I am moving somewhere where I won't be able to swim much for two years. Anyway, I made it my goal to swim 15,000 meters straight in four hours. I was only able to swim 14,000 meters, but it was a great experience. I actually had time to finish another thousand, but my body died on me. I should also say that I have not been training like I usually do, so this was a lot of swimming. It was a great accomplishment and I can now go without swimming for awhile. My question is, what is the most you have ever done in a workout or in a day and what has it meant to you?
In my case, this was the most I had ever done in a workout. Most in a day was 25,000 that was stretched over the entire day. The meaning of my 14,000 meters was that I was able to have the mental and physical ability to handle doing this many meters by myself.
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In response to the 'how much could be swum in 24 hours' .. go check out the Guinness Book of Records. Last time I looked was several years ago but the record in a 25 m pool is ~60 miles, held by a Swedish swimmer.
At the time (1990s) a colleague of mine had attempted to break this record but had failed :-(. It's a phenomenal pace to keep up.
I ended up contacting the record holder .. and to cut a long story short I got a letter back from him where he said that "even today, he was not sure it was worth it". I gather he suffered from side effects afterwards.
In answer to the initial thread, the furthest I've swum in one go is only 10km in a 25m pool, although I was pleased to complete it in ~2h 15m. This was 3 years ago, when aged 43.
In response to the 'how much could be swum in 24 hours' .. go check out the Guinness Book of Records. Last time I looked was several years ago but the record in a 25 m pool is ~60 miles, held by a Swedish swimmer.
At the time (1990s) a colleague of mine had attempted to break this record but had failed :-(. It's a phenomenal pace to keep up.
I ended up contacting the record holder .. and to cut a long story short I got a letter back from him where he said that "even today, he was not sure it was worth it". I gather he suffered from side effects afterwards.
In answer to the initial thread, the furthest I've swum in one go is only 10km in a 25m pool, although I was pleased to complete it in ~2h 15m. This was 3 years ago, when aged 43.
