One of our swimmers on the Elgin Blue Wave Masters team brought up a guy who swims 14,000 yards a day each and every day to achieve his yearly total. I find this really difficult to comprehend. Has anyone heard of such swimmers?
It depends on your goals, if your goal is to swim as much as you can in a day or year, fine. If your goal is to swim fast, then I doubt this mega-yardage is especially good for that. If you are doing marathon type swims, then it probably is worthwhile. Anyone know many of these mega-yardage swimmers are making Top Ten, or All Americans?
Georgia Masters members Pat Eddy (60-64) and Chris Greene (55-59) both went over 2,000 miles last year. Chris is a marathon swimmer and doesn't compete in the pool, but Pat does. Here is his Top Ten record: www.usms.org/.../toptenind.php
I wrote profiles on both of them, if you want more info. about their backgrounds. Just let me know!
It depends on your goals, if your goal is to swim as much as you can in a day or year, fine. If your goal is to swim fast, then I doubt this mega-yardage is especially good for that. If you are doing marathon type swims, then it probably is worthwhile. Anyone know many of these mega-yardage swimmers are making Top Ten, or All Americans?
Georgia Masters members Pat Eddy (60-64) and Chris Greene (55-59) both went over 2,000 miles last year. Chris is a marathon swimmer and doesn't compete in the pool, but Pat does. Here is his Top Ten record: www.usms.org/.../toptenind.php
I wrote profiles on both of them, if you want more info. about their backgrounds. Just let me know!
