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.
The one hour postal is the most painful (physical/mental) thing I do. I have done it that last several years. It probably would not be so painful in my youth, but when you only do about 20-40 minutes of swimming/day, it kinda leaves a mark.
Pace is key as it is hard to ramp up after you get settled in a pace. On the other hand, go out too hard, and you will cry for your mommy the last 4000 yds.
I always wear a fastskin legskin--it is a national championship with usually about 2,000 per year doing it. Strangely my legs are the first to go (even though I am dragging the things) so I am under the (false) assumption the legskin will delay the inevitable cramps.
Make sure you have a rabid counter because if someone interrupts a postal swim at say, the 50 minute mark, it is grounds to...go postal.
No cap, no break, and a lot of ice afterward.:bed:
The one hour postal is the most painful (physical/mental) thing I do. I have done it that last several years. It probably would not be so painful in my youth, but when you only do about 20-40 minutes of swimming/day, it kinda leaves a mark.
Pace is key as it is hard to ramp up after you get settled in a pace. On the other hand, go out too hard, and you will cry for your mommy the last 4000 yds.
I always wear a fastskin legskin--it is a national championship with usually about 2,000 per year doing it. Strangely my legs are the first to go (even though I am dragging the things) so I am under the (false) assumption the legskin will delay the inevitable cramps.
Make sure you have a rabid counter because if someone interrupts a postal swim at say, the 50 minute mark, it is grounds to...go postal.
No cap, no break, and a lot of ice afterward.:bed:
