Would it be very detrimental to my swimming if I trained and did one of these? Read the book "Born to Run" and really want to do at least one ultramarathon. However, I still want to improve on swimming especially getting better in 100 fly and eventually working up to 200 fly. Thoughts?
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What is your focus? Running or Swimming. If you want to run the ultra properly you would need (weekly):
2 or 3 light 3-5 miles jogs
2 8-12 mile runs
1 20-30 mile run
Total Mileage should be 40-70 miles per week depending where you are in the training cycle.
There is no way to maintain a swimmers body with that kind of running. The best you can hope for is to do some warm up swims on the light jog days.
You have to pick one. Really.
What is your focus? Running or Swimming. If you want to run the ultra properly you would need (weekly):
2 or 3 light 3-5 miles jogs
2 8-12 mile runs
1 20-30 mile run
Total Mileage should be 40-70 miles per week depending where you are in the training cycle.
There is no way to maintain a swimmers body with that kind of running. The best you can hope for is to do some warm up swims on the light jog days.
You have to pick one. Really.
