My training group always share news of an extremely handsome guy who swim 10 km in 2 hours - I'm very jealous. I can only do about 5 km in 2 hours - even 3 hours for 10 km seem a very far away to be a realistic target.
I feel discouraged reading such news - the speed difference is so huge - the handsome guy is doing double my speed. What a tremendous amount of training is needed to double the speed?! Moreover, for serious competitions under FINA rule, the cut-off is 30 minutes after the winner - assume that the winner completes in 2 hours, the qualifying time would then be 2 and a half hours - much faster than Boston Qualifier in running, which is the dream of a lot of runners. This is another fact which discourage me.
Obviously, you have to kill him.
Eating his brain is optional, but probably recommended if you want to duplicate his times.
No,no, no! You must eat his heart.
My training group always share news of an extremely handsome guy who swim 10 km in 2 hours - I'm very jealous. I can only do about 5 km in 2 hours - even 3 hours for 10 km seem a very far away to be a realistic target.
Aw, shucks. But, your training group greatly exaggerates my swimming ability.
My training group always share news of an extremely handsome guy who swim 10 km in 2 hours - I'm very jealous. I can only do about 5 km in 2 hours - even 3 hours for 10 km seem a very far away to be a realistic target.
I feel discouraged reading such news...You may never get as fast as the guy in your training group (very few can swim a sub 2-hour 10K). But with effort you can improve. What you can also work on is being jealous and discouraged. Neither one of these is going to make you a better swimmer or a better person.
As for FINA’s 30 minute rule, there are plenty of open water swims that don’t use this rule, so unless you are shooting for a FINA pro series event, I don’t see why you need to stress about this.
