I just registered and I am extraordinarily nervous :eek:
I have done a couple 4500-5000 yd workouts in the past week but need to ramp up the distance
AIEEEEEEEE!
Does anyone have some favorite long pool workouts? I know there is the workout section of the forum but am curious if anyone has any workouts that they love :D
Anyone else going ?
One caution on ramping up yardage... I know a lot of people who ramped up for a long swim and ended up with pre-event shoulder injuries that kept them from competing in or completing the race.
Thanks. I will be careful.
Tigechick if you are not racing it I'm sure you will be fine given your statements about 5mile swims. There is racing and there is completing....two vastly different approaches and outcomes. Just start out so easy you swear it's not swimming, it will get hard enough b/f too long. If you under pace then you can always kill it the last lap. I never regretted starting an ultra too slow, but dang I sure have pulled the plug on a few where I thought I could turn up the volume a bit only to find out my ego was much larger than my engine.
I'm assuming you have your nutrition kinks if any worked out? There is a huge learning curve with that which cannot be discounted in a 10K swim. If one has trained their system to burn fat then liquids for hydration can be all you need, but if one is a carb fueled machine ya gotta have re-loads ready on tap!
Race safe and let us know how it goes!
bump to find out if anyone else is going
training is going pretty well. 7000 yd swim Thursday of last week, and this week has been 1700 scy Monday, 4300 scm Tuesday, 4600 scm this morning
FYI, Bill May was the overall winner. Yes, that Bill May. Turns out he can swim pretty fast for a decent while in addition to being able to hold his breath underwater while spinning around. According to the event press, he lives in Las Vegas and performs in the Cirque du Soleil water show. (I saw it a few years ago. It is fantastic.)
