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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I swam in two 10K off shore races....and one was NOT fun in warm water....
In the event my body does not give out before I get it back together....I always wanted to swim the 24 mile Tampa Bay Swim....I know that IF I had tried to swim this in San Francisco Bay swim shape...I would have had a DARN good chance of making it....Now, that I am fighting my way back into shape....I am not sure the envelope will come together at the right place regarding getting in shape and the bottom end falling out....But, swimming the Tampa Bay 24 mile swim....is a many year old goal....9 to 12 hours in the water is purest swimming at the finest....! Swimming the English Channel is hero swimming in my book! And, what is off the chart wild....SOME have swam it over and back....and a few have swam it over and back and over....all in the same swim.....THAT IS....... well.....words cannot begin to write how off the chart that is......I am humbled deeply by those who have swam Tampa Bay...and seriously HUMBLED by those that swam the English Channel....and the few that swam it over and back...and over....In TEN life times I could not carry those swimmers goggles......
I swam in two 10K off shore races....and one was NOT fun in warm water....
In the event my body does not give out before I get it back together....I always wanted to swim the 24 mile Tampa Bay Swim....I know that IF I had tried to swim this in San Francisco Bay swim shape...I would have had a DARN good chance of making it....Now, that I am fighting my way back into shape....I am not sure the envelope will come together at the right place regarding getting in shape and the bottom end falling out....But, swimming the Tampa Bay 24 mile swim....is a many year old goal....9 to 12 hours in the water is purest swimming at the finest....! Swimming the English Channel is hero swimming in my book! And, what is off the chart wild....SOME have swam it over and back....and a few have swam it over and back and over....all in the same swim.....THAT IS....... well.....words cannot begin to write how off the chart that is......I am humbled deeply by those who have swam Tampa Bay...and seriously HUMBLED by those that swam the English Channel....and the few that swam it over and back...and over....In TEN life times I could not carry those swimmers goggles......
