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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Its been a while, but I used to wear an Ironman watch. You could set it to beep on a time interval. Annoying, I agree, (and possibly not legal?) but if you know you are trying to hold, say 200's on a 2:20 pace, you can set it to beep every 2:20. You keep swimming and see where the beep happens.
I found that if I set it at a pace just slower than I could go, I'd start progressing against the beep, which was a good mental boost. The focus on the intervals seemed to make the elapsed time go faster.
Its been a while, but I used to wear an Ironman watch. You could set it to beep on a time interval. Annoying, I agree, (and possibly not legal?) but if you know you are trying to hold, say 200's on a 2:20 pace, you can set it to beep every 2:20. You keep swimming and see where the beep happens.
I found that if I set it at a pace just slower than I could go, I'd start progressing against the beep, which was a good mental boost. The focus on the intervals seemed to make the elapsed time go faster.
