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.
Anyone swim this event at a quick pace. . . say 1:10 per 100 or faster - AND you felt fine afterward? I hope to feel better at the end this time around!
The two times I've done it freestyle have been very very painful. What is strange is that I've never felt as badly in a 5K OW swim, which is approximately the same duration.
For me the problem was that I would look at the clock at each 100 and try to be too ambitious. But all my benchmarks are for shorter distances, and the anvil would start to fall at about the 20-30 min mark.
The one time I felt good was when I did it backstroke (part of a medley relay: one person for each stroke. It was a girls vs guys relay thing, with lots of trash-talking). I told the freestyler on my relay that I would pace him for the first 1000 -- his free is usually a little slower than my backstroke in practice, and I could easily see the pace clock while swimming backstroke.
So the first 1000 was long and controlled for me, then I just gradually picked up the tempo on each successive 1000. (Plus, it was outdoors and I could look up at the sky for the whole swim...). This type of strategy is definitely the way to swim it, I think: you start out slower but end up much stronger at the end.
Anyone swim this event at a quick pace. . . say 1:10 per 100 or faster - AND you felt fine afterward? I hope to feel better at the end this time around!
The two times I've done it freestyle have been very very painful. What is strange is that I've never felt as badly in a 5K OW swim, which is approximately the same duration.
For me the problem was that I would look at the clock at each 100 and try to be too ambitious. But all my benchmarks are for shorter distances, and the anvil would start to fall at about the 20-30 min mark.
The one time I felt good was when I did it backstroke (part of a medley relay: one person for each stroke. It was a girls vs guys relay thing, with lots of trash-talking). I told the freestyler on my relay that I would pace him for the first 1000 -- his free is usually a little slower than my backstroke in practice, and I could easily see the pace clock while swimming backstroke.
So the first 1000 was long and controlled for me, then I just gradually picked up the tempo on each successive 1000. (Plus, it was outdoors and I could look up at the sky for the whole swim...). This type of strategy is definitely the way to swim it, I think: you start out slower but end up much stronger at the end.
