For me, it's now going on four weeks since my last swim. We were in Turks and Caicos March 7-14 for spring break where I was doing daily open-water swims along the beach. My last swim was a 3-miler on March 13. When we got back to the U.S., we had to go into mandated 14-day quarantine so I wasn't able to get out to go to the pool before they all closed. Who knows when I'll swim again...either open-water warming up (I live in RI), or pools opening again. I am maintaining fitness with bike rides, and a run here and there. And I know I there is other 'dry land' training I could be doing. But my concern when returning to the water is injuring myself because of doing TMTS. I'm just that kind of athlete. Raise you're hand if you think you're a candidate for a TMTS injury too.
Dan
At the risk of sounding like a jerk, you aren't off a little, you are off a LOT. You'd be more effective throwing darts. Blind folded. Seriously, open water is a TOTALLY different animal.
Short course pool - 1.9m/stroke (or half cycle)......falls to maybe 1.6 at the end of a hard mile.
100M pool - 43.8 cycles per lap, which amounts to 1.15m/stroke
Open water - 1.03m/stroke
It isn't just the wall. It is also the sighting, the chop, the current.
A note about current. My first swim, current was very strong. Only made it about 500 yards. Took 40 minutes. But under 8 minutes back (I"m going off of memory). That averages 4:48 per 100. Thursday, average current. Don't know what it was there and back, as I just swam around a bridge. But average was 1:36/100. FWIW, at those distances, I average about 1:22/100 in the pool.
I get teh dislike of the technology. I don't do Instagram, Twitter, or any of that other stuff (do have a FB account). My response last week when a guy mentioned using Strava for tracking stuff was "What's Strava?" Don't really care about a lot of that stuff, and I have been swimming without those tools for years. But don't kid yourself into swimming blind.
I understand where you are coming from. When there is a wind and waves, yes that makes a huge difference. But where I swim, most of the time the water is calm and glassy. It's a relatively sheltered area, with log booms surrounding it. I wish I knew how to post a google-earth image with the 200m line that I use. (See, I am a luddite!) Lo and behold, after 67 breaths (ie "200m"), I have indeed covered that 200m distance when wind/waves are not a factor.
At the risk of sounding like a jerk, you aren't off a little, you are off a LOT. You'd be more effective throwing darts. Blind folded. Seriously, open water is a TOTALLY different animal.
Short course pool - 1.9m/stroke (or half cycle)......falls to maybe 1.6 at the end of a hard mile.
100M pool - 43.8 cycles per lap, which amounts to 1.15m/stroke
Open water - 1.03m/stroke
It isn't just the wall. It is also the sighting, the chop, the current.
A note about current. My first swim, current was very strong. Only made it about 500 yards. Took 40 minutes. But under 8 minutes back (I"m going off of memory). That averages 4:48 per 100. Thursday, average current. Don't know what it was there and back, as I just swam around a bridge. But average was 1:36/100. FWIW, at those distances, I average about 1:22/100 in the pool.
I get teh dislike of the technology. I don't do Instagram, Twitter, or any of that other stuff (do have a FB account). My response last week when a guy mentioned using Strava for tracking stuff was "What's Strava?" Don't really care about a lot of that stuff, and I have been swimming without those tools for years. But don't kid yourself into swimming blind.
I understand where you are coming from. When there is a wind and waves, yes that makes a huge difference. But where I swim, most of the time the water is calm and glassy. It's a relatively sheltered area, with log booms surrounding it. I wish I knew how to post a google-earth image with the 200m line that I use. (See, I am a luddite!) Lo and behold, after 67 breaths (ie "200m"), I have indeed covered that 200m distance when wind/waves are not a factor.
