The other day, as I was being thrashed by a heavy lap swimmer, I once again pondered the difference between a swimmers body and a runners body. I have seen quite a few husky guys, carrying quite a bit of extra weight, who are also very good swimmers. On the other hand, you won't see runners who are carrying extra weight (unless they have just begun running). I think that there maybe a chicken-egg thing here (heavier guys tend not to go in for distance running) but I think that there are other considerations. One of them is that swimming tends to arouse appetite while running tends to suppress appetite.
Having said all that, I just can't yearn for a runners body, even though I would love to drop 5 kgs. I just do not want a body with no arms or shoulders. Also, maybe it's me, but this guy looks like an anorexic model:
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That's a 10K in under 30 minutes. That would have put you in the top 20 in the NCAAs last year. Impressive!
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I always thought I'm a bad runner and even worse stayer. Without controlling HR I tend to start too fast and then faint after 1-2 miles :D
When I was a swimmer at school my main distance was 100m breaststroke and I was thinking that smth wrong is with our coaches head who was making us swim 5 - 7 km a day. Vacations at school meant doubled meterage. That was making me sick of swimming though still I liked swimming a lot. You can't imagine how jealous I was when I heard recently from one breaststroker (100m under 1:07) that they never swam more than 3000m a day. So that was quite a revelation that in my 35 I can run more than 10K without gasping. Still my results in distance swimming are far from being impressive 1.5K free in 27 min.
That's a 10K in under 30 minutes. That would have put you in the top 20 in the NCAAs last year. Impressive!
:bolt:
I always thought I'm a bad runner and even worse stayer. Without controlling HR I tend to start too fast and then faint after 1-2 miles :D
When I was a swimmer at school my main distance was 100m breaststroke and I was thinking that smth wrong is with our coaches head who was making us swim 5 - 7 km a day. Vacations at school meant doubled meterage. That was making me sick of swimming though still I liked swimming a lot. You can't imagine how jealous I was when I heard recently from one breaststroker (100m under 1:07) that they never swam more than 3000m a day. So that was quite a revelation that in my 35 I can run more than 10K without gasping. Still my results in distance swimming are far from being impressive 1.5K free in 27 min.
