Here's the deal.
I can only swim 50 min to one hour a day, which equates to at most 2000 yards for endurance work and 1500 yards for faster interval work with more rest.
I feel guilty when I read about other peoples yardage. Is anyone putting up some fast freestyle times with this little yardage? If so, what are the times? I really want to know.
As scared as I was to run the 1/4, I would never touch the middle distance.
And I avoided the 1/4 like the plague. Nothing hurt worse than the final stretch. Not even hitting the wall at 21 mi in the marathon.
I didn't wanna start a new thread so I figured I would just dig up an old one that was the same topic. I"ve been doing some reading lately about doing aerobic work outside of the pool, ie. running, biking,, etc, and I was just wondering what everyone else's thoughts are about it. There is a similar debate on the race club forum but I wanted to hear from a wider range of people rather than just sprinters.
I'm an ex-runner and I still run. I have to -- can't do mega yardage because of shoulder issues. Plus, I like it. (I'll have to go see what the Race Club says about it now, as I'm a sprinter and I am now intrigued.)
We had a big debate on the running issue a few months ago which can be found at:
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
I think there was a poll started shortly after that thread too. I'd have to hunt for that one.
I don't know about biking, as I don't do it. I do know that Allen Stark bikes a lot to save the knees and Jim Clemmons was a cyclist before he became a world champion. Maybe others can comment on cycling.
I was a runner for 4 years before I started swimming. I ran xc 9-12 grade and track 9-11th grade (distance) and I started swimming seriously my senior year of high school.
I was just a late bloomin' runner having fun with some road races. But what a great sport. My husband is a lifelong runner and my son is a zealot xc runner. So I have the Prefontaine photo flag waving in my house with a whole bookcase of running books. I think the flag says something like "I don't run a race to win. I run it to see who has the most guts." So I really love your signature!
Are you kidding? Every book. Every movie. Awhile ago, I finished the Lore of Running. That was massive. I recently read Duel in the Sun and Ovette and Coe: The Record Breaking Rivalry.
Please do not lead me down the hijacking road or I will be scolded. :rofl: Can't some biker chime in real quick like?
Go check out that thread and let me know what you think after reading it.
Pre was the man back in his day. Have you read any of his books or seen the movies? They are motivating for anything whether it be sports related or not.
I didn't wanna start a new thread so I figured I would just dig up an old one that was the same topic. I"ve been doing some reading lately about doing aerobic work outside of the pool, ie. running, biking,, etc, and I was just wondering what everyone else's thoughts are about it. There is a similar debate on the race club forum but I wanted to hear from a wider range of people rather than just sprinters.
I was a runner for 4 years before I started swimming. I ran xc 9-12 grade and track 9-11th grade (distance) and I started swimming seriously my senior year of high school.
Pre was the man back in his day. Have you read any of his books or seen the movies? They are motivating for anything whether it be sports related or not.
I try to do a lot of cross training when I am not swimming for college or a team. I still try to do 5000 yards in the pool, but build up my running endurance at the same time. Over the summer I dont get as much opportunity to swim so I run more....but honestly, this summer I swam very little yardage a day and ran quite a bit, but I definatly was not in swimming shape when I came back to school in the fall.
