Being a former runner, this makes a lot of sense to me. I've always wondered about this obsession with yardage (and have even been caught up in it) and how swimming large volumes of yardage at relatively pedestrian speeds can be beneficial to someone who races primarily sprints. When I was training for 880 and mile races the bulk of my training was intervals of 220 to 660 yards at race pace with a relatively short recovery. About half of my training was what was considered LSD but my training regimen usually consisted of 3-5 miles of steady runs in the morning and 1-2 hours of track work in the afternoons. I never tracked the distance of the afternoon workouts, it was more about the intensity and speed. It appears that Ande has already figured it out.
Being a former runner, this makes a lot of sense to me. I've always wondered about this obsession with yardage (and have even been caught up in it) and how swimming large volumes of yardage at relatively pedestrian speeds can be beneficial to someone who races primarily sprints. When I was training for 880 and mile races the bulk of my training was intervals of 220 to 660 yards at race pace with a relatively short recovery. About half of my training was what was considered LSD but my training regimen usually consisted of 3-5 miles of steady runs in the morning and 1-2 hours of track work in the afternoons. I never tracked the distance of the afternoon workouts, it was more about the intensity and speed. It appears that Ande has already figured it out.
