The Gap Plan · by Herts Swim Coach
You can see the gap.
Here's how to close it.
A personal plan for you and your swimmer: which races are within reach, where the seconds are hiding, the real meets near you before the window shuts, and how to help on race day.
- Personal to your swimmer
- Usually ready in minutes
- 7-day money-back guarantee
The problem
A checker tells you the gap.
It doesn't tell you what to do about it.
- 01
1.54 seconds. One swim, or a season?
The number on its own can't say whether the gap is a sharper start away or a year of growth. Without that, effort goes everywhere.
- 02
The window closes quietly.
Qualifying windows end weeks before the championships. Miss the last licensed meet and a great swim no longer counts.
- 03
The coach has thirty swimmers.
Club sessions are built for the squad. There is rarely time for one swimmer's event-by-event plan.
What's inside
Their own plan, event by event.
- Every event rankedWithin reach now, this season, or next season, so effort goes where a qualifying time is closest.
- The gap, in plain wordsBest time, target time, and what the difference really means: one sharp turn, or a season of growth.
- Where the time is hidingFor the closest races: the start, turns, underwaters, pacing or stroke, and what usually moves each one.
- Real meets near youOpen meets inside the qualifying window, with dates, distance and entry links, and the next four weekends mapped out around them.
- Race-day help for youWhat to say before and after a race, and what to watch for or film to see the improvement.
- Gentle dryland at homeThree or four bodyweight exercises for power off the blocks and the walls, a few minutes a week, matched to their events.
The Season Pass
Your swimmer's own hub,
all season.
One swimmer, a whole season. Every swim on the rankings, a times sheet for the whole championship, progress charts and a meet log, and the plan kept current. We write after a meet, never every day.
- After every meetEvery swim on the rankings, PB or not. One email after each meet with new swims: what changed and what it means.
- “Time made” alertAn email the moment a new swim makes a qualifying time.
- Window-closing reminderA nudge before the qualifying window shuts, while there is still a meet to enter.
- Times sheet, progress, splitsEvery event and standard in one table, a chart for each event, a meet log with every PB, and target splits for each race.
How it works
Three steps. A few minutes.
- 1Check their timesFree, on any checker. Look your swimmer up by name or membership number.
- 2Choose plan or passSecure checkout by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
- 3Open their planA private link by email, usually within minutes. The pass keeps it current week by week.
Your swimmer's plan
Build it from today's times.
Your swimmer's result
The plan is built from a times check. Choose a checker, enter or look up your swimmer's times, then choose "Get my Gap Plan" under the results.
The plan is written by AI from your swimmer's times, within strict rules, for families to use themselves. It never promises a qualifying time.
Questions
Everything you might ask.
A times checker tells you the gap, for example 1.54 seconds to the county time. It doesn't tell you whether that is one good swim or a season's work, where the time is likely to be, or which meets are left before the qualifying window closes. The Gap Plan answers those questions for your swimmer, event by event.
The checker shows where your swimmer stands today. The plan turns that into what to do next: which races are realistic this season, what each gap really means in plain words, where the time usually hides and how to race it, the real open meets near you inside the qualifying window, a weekend-by-weekend plan, race-day help for you, and gentle dryland your swimmer can do at home.
A private hub for your swimmer, kept up to date all season. Each week, after the weekend's racing, we check every swim on the public rankings, not just PBs. The plan, the times sheet, the progress charts and the meet log update themselves, and after each meet with new swims you get one email saying what changed and what it means (you can switch those off). A time made, the window closing and next year's times always get an email. No daily emails. One swimmer, 12 months, £29.
The plan, kept current: the races to target, target splits for each 50, real meets near you that are still open for entries, and the next four weekends. The times sheet: every event your swimmer can swim at the championship, the best time, the qualifying times and the gap, swum or not. Progress charts for each event and pool, and a meet log with every swim and PB. It works on a phone and prints cleanly.
What each 50 of the target time looks like when the race is well paced, for example a 2:56.58 200 IM as fly, back, breast and free legs. After a race, compare them with the splits on the results: it shows straight away whether time went in the first half or the second.
Yes, as an add-on from the hub: a race video review for £35. Upload a race filmed from the side or the end of the pool, and a Herts Swim Coach coach sends written notes within 3 days: 3 to 5 points with the time in the video, and the one thing to work on next. It is watched by a person, never by AI, and the video is deleted 30 days after the notes are sent.
The plan is written by AI from your swimmer's own times, inside strict rules: it never promises a qualifying time, never gives medical, diet or training-volume advice, and never criticises a swimmer, parent or coach. Because it is automatic it usually arrives within minutes, and it costs a fraction of a coaching session.
No. Club training carries on exactly as it is. The plan is for you and your swimmer at home and at meets: what each race needs, which meets to enter, how to help on race day, and a few minutes of gentle dryland.
Only gentle bodyweight dryland: three or four simple exercises such as squat jumps, streamline holds and planks, a few minutes two or three times a week, chosen to suit their events. No weights, no equipment and no extra pool sessions.
From the licensed meets calendar for England and Wales. Add the first half of your postcode when you order (for example AL1) and the plan lists open meets nearby inside the qualifying window, with dates, distances and links. We never ask for a full address. Scottish meets are licensed separately, so for Scottish swimmers the plan links to the Scottish calendars.
Yes, if you want an honest picture. The plan says plainly which times are realistic this season and which are next season's targets, so effort goes where it counts and nobody is chasing the impossible.
Usually within minutes of paying, and always within 48 hours. It arrives by email as a private link you can open any time.
Yes, on both the single plan and the Season Pass. If it isn't useful, refund yourself in full within 7 days from your order page. You don't need to explain why.
Yes. Stop the renewal any time from your order page with one click; the pass keeps working until the 12 months are up.
Your email address, your swimmer's first name, the times and year of birth from your check, and (optional) the first half of your postcode for nearby meets. With the Season Pass you can add a membership number so we can follow new results. We use these only to write, send and update the plan. See the privacy policy.
Any county, regional, national or masters championship with a checker on this site. For national meets that invite by ranking, the plan measures the gap to last year's cut-off and says plainly that it is an estimate.
Yes. Masters swimmers order for themselves: the plan works the same way against the British Masters or Masters Nationals entry times.