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.
There is a guy on my team that has been out for pretty much the whole year (a new baby at home had eaten up all his free time). He showed up at practice today to do the hour swim and show his team solidarity. Let me reiterate--he hasn't trained in almost a full year. When I left practice he was 45 minutes in and holding his pace very well. I was completely blown away by this. I'm pretty sure if I took the better part of a year off I would NEVER be able to keep going for a full hour. My hat is off to this guy, who is not only a dedicated father and husband, but a heck of a teammate.
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There is a guy on my team that has been out for pretty much the whole year (a new baby at home had eaten up all his free time). He showed up at practice today to do the hour swim and show his team solidarity. Let me reiterate--he hasn't trained in almost a full year. When I left practice he was 45 minutes in and holding his pace very well. I was completely blown away by this. I'm pretty sure if I took the better part of a year off I would NEVER be able to keep going for a full hour. My hat is off to this guy, who is not only a dedicated father and husband, but a heck of a teammate.
:notworthy:
