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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Jim,
Thanks for your kind words .. but inevitably you don't have to look far to find awe-inspiring swims from others. In our club we have a 29 year old (he competed at the Sydney Olympics btw!) who went 220 lengths of a 25 yard pool in the Hour swim which I thought was excellent.
A few weeks later I then discovered a 49 year old Californian has also managed 220 lengths!!!!!
How do you do a really big sulky face??
- similarly, swimming things like a 25 km open water seems pretty awesome stuff to me. Small tip - be 'careful' with the times your aiming for in open water - it's not as easy for them to get the distances 'spot on' and distances could be a a little under or over what they say it is. In addition, in a pool you tend to swim a fairly straight course. In open water .. well, you can see where I'm heading, yes?
Tom,
I haven't been on this board for a while. I must backtrack to find your details - I expect I too will be humbled when I read about your background.
Jim,
Thanks for your kind words .. but inevitably you don't have to look far to find awe-inspiring swims from others. In our club we have a 29 year old (he competed at the Sydney Olympics btw!) who went 220 lengths of a 25 yard pool in the Hour swim which I thought was excellent.
A few weeks later I then discovered a 49 year old Californian has also managed 220 lengths!!!!!
How do you do a really big sulky face??
- similarly, swimming things like a 25 km open water seems pretty awesome stuff to me. Small tip - be 'careful' with the times your aiming for in open water - it's not as easy for them to get the distances 'spot on' and distances could be a a little under or over what they say it is. In addition, in a pool you tend to swim a fairly straight course. In open water .. well, you can see where I'm heading, yes?
Tom,
I haven't been on this board for a while. I must backtrack to find your details - I expect I too will be humbled when I read about your background.
