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 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.
I agree with the long pool swim being more painful than the same distance in an OWS. OW swimmers will often say that training in a pool must be easier because you can rest on the turns, but I'm always more tired after a 3K or a 5K in the pool than am after a 3K or a 5K in a lake. I think water temp has something to do with it. The Y pool I swim in has temps ranging from 79 to 85. The other day I swam a 3600 in what had to have been 85 degree water, and I almost couldn't finish it.
The colder the better for me.
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.
I agree with the long pool swim being more painful than the same distance in an OWS. OW swimmers will often say that training in a pool must be easier because you can rest on the turns, but I'm always more tired after a 3K or a 5K in the pool than am after a 3K or a 5K in a lake. I think water temp has something to do with it. The Y pool I swim in has temps ranging from 79 to 85. The other day I swam a 3600 in what had to have been 85 degree water, and I almost couldn't finish it.
The colder the better for me.
