OK, how many people on here would rather be a runner than a swimmer, but due to injuries or something else have been forced to turn to a sport that has less impact on the body?
I swim as cross training for running. I found that every day running did not work for me(although I would love to if I could) but 3 times per week does even with high mileage.
I do love swimming and the feeling after a good workout, however, for me, it cannot compare to the feeling of running. It is so much more relaxing and provides better "thinking time than swimming".
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I think when someone dislikes running, it is because running is so much more difficult that swimmming. Now don't blast me for that yet, let me explain.
And it's true, after 45 minutes or so you enter a zone, some call it the 'runner's high', that you will never experience swimming. Again, I love swimming, the great feeling after a swim, lots of things about it, but it cannot compare to running. Also, swimming doesn't have that signature event like running has in the MARATHON.:thhbbb:
Good topic BTW.
I won't "blast" you but I will disagree.
If running is so much harder, why are there over 37,000 people running the NYC Marathon each year but if you totaled up every 10k swim race (the only event close in time/distance) in the country including age groupers you'd be lucky to have 5% of that. And that is only one marathon.
I don't think for a minute that running a marathon is easy, but you could much easier take a group of people and train them properly to run a marathon than to get them to finish an open water 10k or even one in the pool. Heck, just see how many people you could get to swim 100 yards without stopping.
As far as a runners high goes, if you were to train for a long distance swimming event, you will get the same high. I get it around 50 minutes depending on pace, and get it again at various points as time progresses. I've heard you can get it during any long aerobic activity.
I think when someone dislikes running, it is because running is so much more difficult that swimmming. Now don't blast me for that yet, let me explain.
And it's true, after 45 minutes or so you enter a zone, some call it the 'runner's high', that you will never experience swimming. Again, I love swimming, the great feeling after a swim, lots of things about it, but it cannot compare to running. Also, swimming doesn't have that signature event like running has in the MARATHON.:thhbbb:
Good topic BTW.
I won't "blast" you but I will disagree.
If running is so much harder, why are there over 37,000 people running the NYC Marathon each year but if you totaled up every 10k swim race (the only event close in time/distance) in the country including age groupers you'd be lucky to have 5% of that. And that is only one marathon.
I don't think for a minute that running a marathon is easy, but you could much easier take a group of people and train them properly to run a marathon than to get them to finish an open water 10k or even one in the pool. Heck, just see how many people you could get to swim 100 yards without stopping.
As far as a runners high goes, if you were to train for a long distance swimming event, you will get the same high. I get it around 50 minutes depending on pace, and get it again at various points as time progresses. I've heard you can get it during any long aerobic activity.
