One hour postal swim

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Former Member — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:24:32 GMT

Swam the postal on Sunday. I decided to shave down since this has been a very competitive event historically. Now we had been swimming 1000 and 500 repeats at one hour postal pace in practice; I was 2% faster shaved but untapered.

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swimflyfast — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:27:51 GMT

John Batchelder form Foothills Masters in Colorado swam 4025 yards of Butterfly in one hour, just 7 min after swimming 5015 yards in one hour of Crawl.. I thought I was crazy...:applaud: Shirley Bibles of the Aquatics Club of Georgetown in Texas started off in Texas fashion by Swimming Butterfly Back And Breaststroke IM order setting unofficial, nonconforming, and unrecognized records for the 500 Fly, 500 ***, and 1500 IM.:applaud: Butterfly is Not a Crime

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Rich B. — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:57:34 GMT

8x 500 descend 1-4 and 5-8, + whatever distance is left till you hit 1 hr

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mmlr38 — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 09:30:12 GMT

Last year I did 3850 after only a couple of months on the Team. This year, the goal was 4300 and I did that! Yay! And I'm really excited to see that I've knocked a minute off my mile swim from a meet back in July. Finished off for a total of 8k for training today. I'm pooped! Time for a protein shake followed by a glass of vino. Have a great weekend, y'all! Well done!

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jim thornton — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 06:08:15 GMT

Yes it is awesome I use it for my kids. When you are done you can email yourself (or anyone) the file. play.google.com/.../details Thanks! I downloaded this app, and it made it incredibly easy to fill out the online form for the postal meet! I like how it lets you email the splits and cumulative times right to your email!

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flystorms — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 07:31:22 GMT

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knelson — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:06:04 GMT

I finally got good enough at my flip turns to keep them closed the entire swim this year and crushed the 5k mark with 5085 yards! I was so excited! Nice job. Congrats!

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mmlr38 — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:57:43 GMT

Did my first one this year and made 4785. Was really happy with that and probably could have made more with a better suit and lane (I got the slanted lane between the deep and shallow end w/ a jet on the far side). My strategy was to start easy and build @ 2000 and 4000 yards. While I felt like the effort was increasing, I pretty much did 1:15 - 1:16 every 100. I had a rabbit to chase down in the lane next to me which helped keep me busy and focused. It really bothered me to not know how fast I was going. I knew the yardage but had no idea on the pace. Nice work on getting 4785 on your first go! It is really tough to not know your pace. Usually when I do the postal swims, I make sure to have a clock that is visible from my lane. It makes it much easier to stay focused when you know the pace you're swimming...at least I think so. Nice job. Congrats! Thanks Kirk!

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Former Member — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:05:30 GMT

Yes it is awesome I use it for my kids. When you are done you can email yourself (or anyone) the file. play.google.com/.../details

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smontanaro — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 01:04:05 GMT

I was lucky that I had my 14 year old daughter timing me using an android app. There's an app for that? Do tell. That would save writing down all those splits!

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Former Member — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:53:39 GMT

I was lucky that I had my 14 year old daughter timing me using an android app. I have timed her at many a distance event in her age group meets and we have a good system of signals to communicate. We just reversed roles!

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philoswimmer — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:07:51 GMT

Anyone done this for 2014 yet? Share your goals, struggles, and accomplishments!

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Bobinator — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:06:57 GMT

I did it last sunday at the IU Natatorium. I just got in a comfy rhythm and swam non-stop the whole hour for a 3,750 effort. I had vomit in my throat from about 10 minutes till around the 30 minute mark and I'm not sure why. After 30 minutes I settled in and enjoyed my time of aquatic solitude.

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Former Member — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:05:38 GMT

I did it for the first time this year. I've only been swimming about 1.5 years (since quitting age group thing 30 years ago) and my typicla hour workout is around 2200. So I was happy with my 3000. My 500 splits were 9:50, 10:12, 10:10, 9:57, 9:56, 9:55 rounded

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pmccoy — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 06:10:16 GMT

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mmlr38 — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:16:55 GMT

Anyone done this for 2014 yet? Share your goals, struggles, and accomplishments! Yep, just did mine last Sunday! Was coming off of a pretty severe cold the previous week, so I didn't know what to expect really. Was so excited to finally crack 5000 yards! I wanted it so badly last year. I tried twice, going 4950 and 4975, but just couldn't crack that 5k mark. I finally got good enough at my flip turns to keep them closed the entire swim this year and crushed the 5k mark with 5085 yards! I was so excited!

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knelson — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:33:09 GMT

I'm always trying to figure out the best rest/rehydration/swim balance. Personally I think there's no way you can improve on swimming it straight without breaks. You just need to know how to pace it so you can swim consistently for an hour. The boredom element is a whole 'nother story...

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philoswimmer — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:04:47 GMT

Breaks less frequent and of shorter duration. Energy gel before I splash. Aspirin/Advil before I think I need it. Every 300 of free I enjoyed a length of back and a length of BR. People find different ways to make the event tolerable. Thanks. I was doing short breaks -- just enough time to take a few quick sips -- every 500 or 600 or so. But I wondered afterward if I would have done better with longer breaks that might have enabled me to swim faster in between breaks. As you say, part of it is just figuring out how to make the event tolerable!

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ViveBene — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:02:12 GMT

Well done!! So, what was your strategy? I'm always trying to figure out the best rest/rehydration/swim balance. Breaks less frequent and of shorter duration. Energy gel before I splash. Aspirin/Advil before I think I need it. Every 300 of free I enjoyed a length of back and a length of BR. People find different ways to make the event tolerable.

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philoswimmer — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:53:14 GMT

Glub. Done and done. 5.707% more yardage than last year, owing to better management of rest and rehydration intervals. The stroking part of it could only have been worse than last year. It's a good setup for doing the remaining postals, spread out over the year. Well done!! So, what was your strategy? I'm always trying to figure out the best rest/rehydration/swim balance.

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ViveBene — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:44:07 GMT

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poolraat — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:56:24 GMT

I went to Boise, ID this weekend to do the 1 hour swim. I had a good swim, going 4035 yards even though I did not rest at all prior to doing this. In addition to training hard all last week, I swam a 3300 yard workout on Saturday and then drove to Boise (a 4 hour drive from Elko), went cross country skiing and then out on the town for drinks and dancing with my coach. Woke up Sunday morning thinking I really didn't want to do it, but picked up my coach and went to the YMCA, jumped in and went for it. My best distance for this is 4050 yards when I swam it 2 years ago, so I was quite pleased with this year's effort. This is the 7th time I've done it since I began swimming in 2000, and I've been over 4000 yards all except twice when I was just under that mark.

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Elaine Krugman — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:10:46 GMT

Personal Worst for me this year, 4545. Recovering from a herniated disk that had me bedridden for four weeks, so I have a reason. But don't like it very much. I was about to stop for some gatorade at about 3600, but then my friend who was doing it at the same time started swimming backward and I pulled back about 40 of the 80 yard lead he had on me in the space of a 200. So I didn't stop. I never caught him but pushing through with what I had was one little nugget of positive that I will take with me to the next race. Had some good swims on the squad I coach, so that was good as well.That's a heck of a swim considering what you have been through! :applaud: You may not like it very much, but you should be proud of yourself for what you accomplished. Having been through a laminectomy/discectomy of L5S1, I know what a herniated disc is like. Give yourself some credit. :agree:

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Kevin in MD — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:00:26 GMT

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That Guy — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:30:48 GMT

Fantastic job! I suggest that next year you consider doing it as a series of 400 or 200 or even 100 IMs to see if more regularly rotating your crops of pain will lead to a more bounteous harvest of IM yards! I think the 400 approach would probably be optimum, or maybe the 200. You'd get dizzy doing 45 x 100 IMs (give or take) on 1:20, too much abrupt change in orientation for your semi circular canals to get used to. Thanks Jim! I haven't given too much thought to next year's one hour swim yet. I've completed 30 x 100 IM on 1:25 three times (note: that set is known as THE QBRAIN MEMORIAL) and though in my most recent effort I did 1:20's for most of the repeats, I suppose in a continuous swim it would work. Then I wouldn't have the "one or two seconds of so-called rest is worse than just doing a flip turn" problem.