People who are already over 100 and 200 miles for the year?!

Hi! I joined the USMS FLOG (love the acronym...) at the end of January. I am excited about the prizes for various milestones! However, I noticed some people are already at 100 or 200 miles for the year. Holy moly! I thought I swam a lot! Are any of these people reading? Why such high yardage? How do you structure your week? Singles, doubles? Intrigued. Allison
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  • have respect for anyone swimming that much for sure. I am merely curious about their training schedules and what they're training for! I'm just training to make sure that I don't drown if I ever fall off a boat in the middle of the ocean and have to swim 10 miles to the nearest island... if I could do the ten miles as IM, well, that just gives me a better chance, right? Saturday's workout will be 5 x thru (5 x 200 free + 400 IM)--not including warm-up and cool-down.
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  • have respect for anyone swimming that much for sure. I am merely curious about their training schedules and what they're training for! I'm just training to make sure that I don't drown if I ever fall off a boat in the middle of the ocean and have to swim 10 miles to the nearest island... if I could do the ten miles as IM, well, that just gives me a better chance, right? Saturday's workout will be 5 x thru (5 x 200 free + 400 IM)--not including warm-up and cool-down.
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