How do you train for the one hour postal?
Currently I swim about 2100 - 2200yds 4 -days a week - 3 days coached w/ age group kids
1 day same yardage but not coached.
I'm thinking about staying late during my coached days and swim an extra 500 -1000 yds after practice. My thinking is this extra yardage is about what I can do to be able to get home and get dinner on the table. Then increase my 1 day not coached to about 3000 yds and do more distance swims. My personal goal is to do any where from 4200 - 4500 in the postal.
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How do you train for the one hour postal?
Like anything else, there's more than one right answer.
The team I'm currently training with does a series of swims (at different workouts throughout the month) starting in October as follows:
Oct: 15 minute swim, count yardage fro average 100 pace.
Sets of 100's using your average 100 pace +5, until the interval is missed.
Nov: 30 minute swim, count yardage for average 100 pace. Same 100 sets as above, using the new 100 pace +5-10 sec (hopefully, the same or faster as previous month).
Dec: 45 minute swim, same as above. 100s same as above.
Jan: 1-hour postal swim.
To make it fun, there's a contest for people who make it to practice for all four of the long swims. The swimmer who is closest to their average yardage gets a prize (i.e. swimmer does 4000 yds for the 1-hour swim. If averaged 1000 yds per 15 minutes in the other three practice swims, you are right on target and get a prize).
How do you train for the one hour postal?
Like anything else, there's more than one right answer.
The team I'm currently training with does a series of swims (at different workouts throughout the month) starting in October as follows:
Oct: 15 minute swim, count yardage fro average 100 pace.
Sets of 100's using your average 100 pace +5, until the interval is missed.
Nov: 30 minute swim, count yardage for average 100 pace. Same 100 sets as above, using the new 100 pace +5-10 sec (hopefully, the same or faster as previous month).
Dec: 45 minute swim, same as above. 100s same as above.
Jan: 1-hour postal swim.
To make it fun, there's a contest for people who make it to practice for all four of the long swims. The swimmer who is closest to their average yardage gets a prize (i.e. swimmer does 4000 yds for the 1-hour swim. If averaged 1000 yds per 15 minutes in the other three practice swims, you are right on target and get a prize).
