New two mile goal

**whatabetty** · January 7th, 2006, 12:29 PM

I swam 2250 meters thursday and what a great workout. I was circling with my friends who are much faster than I. The pressure made me have one of the best swims so far. I'm signing up for my first 1/2 ironman this year. My goal is to do my first full ironman in 2007.

**engr** · January 9th, 2006, 09:46 AM

Nice job whatabetty! Those long distance swim sessions in a pool can be brutal! Good luck with the triathlon goals!

**Sasaku** · January 13th, 2006, 08:58 PM

Good Job and good luck on the ironman

**whatabetty** · January 18th, 2006, 06:52 PM

Thanks for your support guys. i'm swimmin tomorrow and hope to make my 2 mile mark.

**bbabb22** · January 18th, 2006, 07:30 PM

i had a hard time doing a few laps. Good luck with the two miles!

**whatabetty** · January 19th, 2006, 02:46 PM

I did!!!! I swam 2 miles today! I am completely stoked!

**engr** · January 19th, 2006, 03:39 PM

AWESOME!!! Way to go whatabetty!!!

That is great, just great, congratulations

Hrothgar · January 20th, 2006, 04:04 PM

Indeed. Congratualtions on your accomplishment.

**whatabetty** · January 20th, 2006, 07:17 PM

Thank you thank you. you know theres no going back now, boys!

**bbabb22** · January 20th, 2006, 07:52 PM

good stuff! Whats next 2.5 or 3 miles haha

**whatabetty** · January 23rd, 2006, 04:40 PM

I guess it would be to keep the two miles for awhile so I'll be ready for open water, yikes!

fitcore · January 28th, 2006, 10:49 AM

No need to worry! I found my first open water mile to be better than swimming laps. Just don't get caught up in the elbowing that goes on to start the race and you'll be fine. I let the crazies go, walked into the water and got into my pace. I think you'll be suprised.
Congrats on the improvement.

**whatabetty** · January 30th, 2006, 08:03 PM

Great advice fitcore. Thanks, I will keep that in mind.

eljamis · July 27th, 2006, 04:27 PM

keep it up and dont stop. Every time I get to 2 miles+ "life gets in the way" and bam back at square one! Due to work and wife in school no pool is open when I can go and so have not even taken a strok in months!!!

Lucky you keep going.

I find myself biking from 11pm to 1 am and running at other crazy times. You got to do what you got to do!

daniella · August 8th, 2006, 04:14 PM

Whatabetty, it's been a while since you started this thread, so your training may be beyond these comments. It's a huge accomplishment to get to that 2 mile mark. I've been doing 2 miles on Mondays and 1 mile on Wednesdays for quite a while. That was enough to get me ready for a half iron. I used to do 2-1-1 on M-W-F, but like eljamis says, it's hard to find enough time in the week to do all the training you would like to do. You'll want to increase your swim mileage when you train for a full iron. Until then, if you have extra hours for training, I would recommend that you keep 2 miles as your long swim, swim 1 or 2 other days with an emphasis on speed and sprinting and add cross training, like weights, yoga or a core class. And you can always increase your bike and run mileage. If you do the math, you'll come to the conclusion, as many of us have, that the best place to spend the extra minutes of training time is on the bike.

Triathlete magazine has a lot of training guides you may find useful. I also like the tri-related e-mails from Active.com. If you haven't discovered Total Immersion for your swim skills, look it up on line. It's the single best resource to improve your long distance swim skills. I've taken one of their classes and read a lot of Terry Laughlin's articles. His method works.