Swimming.

[saxikath]

Yes, I did go swimming. I'm going again tonight. Rawr!

I was thinking about doing one of the "Walking to Rivendell"-type things for keeping track of my progress (or, in my case, perhaps "Walking to Santiago" would be better), but the problem is, swimming mileage is so much lower for the same amount of workout. (i.e., yesterday I swam half a mile in about half an hour, and it was a pretty solid workout.) So tracking by mileage is not going to be very motivational. At this rate, it'd take me about three years to get to Rivendell! So I need to find some different motivator, or work out some equivalence between amount swum and equivalent miles walked.

Comments

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

Calculate the volume of water you've swum through (whatever the dimensions of a standard Olympic swimming lane x distance swum). Choose something appropriately voluminous (Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela?) and try to fill it up.

[cnoocy]

Or compare it to some watery distance. The English channel? The Atlantic Ocean from here to Spain?

[bookishfellow.livejournal.com]

That's not bad. What are some good epic swimming feats? Leander and the Hellespont. Beowulf's contest with Breca.

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

How about swimming the English Channel?

[kayre]

Well, hard/fast walking is about 5 mph, so you could multiply by 5-- seems fair to me.

Go you, for doing it at all! I had a great time doing Rivendell, and it really helped establish the walking habit.

[qarylla.livejournal.com]

For what it is worth, this is the calculation I used in high school when I both swam during the winter and did track in the spring.

500 meters (or yards, whichever calculation you are more comfortable with) is for me equivalent of a mile. When I swam the 500 free it took me the same amount of time or slightly longer than running the mile in the spring.

[davehogg.livejournal.com]

Keep track of minutes swum and convert it to minutes walked. If you swim for 10 minutes, give yourself credit for 10 minutes of walking at the high end of your range.

For me, that would be 4 mph - I usually walk between 3.7 and 4 if I'm walking outdoors by myself.