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.
Did one long ago at w Austin Sports Psyche. Got 4950 done according to the guy counting. I could have sworn I was at 5000. Never again, never again.
than fun huh? i'm giving myself another month to get fired up for this.
I may do it this year. I would probably do it in thirds, like 1500 yards, rest until :20 mark, repeat 3 times. Or if I swam continuously, I'd throw in a 50 of easy backstroke every 1000 or so.
This is my first, I've also made it a fundraiser for Living Water International.
Having people sponsor as many laps as they wish, or $1.00 or 50 cents a lap.
I did a 30 min. swim last week, didn't count my laps, I loose count after about 800 yrds or so.
Doing a 45 min swim today, in 500yd. sets just to help see the lap count.
I have my mp3 charge with my favorites to help with the swim.
This will be Santa Clarita Masters first one hour postal. Loosley organized as a group event Jan 25th. These comments have been helpful. We have about 10 swimmers planning to do this. Have any of you ever had a person on deck giving a 10 min. signal. Such holding up a kick board while on deck every 10 mins.?
Have any of you ever had a person on deck giving a 10 min. signal. Such holding up a kick board while on deck every 10 mins.?
If I end up doing it, I'm just going to wear my watch to keep track of an approximate time. I don't have to count, so I'll have to be doing something...besides swimming, of course.
As some have pointed out -- you don't have to swim it continuously. You can do it as a set.
You can do 500's on a pace. 500's on 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 10:00, whatever, depending on your speed.
-Rick
I don't think I'm doing to bad,
Last week I swam 3000m in 45 mins. I did it in set of 500's resting about 10 secs more or less just to move the lane disk. ( I used as my counter)
Today I did a 500 w-up, then a 500, 100 kick, 400, 100k, 300, 100k, 200, 100k, 100, 100k
resting about 20-30 sec between each. Then did a 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 pull.
with about 20-30 sec rest between. It took just a little over an hour, didn't really see what time I started. I swam med, pace on purpose, just wanted to concentrate on distance not speed.
I figure I should reach my goal of 4200yds. hopefully more.
For the one hour swim does anyone do a warm up first - or do you just get in and start swimming?
