Longest you ever swam

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What is the longest you have ever swam in a single workout or practice? For me, it was 5700 yards. I'm sure a lot of you have some pretty impressive totals:)
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  • back in my high school days when paul bergen coached me we'd have saturday practices that went over 10,000 meters I remember one time when we ran 10 miles then did a 2 1/2 hour swim work out, I was bonking with 30 minutes to go we sometimes did 10k's for time I think I did a few 8k practices with Eddie Reese Think most of those were 6 - 7k Andy Schmidt, one of my UT team mates said when he was training at mission viejo mark schubert had him and jesse vassallo do 100 x 100 LCM free on 1:10 and they made it I know erik vendt & Klete Keller have done some insane distance sets stuff like 20 or 30 1000's My buddy Lynne Smith who usually swims next to my lane swam the english channel and Catalina, she said Catalina was harder, 22 miles water temp was 61 - 66 no wet suit.
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  • back in my high school days when paul bergen coached me we'd have saturday practices that went over 10,000 meters I remember one time when we ran 10 miles then did a 2 1/2 hour swim work out, I was bonking with 30 minutes to go we sometimes did 10k's for time I think I did a few 8k practices with Eddie Reese Think most of those were 6 - 7k Andy Schmidt, one of my UT team mates said when he was training at mission viejo mark schubert had him and jesse vassallo do 100 x 100 LCM free on 1:10 and they made it I know erik vendt & Klete Keller have done some insane distance sets stuff like 20 or 30 1000's My buddy Lynne Smith who usually swims next to my lane swam the english channel and Catalina, she said Catalina was harder, 22 miles water temp was 61 - 66 no wet suit.
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