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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Hi Tom,
Perhaps I should clarify. I train in a 50mtr pool at Burlingame (south of San Francisco) but across the width it's 25 yds. We alternate between them but it's mainly LC at present.
Yes, don't start me up with swimming on the left ... actually coached a session here a while back and got them all doing it 'UK' style for a change, alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise in adjacent lanes. Beats me why they had so many problems. As a seasoned traveller I've never had any problem switching to suit the location. Perhaps it's got something to do with old dogs and new tricks ;-)
Of course, in the UK and Europe it's done this way as much for safety reasons. Hitting someone doing 'fly in the next lane isn't HALF as painful if you're both heading in roughly the same direction!
Hi Tom,
Perhaps I should clarify. I train in a 50mtr pool at Burlingame (south of San Francisco) but across the width it's 25 yds. We alternate between them but it's mainly LC at present.
Yes, don't start me up with swimming on the left ... actually coached a session here a while back and got them all doing it 'UK' style for a change, alternating clockwise and counter-clockwise in adjacent lanes. Beats me why they had so many problems. As a seasoned traveller I've never had any problem switching to suit the location. Perhaps it's got something to do with old dogs and new tricks ;-)
Of course, in the UK and Europe it's done this way as much for safety reasons. Hitting someone doing 'fly in the next lane isn't HALF as painful if you're both heading in roughly the same direction!
