I needed a way to track my Endless Pool workouts, so I built one. I mentioned this briefly in my race report about this year’s Ironman 70.3 St. George, but for the past few weeks I’ve been swimming in an Endless Pool, since the Teton County Rec Center’s lap pool remains, alas, closed for the foreseeable future. It’s been an effective training tool, but one of the annoying things about it is that it’s hard to track my workouts—there are no “laps,” so all I can do is time-based sets, and even then, I have trouble keeping track in my head of how many sets I’ve done, at what pace, and for how long. So, I built myself a little tool to do this: I call it SwimSetter, and it’s a simple web app to keep track of my sets in the Endless Pool.
Using it is easy: Just bring your phone to the pool in a waterproof case, leave it on the side, open the app, set a timer or a stopwatch on your watch, and then just swim. Whenever you stop for a rest, enter how long your last set lasted and at what pace it was, and repeat until you’re done with your workout. The app will add up your total time, distance, and average pace, which you can then enter into a workout log or a manual Strava activity or wherever you want.
It’s a very simple tool that answers a very simple question for me: “Have I swam enough today?” But it might be useful to you too, so here it is.