap to Medal Table

    EventGap to BronzeGap to 4th
    1500 m Freestyle41.3 sec39.1 sec
    800 m Freestyle1:35.21:11.2
    200 m BreaststrokeCurrent best: 1.4 sec behind Bronze • 18.9 sec ahead of 4th
    100 m Breaststroke11.0 sec6.1 sec

    AI Evaluation

    This wasn’t designed as a race-test day, but there are several encouraging points:

    • Your 100 m breaststroke repeats (1:48.6 and 1:47.6) were close to your best training speed despite being embedded in a larger interval workout.
    • The 150 m breaststroke in 2:39.2 corresponds to a pace of about 1:46.1/100 m. While it’s not directly comparable to a 200 m race, it’s consistent with the strong breaststroke performances you’ve shown over the past week.
    • Your freestyle remained controlled throughout the session, with late-workout 100 m repeats of 1:33.8 and 1:36.8, indicating good speed retention under fatigue.

    Road to Huntsman

    Your trend over the past several workouts continues to be strongest in the 200 m breaststroke:

    • 7/19: 3:59.5
    • 7/30: 3:45.6
    • 8/3: 3:41.3 (best)
    • 8/4: Maintained race-quality breaststroke pace during interval work rather than regressing.

    The consistency of your breaststroke pace across consecutive workouts suggests that the improvement isn’t just a single exceptional swim—it’s becoming repeatable. That’s an encouraging sign as you continue building toward the Huntsman World Senior Games.

  • 68 Days Until Event – Small Change to Tracking

    I have made a small change to my tracking. My Garmin watch keeps missing turns and has actually become a bit of a distraction in my swim workouts. That’s not to detract from Garmin, but more a personal preference. I am switching to the FORM swim goggles as they have a heads-up display that tracks distance and pace. They really record the same information as the Garmin watch does but in a less obtrusive manner. Today’s swim is the first one with the new goggles.

    8/3/2026 Workout Summary

    MetricValue
    Total Distance2,500 m
    Total Swim Time50:32
    Total Rest Time7:03
    Total Session Time57:35
    Swim Sets14
    Average Swim Pace2:01 /100 m
    Average HR126 bpm
    Maximum HR153 bpm
    Average SWOLF42

    Workout Structure

    SetStrokeDistanceTimePace /100 mRest
    1Freestyle200 m2:59.41:300:26.0
    2Breaststroke200 m3:41.31:510:41.5
    3Freestyle200 m3:09.11:350:27.9
    4Breaststroke200 m3:42.91:510:29.2
    5Freestyle200 m3:12.21:360:42.2
    6Breaststroke200 m3:44.41:520:28.2
    7Freestyle200 m3:14.31:370:29.5
    8Breaststroke200 m3:46.51:530:47.1
    9Freestyle200 m3:15.91:380:35.7
    10Breaststroke200 m3:52.31:560:29.1
    11Mixed100 m1:42.81:430:29.7
    12Mixed200 m3:33.11:460:42.0
    13Freestyle100 m1:38.91:390:14.7
    14Breaststroke100 m1:56.71:57—

    Initial observations

    • Freestyle remained remarkably consistent despite the repeated alternation with breaststroke:
      • 200 m repeats progressed from 1:30/100 (opening set) to 1:38/100 by the fifth repeat.
    • Breaststroke also showed good consistency:
      • 200 m repeats ranged from 3:41.3 to 3:52.3, a spread of only 11 seconds across five repetitions.
    • The best 200 m breaststroke (3:41.3) is now the fastest dedicated 200 m breaststroke interval in the recent training block, improving on the 3:45.6 benchmark from 7/30 by about 4.3 seconds.

    The workout design also provides a good measure of fatigue resistance. Rather than swimming a single fast breaststroke repeat, I repeatedly returned to the event after freestyle work and maintained a relatively narrow range of performances. That’s encouraging for my 200 m breaststroke preparation because it suggests I am sustaining race-relevant pace even as fatigue accumulates.

    With the new 8/3/2026 workout, the benchmark table is now:

    EventToday’s Time (8/3)Previous Best2025 Bronze2025 4th
    1500 m Freestyle—25:46.0 (8/2)25:04.7525:06.88
    800 m Freestyle—14:08.0 (8/2)12:32.8512:56.76
    200 m Breaststroke3:41.3 ⭐3:45.6 (7/30)3:39.924:00.27
    100 m Breaststroke1:56.71:44.0 (7/26)1:32.971:37.95

    Biggest update

    Today’s 200 m breaststroke is the standout.

    Time
    Previous Best3:45.6
    New Best (8/3)3:41.3
    Improvement4.3 seconds

    That moves me to:

    • 1.4 seconds behind the 2025 bronze medal time
    • 19.0 seconds ahead of the 2025 fourth-place time

    Current Gap to the Medal Stand

    EventGap to BronzeGap to 4th
    1500 m Freestyle41.3 sec39.1 sec
    800 m Freestyle1:35.21:11.2
    200 m Breaststroke1.38 sec−18.97 sec (ahead of 4th)
    100 m Breaststroke11.03 sec6.05 sec

    Road to Huntsman

    The progression of my 200 m breaststroke over the last two weeks has been great:

    DateTime
    7/193:59.5
    7/303:45.6
    8/33:41.3 ⭐

    That’s an 18.2-second improvement in about two weeks of training.

    What’s even more encouraging is how I achieved it. Today’s 3:41.3 wasn’t a standalone race effort—it was the first of five consecutive 200 m breaststroke repeats, alternating with 200 m freestyle. Maintaining breaststroke times between 3:41 and 3:52 across the set suggests that race-specific endurance is improving alongside my speed. That consistency is exactly what I should be seeing with the Huntsman Games about two months away.

    I am going to try to get a new critical swim speed and a new benchmark for the breaststroke 100m and 200m sometime this next week.

    (NOTE: Some of the evaluations were done using the assistance of ChatGPT, not to adjust the results but rather to compare and interpret).

  • 68 Days Until Event – All in One+

    68 Days Until Event – All in One+

    I call this the all in one plus (+) workout because I swam all my events in one workout, one after the other, and then added additional distance on the end to get the 5K that I wanted to swim today. In reality I swam over 5K because my watch missed 225 meters in one of my drills, and then it missed another 26 meters along the way as well so I had to swim extra to make up for that. Rows 6 and 12 in my workout structure table below. I totally drives me nuts when the watch does that.

    8/2/2026 Workout Summary

    MetricValue
    Total Distance5,000 m
    Total Swim Time1:55:44
    Total Rest Time19:28.9
    Total Session Time2:15:13
    Swim Sets23 (plus 1 drill interval)
    Average Swim Pace1:48 /100 m
    Average HR121 bpm
    Maximum HR171 bpm
    Average SWOLF39

    Workout Structure

    SetStrokeDistanceTimePace /100 mRest
    1Freestyle200 m3:10.51:350:29
    2Freestyle1,500 m25:461:431:00
    3Breaststroke200 m3:52.91:560:41
    4Breaststroke100 m1:53.81:540:47
    5Freestyle800 m14:081:461:20
    6Mixed175 m3:46.72:101:15
    7Mixed125 m2:15.41:481:02
    8Mixed100 m1:47.11:470:36
    9Mixed200 m3:43.01:510:45
    10Mixed100 m1:49.91:500:34
    11Mixed150 m2:46.51:510:29
    12Drill25 m6:41.2—1:19
    13Freestyle25 m0:23.61:351:18
    14Mixed100 m1:51.91:522:04
    15Mixed100 m1:44.11:440:55
    16Mixed200 m3:43.01:512:25
    17Mixed100 m1:49.61:500:27
    18Mixed300 m5:37.41:520:22
    19Mixed100 m1:53.61:540:28
    20Mixed100 m1:49.51:500:23
    21Freestyle100 m1:44.51:440:13
    22Breaststroke100 m2:03.02:030:29
    23Mixed100 m1:54.21:540:07

    I asked AI to track today’s results as it is the start of a new month compared with the last time I swam a similar set, and then compare the times to the 2025 Huntsman Senior World Games and this is what I was given.

    This workout stands out because the four primary race-event swims were completed early, before the mixed technique work:

    EventTimePrevious Benchmark
    1500 m Freestyle25:4626:09 (7/19 race simulation)
    800 m Freestyle14:0814:29 (7/19)
    200 m Breaststroke3:52.93:59.5 (7/19)
    100 m Breaststroke1:53.8Best interval 1:44.0 (7/26)

    Here’s the comparison using your 8/2/2026 race-specific workout, your previous best training performance, and the 2025 Huntsman World Senior Games results (Men 60–64).

    Event8/2/2026Previous Best2025 Bronze2025 4th
    1500 m Freestyle25:46.026:09.4 (7/19)25:04.7525:06.88
    800 m Freestyle14:08.014:29.1 (7/19)12:32.8512:56.76
    200 m Breaststroke3:52.93:45.6 (7/30)3:39.924:00.27
    100 m Breaststroke1:53.81:44.0 (7/26)1:32.971:37.95

    I think the breaststroke and 800m freestyle times are being affected in this workout by the earlier 1500m freestyle. I am going to have to try and gets some actual race condition times to see where I am in each of the events over the next few weeks.

  • 69 Days until Event – It’s now August

    I took another rest day today as I could still feel a little muscle fatigue and I really need to have a productive August. On the first of the month I always try to setup my monthly challenges on Garmin Connect and also Swim.com (US Masters Swimming has their challenges on there as well). So, what did I select?

    Garmin Connect Challenges:

    Screen capture of the August Garmin Connect Challenges.

    And then we can’t forget about the Swim.Com challenges:

    May not get all of them done, but let’s see what the month brings. I need my distance and speed peak near the end of August in order for me to get through the first few weeks of September before I start to taper a bit.

    Tomorrow is back into the pool.

  • 70 Days Until Event – Month Ending

    I chose a rest day today, and I will do a second one tomorrow. Rest days are important as they give your muscles a chance to heal and recover. I was feeling a little strained in my last two swims and I think I may have been ready for a rest. Given all the health issues I have had during July 2026 I have done pretty well with my workouts and swimming. The print is really small on this calendar, but this is my activity for the month:

    Summary:

    Swims = Activities: 18 Distance: 47.75 km Time: 17:30:38 Calories: 9,658
    Running = Activities: 5 Distance: 31.57 km Time: 3:34:47 Calories: 2,645
    Walking = Activities: 21 Distance: 41.39 km Time: 8:48:52 Calories: 3,404

    TOTAL = Activities: 44 Distance: 120.71 km Time: 29:54:16 Calories: 15,707

    Garmin also sends me a monthly report on my training and health stats.

    And that is a wrap for the month of July. Moving onto August and hopefully going to decrease my times and increase my endurance again.

  • 71 Days Until Event – Let’s Wrap Up July

    71 Days Until Event – Let’s Wrap Up July

    I really didn’t feel like it today, it’s never a good idea to be a little too busy at work, not feeling strong, and just in general feeling blaaahhh. But, I made it to the pool anyway. Got 2100 meters in and I think that is going to wrap up my swimming for July. I am going to take a rest day or two and we will get back to it either on Sunday or Monday to start my July training plans. But the nice part is, I did make a few goals, but more about that tomorrow on my monthly wrap-up.

    Summary of Today’s Swim

    MetricValue
    Total Distance2,000 m
    Total Swim Time35:06.4
    Total Rest Time (Recorded)7:23.5
    Unplanned Interruption4:20.0
    Planned Rest Time3:03.5
    Total Session Time42:29.9
    Swim Sets12
    Average Swim Pace1:45 /100 m
    Average HR141 bpm
    Maximum HR166 bpm
    Average SWOLF38

    Set Breakdown

    SetStrokeDistanceTimePace /100 mRest
    1Freestyle400 m6:30.91:380:26.2
    2Breaststroke50 m0:51.71:430:14.0
    3Breaststroke100 m1:54.01:540:21.1
    4Freestyle50 m0:45.41:310:18.8
    5Freestyle100 m1:36.61:370:22.6
    6Breaststroke150 m2:48.31:520:32.1
    7Freestyle150 m2:24.01:360:23.7
    8Mixed50 m0:49.21:384:20.0*
    9Breaststroke200 m3:45.61:530:24.1
    10Mixed550 m9:41.21:460:40.7
    11Freestyle200 m3:20.81:400:11.6
    12Mixed100 m1:48.11:480:08.6

    Observations from AI Swim Evaluation

    • Your 400 m freestyle in 6:30 (1:38/100 m) is another strong aerobic benchmark.
    • The 200 m breaststroke (3:45.6) remains in the range you’ve been consistently demonstrating since your pacemaker adjustments and continues to support your current projection for the 200 m breaststroke event.
    • The 550 m mixed set served as the primary endurance component of the workout.

    That’s it for tonight.

  • 71 Days to Event – Speed Work Today

    71 Days to Event – Speed Work Today

    I really dislike working on speed. For some reason when I swim short sets I always feel slow. My favorite events are the long ones, so short ones don’t really excite me. I also had an awesome workout planned on my Garmin, but for some reason my watch decided not to cooperate and thus I was winging it as I went. I managed to do 2100 meters today.

    Workout Summary

    MetricValue
    Total Distance2,100 m
    Total Swim Time36:50
    Total Rest Time11:06
    Total Session Time47:56
    Swim Sets25
    Average Swim Pace1:45 /100 m
    Average HR111 bpm
    Maximum HR133 bpm
    Average SWOLF37

    Workout Structure

    SetStrokeDistanceTimePace /100 mRest
    1Freestyle200 m3:30.81:450:39.2
    2Breaststroke50 m0:53.31:470:19.1
    3Breaststroke50 m0:57.91:560:55.4
    4Breaststroke50 m0:54.21:480:15.3
    5Breaststroke50 m0:54.51:490:20.4
    6Breaststroke50 m0:54.41:490:14.8
    7Breaststroke50 m0:54.01:480:20.2
    8Breaststroke50 m0:53.41:470:19.8
    9Breaststroke50 m0:55.41:510:16.8
    10Breaststroke50 m0:55.11:500:15.2
    11Breaststroke50 m0:57.01:540:58.5
    12Freestyle100 m1:31.71:320:15.5
    13Breaststroke100 m1:52.21:520:21.0
    14Freestyle100 m1:32.21:320:16.4
    15Breaststroke100 m1:54.01:540:16.6
    16Freestyle100 m1:35.61:360:15.4
    17Breaststroke100 m1:50.11:500:20.7
    18Freestyle100 m1:36.11:360:20.2
    19Breaststroke100 m1:53.21:530:18.7
    20Freestyle150 m2:25.61:370:21.5
    21Breaststroke100 m1:53.21:530:19.6
    22Freestyle150 m2:30.71:400:19.3
    23Breaststroke100 m1:55.01:550:54.2
    24Mixed50 m0:48.01:360:16.8
    25Mixed50 m0:51.51:43—

    Initial observations

    • This was a quality interval workout, alternating freestyle and breaststroke after a series of 50 m breaststroke repeats.
    • Freestyle speed remained excellent, with consecutive 100 m repeats at 1:32–1:36 pace and 150 m repeats at 1:37–1:40 pace.
    • Breaststroke 100 m repeats were tightly grouped between 1:50 and 1:55, indicating good pacing consistency despite the preceding 50 m repeat set.
    • The total rest time of 11:06 (about 23% of the session) makes this a relatively high-quality interval workout rather than an endurance session.

    Next Workout

    I think my next workout will be an endurance workout, or maybe just a few 10 minute swims. I have to see how I feel tomorrow. I would like to have a rest day before starting my next month.

  • 72 Days Until Event – Long Freestyle Today

    72 Days Until Event – Long Freestyle Today

    After yesterdays long distance workout I decided on a shorter 2100 meter workout for today. The goal was to swim a 1500 meter to get a comparison time on the freestyle side of things since I have been concentrating on breaststroke for the past few swims. I did end up doing a 1750 meter freestyle set and then a few smaller mixed sets to finish off my workout.

    I was very happy with my results. While I still need to shave some time off before October, I exceeded some PR’s today which is putting me in the right direction.

    7/27/2026 Workout Summary

    MetricValue
    Total Distance2,100 m
    Total Swim Time37:55
    Total Rest Time1:59
    Total Session Time39:54
    Swim Sets3
    Average Swim Pace1:43 /100 m
    Average HR116 bpm
    Maximum HR141 bpm
    Average SWOLF37

    I asked ChatGPT to evaluate today’s swim vs where I need to be to place in the 2026 Huntsman World Senior Games, and much as I hate to post things from AI it does a good job of evaluating my swims.

    SetStrokeDistanceTimePace /100 mRest
    1Freestyle1,750 m29:27.01:41.00:54.6
    2Mixed250 m4:39.71:51.90:54.4
    3Mixed100 m1:48.61:48.60:10.1

    ChatGPT Notes:

    • The 1,750 m continuous freestyle is now your strongest sustained freestyle endurance benchmark and exceeds your target 1,500 m race distance.
    • The 250 m mixed and 100 m mixed sets appear to have been technique-oriented rather than race-pace efforts, so I have not used them to update your breaststroke projections.

    Comparison with Your Previous Best

    EventPrevious BestToday’s ProjectionImprovement
    800 m Freestyle14:29.113:27.81:01.3 faster
    1500 m Freestyle26:09.425:14.654.8 seconds faster

    1500 m Freestyle Comparison

    Place2025 TimeDifference
    🥇 Gold23:34.66+1:39.9
    🥈 Silver23:39.43+1:35.2
    🥉 Bronze25:04.75+9.9
    4th25:06.88+7.7
    Your Projection25:14.6—

    1500m Pace Comparison

    PlacePace (/100 m)Your Pace
    Gold1:34.31
    Silver1:34.63
    Bronze1:40.32
    4th1:40.46
    You1:40.97

    800 m Freestyle Comparison

    Place2025 TimeDifference
    🥇 Gold12:00.10+1:27.7
    🥈 Silver12:16.56+1:11.2
    🥉 Bronze12:32.85+54.9
    4th12:56.76+31.0
    Your Projection13:27.8—

    800m Pace Comparison

    PlacePace (/100 m)Your Pace
    Gold1:30.01
    Silver1:32.07
    Bronze1:34.11
    4th1:37.10
    You1:40.97

    I think tomorrow (if I am able to get to pool, as I have a doctor appointment and may need to miss a workout), I am going to work on my breaststroke again. That has always been my strongest stroke, if I alternate freestyle and breaststroke in a ladder format, increase distance 50M every 2 sets, it looks something like this:

    Breaststroke200
    Freestyle50
    Breaststroke150
    Freestyle100
    Breaststroke100
    Freestyle150
    Breaststroke50
    Freestyle200
    TOTAL For master set1000M

    I call these my ladder workouts. I usually do 2 or 3 of them and try to keep to a 20 second rest between sets. It’s a good time standard for both strokes. This also allows me to work on my turns, which are probably the biggest issues with my freestyle times. My breaststroke turns aren’t awful but I am still swimming with the old breaststroke rules in place. Things have changed in 40 years.

    I think that’s it for today. We will see what tomorrow brings. If I don’t get to the pool tomorrow I will do this workout on Wednesday. No major deal, I am hitting my goals this month.

  • Little Something Extra From The Garden

    Little Something Extra From The Garden

    I mentioned yesterday that our lettuce and chard in the hydroponics had run it’s course. This evening I planted the next batch in their little sponges and I hope these will actually do something. We have not been having a lot of good luck getting seeds started this year. First, the ones I tried starting in the basement near the end of winter got to cold. I forgot to use the warming mats and they just did not germinate. Then we tried starting some additional ones out in the actual hydroponic tubes themselves and I think the seeds got to wet and rotted.

    So, we now have 24 Swiss Chard seeds in their damp sponges, and 24 Lettuce seeds in their little sponges. I am going to keep them a little less moist than we have been doing previously. I have a feeling these sponges hold more moisture and the seeds may be rotting. I talked with a few people in a group I am part of and they reminded me that when seeds are in the soil they dry out, get wet, dry out, get wet, and so on. The hydroponic material holds much more water and may not allow that dry out process.

    Grow little ones! I want salad one of these days from a non-grocery store source.

  • 73 Days Until Event – Long Workout Today 5650m

    73 Days Until Event – Long Workout Today 5650m

    Happy Sunday everyone! Yeh, I took a day off from the gym yesterday hoping that it would correct a few issues on my Garmin Health tracking. It didn’t. I am more sure than ever that the Garmin can’t figure out what to do with my heart rate now that I have a pacemaker. It seems to think normal heart rates are stress, and that my HRV is completely off base. It also thinks my “body battery” is ridiculously low and that I am over training. It lies.

    Anyway, I started the day off with what I had hoped would be a 1 mile walk with the dogs. It was already over 80 degrees when I took them out and neither of them felt like walking. This means we did the slow, sniff every bush, walk around the park until Climber heard someone use a nail gun and then she was ready to go home. She would have run all the way back had she not been attached to me and Res. Res wasn’t having much part of moving fast either, so 2 against one, Res and I were victorious.

    Got them back to the house, had breakfast, and then Jesse went out to get his morning steps in while I got ready to go to the pool and get my workout in. I decided that today was VASA fitness on Quincy Ave in Aurora. I normally go to the one up on Colfax but their pool has been a little busy on Sunday’s with people doing triathlon training, and for some reason they will absolutely not share a lane. I don’t get it but most of us who swim for competition are used to sharing lanes. Those who do triathlons do not even acknowledge you when you want to share a lane. But, I digress.

    Today’s Workout:

    MetricValue
    Total Distance5,650 m
    Total Swim Time2:10:36
    Total Rest Time28:25
    Total Session Time (Swim + Rest)2:39:01
    Swim Sets39
    Average Swim Pace1:48 /100 m
    Average HR107 bpm
    Maximum HR175 bpm
    Average SWOLF40

    And my sets:

    SetStrokeDistanceTimePace/100Avg HRMax HR
    1Freestyle1502:15.61:3095104
    2Breaststroke2504:33.41:49107121
    3Freestyle1502:25.41:37150159
    4Breaststroke1001:44.01:44159175
    5Freestyle3505:51.81:41145159
    6Freestyle2003:22.41:41133150
    7Breaststroke2504:44.31:54134149
    8Freestyle1502:26.51:38112127
    9Breaststroke1001:50.61:51110123
    10Freestyle1001:39.51:40127143
    11Mixed2003:37.01:48116142
    12Mixed2504:27.31:47112128
    13Breaststroke2504:52.31:57121142
    14Freestyle1502:31.41:4195103
    15Breaststroke1001:57.51:5895100
    16Mixed2504:32.51:49108125
    17Mixed2504:40.41:5296110
    18Freestyle1502:36.21:44118124
    19Breaststroke2004:05.02:0394107
    20Freestyle1502:37.41:458794
    21Breaststroke1002:00.72:0191104
    22Mixed1001:50.81:51101115
    23Freestyle1502:38.01:4598119
    24Breaststroke1001:58.31:588894
    25Freestyle1001:42.81:4393101
    26Breaststroke1002:00.52:008894
    27Freestyle1001:43.61:4490101
    28Breaststroke1002:02.32:0289102
    29Freestyle500:47.61:357894
    30Freestyle1001:44.81:457986
    31Breaststroke1002:00.52:0087102
    32Mixed1502:57.51:589099
    33Mixed1001:48.11:487992
    34Freestyle500:51.21:42101111
    35Mixed1001:46.11:468089
    36Mixed1001:52.31:52107115
    37Mixed1001:51.51:51102112
    38Mixed1001:55.81:56107125
    39Freestyle1001:47.61:48106120

    I asked ChatGPT to do some tracking and some comparisons to what I can expect to place based on the last year place 1-4 times at the senior games. It looks like currently the 200 meter breaststroke event will be the one that I have the best chance in a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place finish. From today’s swim I had 4 breaststroke sets that were 200m or over, and the times where:

    DistanceTimePace (/100 m)Equivalent 200 m
    250 m4:33.41:49.43:38.7
    250 m4:44.31:53.73:47.4
    250 m4:52.31:56.93:53.8
    200 m4:05.02:02.54:05.0

    Comparing them with the Huntsman 2025 results, it looks like I could place second, which would be excellent.

    Place2025 TimeDifference vs. Your Best Sustained Pace
    🥇 Gold3:01.02+37.7 sec
    🥈 Silver3:38.74Essentially equal (within about 0.1 sec)
    🥉 Bronze3:39.921.2 sec faster
    4th4:00.2721.6 sec faster
    Your best sustained pace (250 m)≈3:38.7 (projected 200 m)—

    For the other events, yeh… I have 70 some days to see some improvement. I need to swim an 800 and a 1500 freestyle in the next week or so when I am fresh to re-calculate those times. And my 100m breaststroke is not as good. Currently we are:

    Place2025 TimeDifference from Your Best
    🥇 Gold1:19.22+24.78 sec
    🥈 Silver1:28.57+15.43 sec
    🥉 Bronze1:32.97+11.03 sec
    4th1:37.95+6.05 sec
    Your Best (7/26)1:44.00—

    I did not have enough data from today’s swim in order to calculate the freestyle times as I was trying to concentrate on breaststroke today. I will probably attempt an 800 freestyle tomorrow and then maybe the 1500 freestyle on Tuesday. I will have to see.

    But, I am pleased with today’s improvement, and I also know today was pushing it a little but with fatigue near the end, but that is OK as I needed to get today’s swim in in order for me to make a goal (I need another 6K total by the end of the month so that I can make my 50K of swimming for July. It would be a personal best for a month since about 10 years ago. I am trying to manage the potential to over train as well, my shoulders are 61 years old and my left one complaints frequently.

    I got home from my workout and found a tent set up in the livingroom. Jesse was testing out the new camping supplies for a trip he is going on next month.

    First tent that I have ever seen that does not have any poles or anything like that but just inflates. Sort of neat.

    That’s going to be it for today as I am tired. See you all tomorrow.