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.
Originally posted by thinkersw
I should also say that I have not been training like I usually do, so this was a lot of swimming.
Holy smokes! I pale in comparison to you. I'd hate to think what you could do if you were training like you normally do.
15 miles in a 25 yard pool. 6 hours and 45 minutes.
Consisted of all sorts of sets of different distances and smatterings of different strokes but mostly freestyle.
When your body fails in a long hard work out,
it's called bonking.
you bonked.
When I was in high school training for paul bergen, there were many days where we trained over 15,000.
I don't know if I ever went over 20,000 so probably my max is between 15 and 20.
Some Saturdays we used to first run 10 miles then go do a work out.
how far in 24 hours
Mathmatically there's 86,400 seconds in a day
24 x 60 x 60 = 86,400
Many people can easily swim 200 yards in 3:00
3:00 = 180 seconds
so if a person continually swam 200's on 3:00 intervals for 24 hours non stop they could swim 48,000 yards in a 24 hours
86,400 / 180 = 480
480 x 100 = 48,000
54,000 yards on 2:40 pace
I read about Erik Vendt doing
30 x 1000 on 10:30 or 11:00
Now I sometimes go over 5,000
Ande
Originally posted by thinkersw
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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Originally posted by thinkersw
I should also say that I have not been training like I usually do, so this was a lot of swimming.
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Holy smokes! I pale in comparison to you. I'd hate to think what you could do if you were training like you normally do.
If I had been training to swim this much, I would have completed 15,000 and I would have completed it in less time. Since I have not been training as much as I should, I had to do intervals and take some rest. For the first two hours I was able to maintain a 1:30 pace for 100 meter freestyle. The last two hours was just hanging on and finishing. (I also swam an hour of Masters practice where most people could not understand why I was swimming so much slower than I ususally do).
I got into Masters to get away from doing 15,000 meters per day.
Now I do about 3,000 meters (3,500 yards) a day, and I LOVE IT!
If I need to do more to stay in shape, then maybe I'll bump it up to 3,700 yards. ;)
I usually do about 3,000-4,000 a day. I did this much as a one time thing because I am not going to have the opportunity to swim for the next two years and I wanted to do something memorable. I also wanted to test my mental strength in setting a goal and achieving it.
