I see that the 1st USMS 25K National Championship will be held in Noblesville, IN on July 19. Anyone planning to do this? Sounds sort of crazy. But. . . could be fun to try provided the training is there. . .
Husband just walked by and I mentioned I wanted to *maybe* do this. His response was, "Don't I provide enough for you?"
If only he knew the swimmer's mind. . .
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There are pretty good odds that both Dave Barra and I would do this. Personally I doubt I'd train any differently for 25K than I would for 10K. My focus for the summer will still be on shorter races - especially the 2-Mile Cable Championship one week earlier. My strategy would simply be to pace carefully, swim with maximal economy and feed intelligently.
On the other hand, if Dave and I can get three ADMS teammates to join us, it might be pretty hard to pass up the first USMS LD Relay Championship. They're swum at the same time so we couldn't do both.
I'm an ADMS swimmer, and I was thinking I might consider 1. doing the whole thing...which would be way beyond anything I had ever done before--but I'm sure I could do it pretty efficiently if I trained in some way for it...but keep me in mind for the relay if you find yourself needing just one more person--I'd really look into going seriously.
There are pretty good odds that both Dave Barra and I would do this. Personally I doubt I'd train any differently for 25K than I would for 10K. My focus for the summer will still be on shorter races - especially the 2-Mile Cable Championship one week earlier. My strategy would simply be to pace carefully, swim with maximal economy and feed intelligently.
On the other hand, if Dave and I can get three ADMS teammates to join us, it might be pretty hard to pass up the first USMS LD Relay Championship. They're swum at the same time so we couldn't do both.
I'm an ADMS swimmer, and I was thinking I might consider 1. doing the whole thing...which would be way beyond anything I had ever done before--but I'm sure I could do it pretty efficiently if I trained in some way for it...but keep me in mind for the relay if you find yourself needing just one more person--I'd really look into going seriously.
