Does anyone else think the go the distance program is seriously stupid. The prizes stink, it's too hard to get them if you even get the prize you deserved. I don't even think most people are even telling the truth about how much they swim to cheat.
Counting yardage and only yardage is like trying to train for a short drag race by driving a Prius going across america's highways at 68 mph. Yes, you'll log in a lot of mileage, but it won't be race specific.
Only a handful of swimmers on my team compete in meets regularly (and based on my unofficial guess from dropping in with other groups, I'd say this is more often the case).
There are quite a few more who do open water swimming, and truthfully, when you're swimming a distance, slow and steady is the way to go.
Racing 100m in a lake isn't such a good idea...not when you'd still have 3900m (or far more) to go :afraid:
Actually, GTD is a pretty good training tool for much of this. Our Triple Crown swimmer used GTD, quite successfully.
Counting yardage and only yardage is like trying to train for a short drag race by driving a Prius going across america's highways at 68 mph. Yes, you'll log in a lot of mileage, but it won't be race specific.
Only a handful of swimmers on my team compete in meets regularly (and based on my unofficial guess from dropping in with other groups, I'd say this is more often the case).
There are quite a few more who do open water swimming, and truthfully, when you're swimming a distance, slow and steady is the way to go.
Racing 100m in a lake isn't such a good idea...not when you'd still have 3900m (or far more) to go :afraid:
Actually, GTD is a pretty good training tool for much of this. Our Triple Crown swimmer used GTD, quite successfully.
