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. . .
Typically the race organizers will assist swimmers in locating kayakers and kayaks. And often they will make arrangements with a local canoe and kayak club to find volunteers for swimmers in need. However, it is usually the responsibility of the swimmer to line up their escort craft or else it is included as part of a much larger entry fee.
And older swimmers have every right to participate in this event.
I did not notice on the entry form that race organizers will assist in locating kayakers, but maybe I missed it. A suggestion might be to add at least $100 dollars to the entry to provide for kayakers (who possibly would be willing to kayak for free donating it to a local charity). I think the suggestion that finding kayakers willing and able to go that far is a very real problem.
While my comment about old people swimming that far was meant to be humor (I'm pretty sure young swimmers do not even read this forum), I think 25K may be getting into dangerous territory for general masters swimming as it involves 6-10 hours of endurance (if you bonk running or biking you can stop, while in swimming, you may sink gracefully to the bottom hoping for good visibility and the chance to swoop your butt off the reservoir floor). Since I have no real experience in swimming that far, however, I will defer to the experts. :drown:
I think it would be fun to meet Morgan, Terry, and Dave.
Just trying to determine the best goal for this swim (due to it's extreme nature.)
Show up and try it and not worry about whether I finish. OR
Show up, try it, and do whatever I can to finish it.
Like Terry said, feeding/ hydrating would be key. Or you'll be out of the race.
Really, you will only train like it's a 10K?
Having met two of that crew (Dave & Morgan), I can tell you they're quite cool people. I am convinced that Dave and Terry were some sort of large marine mammal in a former life. They're usually the first to jump at the opportunity to swim in some of these OW events. They'll swim anything! :)
As for training, I don't really train for the 4.4 mi Bay swim. I just try to get some distance in during practice, and like you mention above, do whatever I can do finish it. Were I to be doing this event, I'd be doing the same thing - get some distance in during workouts, and just keep swimming! You can't really taper for this kind of distance... :fish2:
[QUOTE=(S)he-Man;119789 I get cold easily and I refuse to pack on the lbs for this. Sigh.
I wish I had the option to refuse to get fat...I'm already living the dream.:)
The entry says that you can rent kayaks there for $30, so it would probably mean only getting someone to do the kayaking. If you can't bring someone with you, then perhaps a local kayak club could help. When I did MIMS in 2006, I had the BEST kayaker EVER, just by pure luck of the draw. If I do it again some day, I'm going to beg her to be my kayaker again.
The 25k is so tempting, but with all that is going on right now in my life, it's probably not realistic. Big props to USMS for having it, though. Also, I notice that Marcia Cleveland is involved and she has a rep for doing things right.
-LBJ
Been there, done that and a few K more. Do we really need a race over 50 or 100m or y.
yea, we do. some of us take a 75 to 100 just to get going. that's why I like the 200 free/back. I think we could do without the 50 and the 1650 though.
I get cold easily and I refuse to pack on the lbs for this. Kristina,
You don’t need to pack on the pounds to fend off the cold. Gail Rice is a perfect example of a swimmer who swam slim, and she swam the English Channel without ill effect.
Don’t let this dissuade you.
Do you get cold when you are working hard or when you are on the wall between sets?
Anyone know what the water temp would be like?
Also, the only thing I could find on this was this flyer:
www.usms.org/.../stream2007fall.pdf
Is there an entry online somewhere, if so would someone post the link?
After doing the 100x100's a few weeks ago (in a pool), I think doing a long swim like this would be interesting.
We have a guy on my team who has done the Long Island Sound swim as part of a relay a few times (from CT to LI), I think it is about 15 miles, but on the relay he had to take breaks regularly. I know he wanted to do it all himself last year, but the demand for that event was too strong.
I'm wondering if I could last 6+ hours in the water. I get cold easily and I refuse to pack on the lbs for this. Sigh. Getting the escort will be an issue. . .
I may have to settle for the puny 10K in Clemson. See how that goes. . .
Gotta agree Jeff and some of the others...25k...people are nuts. I love to to swim and love to race...but that's a bit much. Then again, I think the 1 hour postal swim is nuts too but thats my $.000000000000002
Yeah. It is pretty crazy. What's USMS thinking?!
I think it would be fun to meet Morgan, Terry, and Dave.
Just trying to determine the best goal for this swim (due to it's extreme nature.)
Show up and try it and not worry about whether I finish. OR
Show up, try it, and do whatever I can to finish it.
Like Terry said, feeding/ hydrating would be key. Or you'll be out of the race.
Really, you will only train like it's a 10K?
Still not really sure I'd do this. I wonder how clean this reservoir is. I don't think I could take 6 hours of dirty.
Glider, give me free over breaststroke any day! :rofl:
