10,000 Meter Swim

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:57:22 GMT

SKO, If you did that by yourself, you have my TOTAL respect. I had about 6 lane buddies and we were mainly cheering on a few of the slower ones as the morning progressed. I do not know if I could do that by my lonesome. Rob

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:23:21 GMT

You've got bragging rights as far as I am concerned. Good job. Rob

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:27:32 GMT

yeah i was all alone except for the 3 or 4 people who hopped in and out of the lane through my journey. Having others doing it too would prob have helped the boredom factor quite a bit. About 2k in i was bored.. about 6k in i wanted to stop, but had already invested so much time and effort i figured i might as well stick it out.

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:14:39 GMT

I'll gear them up for this for next week! Thanks!

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:12:02 GMT

Shamboola i blame you for the 2.5 hours i spent in the pool sunday morning before sitting down to watch foorball. But it was a nice thing to challenge myself with seeing how i hate distance and the way i constructed the set included lots of 500's and 200's.

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

the17thman — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:22:07 GMT

That so sounds like a great challenge! I'd love to do a 10,000 yard or meter workout sometime.

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

SLOmmafan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:06:56 GMT

I am generally "over it" by around 7000 m in to the set, but the 10,000 is a great goal workout. Two hours in the pool seems good to me.

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:36:18 GMT

Andy, Here is the 10,000 meter swim as best as I can reconstruct: 10 x 100 - swim - warm up 2 x 500 - swim - long and strong 1 x 500 pull - buoy no paddles 3 x 400 - descnd 1 to 3 6 x 100 - kick - 2 fly, 2 back. 2 free 1 x 400 pull - buoy no paddles - negative split 4 x 300 - swim - #1 do middle 100 back. #2 do middle 100 ***, #3 and 4 all free. 6 x 100 - kick all free 1 x 300 - pull buoy and paddles 5 x 200 - swim 6 x 100 - kick 1 x 200 - pull buoy and paddles 6 x 100 - swim 2 x 200 - swim 4 x 50 - swim Then, eat a huge breakfast. Rob

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:44:01 GMT

Andy, It actually was not that bad. We started at 5:30 a.m. so we were halfway through it before we were awake. I ate a power bar during a kicking set after about an hour and sipped Gatorade throughout the swim. We started with 10 100s, then 2 500s, some kicking, 4 300s, 5 200s, more kicking and so on. I felt the worst at midpoint and then just ignored it and suddenly our coach was telling us we were at 9,000. The key for me was not knowing our yardage so the 9,000 came up quickly. I go 5 days a week and swim for one hour and do about 2,500-2,800 meters. So, not a heavy load but still enough to provide a base for the 10k. My advice is to not overthink it. Too much preparation and planning just creates more nerves. I just said the heck with it and decided to do it a few days before and that worked well for me. I took the next day off and was back in the pool on Friday. We were doing sprints and my tank got empty pretty quickly, but I felt pretty good, all things considered. Rob Thanks for the advice, Rob! I think I'll give the workout to my swimmers to see how they react first. I have two distance freestylists and I would be interested to see how they handle something like that...

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:02:05 GMT

RE: 10,000 Meter Swim

Former Member — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:47:48 GMT

Rob, congrats on the 10k swim! I have to say that if I ever pursued something like that I would absolutely have to ice my shoulders for a good week! I'm intrigued now, though, to try it! So thank you for the inspiration!