New To Marathon Swims

RE: New To Marathon Swims

Former Member — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:21:31 GMT

Kari--thank you so much for the info, I sent you an email to yahoo acct??? hopefully you received it. Please let me know!!

RE: New To Marathon Swims

Former Member — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:19:50 GMT

Thank you very much...I will take a look at this link. appreciate the info

RE: New To Marathon Swims

flystorms — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 11:28:37 GMT

SAKW was my first marathon swim too and it was a blast. If you PM me your email address, I'll send you the training plan I created and worked off of last year. You can also read my blog on the USMS blog site - Road to Key West - to help you see what I went thru on the journey and the race report. As for substituting long runs for long swims? Would you do the opposite while training for a road marathon? Probably not. There really isn't a substitute for getting the time in the water so you should plan on making it happen. My longest swim was about 14 or 15K and 4 hours and still did fine for the race. And yes, marathon swimmers forum is a great place to go for information. Just do a search and you'll get several threads about the race and prep for it (sometimes too much info.). :) Feel free to drop me a line for any questions. Kari

RE: New To Marathon Swims

orca1946 — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 07:17:32 GMT

This has peaked my interest as a guy on our team is training for a 35 mile swim from N dakota to mini next summer.

RE: New To Marathon Swims

Swimosaur — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 11:44:58 GMT

At the risk of overgeneralizing, I think most people here are pool swimmers. 1500 meters is "distance" to us. However, rooting around in my list of swimming links, I found a link to the Marathon Swimmers Forum, which features a collection of threads about Training, including one specifically titled Swim around Key West Training Plan and Feasability (sic). Hope that helps.