Endurance 1000

The purpose of the Vorgee Endurance 1000 program is to encourage all swimmers to improve their fitness and endurance. The program’s aims are to promote aerobic fitness by providing an incentive (in the form of club points) for members to swim longer distance and to allow members to baseline their times for specific strokes/distances. Then monitor ongoing improvements (i.e. via a timed swim/time trial).

The total number of swims (gaining points) that can be completed is 62 – broken down into:

  • 25 individual 400m swims

  • 25 individual 800m swims

  • 3 by 1500m swims

  • 3 by 30-minute swims

  • 3 by 45-minute swims

  • 3 by 60-minute swims

Points are gained for the completion of each different event and are awarded according to age, gender, and time taken to complete each swim. Points accrue to the club, and there is an annual competition between clubs all over Australia.

Our club’s Endurance swims are all officially recorded in the Endurance 1000 Swim Summaries spreadsheet.

Recording your swims

Endurance swim recording sheets are available to download. It is important that you keep your personal recording sheet up to date and that you check it against the updated summaries spreadsheet on the club website. Sometimes swimmers repeat 400m or 800m swims of the same stroke in the same month — only one of them will count.

If you find a discrepancy in the official summaries (which occur occasionally), please contact our Endurance Recorder, so that it can be amended accordingly.

Timekeeping tips

We have had a few timekeeping mishaps, the worst being when the timekeeper managed to stop both watches when the swimmer still had two laps to go!  Our policy of running two stopwatches for each swimmer overcomes most problems, including watch failure, but we still need to be careful.  The backup watch should always be kept purely as backup, and not stopped until it needs to be reset for the next swimmer.  With the timing watch it is safer to use the split button rather than the stop button at the end of the swim.