I am doing the 1 hour swim Sunday. What are the basics for me to know? What should I eat the night before. Should I drink water during the swim. Are their any articles I can read online to learn about how to swim the 1 hour?
Thanks
Eddy Merckx, arguably the greatest cyclist of all time, won many 2,000 mile plus tours, but he said the hardest thing he ever did was breaking the one hour record in 1972. There is something about the hour time frame that allows you to push hard into some kind of out of body pain threshold but not long enough where you have to significantly slow down.
Start slower than you think you ought to start and that is the only real good piece of advice. The other stuff is detail you can't change three days before your event (I don't think you can improve your fitness and I'm not sure it matters how much sleep or what you eat as everybody's different). For me, I eat a couple of hours before I do it. I usually have some GUs and electrolyte drink in the 1/2 hour before chased with a slug of maalox. A nice dump is always good (?too much information?) I wear my fastskin as it is a national championship. I don't wear a cap (get too hot). I make sure whatever idiot is counting for me knows how to use a split button (didn't do this last time) and have a backup watch going. They also need to make sure everyone stays out of your lane. You will feel like quitting about 20-40 minutes in--do and nobody will speak to you again and consider you to have the fortitude of an 8 year- old girl.
That is all--good luck.
Eddy Merckx, arguably the greatest cyclist of all time, won many 2,000 mile plus tours, but he said the hardest thing he ever did was breaking the one hour record in 1972. There is something about the hour time frame that allows you to push hard into some kind of out of body pain threshold but not long enough where you have to significantly slow down.
Start slower than you think you ought to start and that is the only real good piece of advice. The other stuff is detail you can't change three days before your event (I don't think you can improve your fitness and I'm not sure it matters how much sleep or what you eat as everybody's different). For me, I eat a couple of hours before I do it. I usually have some GUs and electrolyte drink in the 1/2 hour before chased with a slug of maalox. A nice dump is always good (?too much information?) I wear my fastskin as it is a national championship. I don't wear a cap (get too hot). I make sure whatever idiot is counting for me knows how to use a split button (didn't do this last time) and have a backup watch going. They also need to make sure everyone stays out of your lane. You will feel like quitting about 20-40 minutes in--do and nobody will speak to you again and consider you to have the fortitude of an 8 year- old girl.
That is all--good luck.
