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.
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.
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.
