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:)
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.
Ande, I didn't know you swam for Paul. I swam for the masters team in Oregon when he was coaching the age group team. He used to stop us to tell us a joke. Great man.
As for the question, a few months ago I did 6300 in a 2 hour practice with the age group team. That's the most I've done at once that I can remember.
I did this one 2 summers ago while I was over in Qatar took me about a month and a half to build up to it.....it was in a 25 meter pool.
Warm-Up
500 Swim/300 Kick/200 Drill
Warm-Up Set
25/50/75/100/100/75/50/25 based on :30 Free
20x25 IM@:45
25/50/75/100/100/75/50/25 Kick based on :30
Swim
5x100 Free @2:00
10x50 Free @1:00
5x100 IM @2:15
10x50 Fly/Free @1:15
5x100 Pull @1:40
10x50 Pull @ :50
5x100 IM @2:15
10x50 *** @1:15
5x100 Kick @2:00
10x50 Pull @ :40
5x100 Free @1:45
10x50 Free/Fast @1:00
500 Free
20x25 Fly/***@ :45
12x25 Free @ :30
Cool Down
200
10,000 Meters
whoa erik wins so far
When you are young and dumb you do silly things - so we thought it would cool to swim a Marathon in a single day. We did divide it into 3 workouts -- going 12,500 between 5:30 and 8:30; 15,000 between 11 and 2:30 and another 15K in the evening - 3 out of 5 people made it ....
16,000 in a 4 hour swim (net time) with a quick stop for a drink every 1/2 hour.
-LBJ
What kind of drinks would you have to take for that mind numbing experience?
When you are young and dumb you do silly things - so we thought it would cool to swim a Marathon in a single day. We did divide it into 3 workouts -- going 12,500 between 5:30 and 8:30; 15,000 between 11 and 2:30 and another 15K in the evening - 3 out of 5 people made it ....
