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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Whatever you wear, don't wear something too constricting. I had to stop my attempt at the 2003 hour swim because I was wearing a really tight suit and could not breathe well. Of course it didn't help that I was swimming in a hot pool either.
Puff - Thanks for the compliment. I'll be routing for you to set a record on this one! Maybe in 2010, I can work up to doing it again.
Fort - It's no worse than running 10 miles non-stop which I'm sure you've done. You could break it up into challenging smaller sets with little rest just to see how much yardage you could squeeze out in an hour.
Or 60 50's on 1:00 OK you know your yardage but at least you're in!
Whatever you wear, don't wear something too constricting. I had to stop my attempt at the 2003 hour swim because I was wearing a really tight suit and could not breathe well. Of course it didn't help that I was swimming in a hot pool either.
Puff - Thanks for the compliment. I'll be routing for you to set a record on this one! Maybe in 2010, I can work up to doing it again.
Fort - It's no worse than running 10 miles non-stop which I'm sure you've done. You could break it up into challenging smaller sets with little rest just to see how much yardage you could squeeze out in an hour.
Or 60 50's on 1:00 OK you know your yardage but at least you're in!
