I would love to see what kind of yardage some of you are doing out there. Just ball park numbers. I realize there is much more to swimming than how many yards one does, and training for different events entails differences in yardages, but I would still like to see what everyone is doing so I can know where I fall within the "norm". Also, if anyone knows, I would like to know what some of the masters All American's do as far as yardage. I see times for Jeff Commins in the *** and IM events and wonder how much he must train.
And also show you the true outliers! This year's champ bested 2000 miles for the year (2000.32 to be exact). With 366 days in 2008, that's an average of 5.5 miles per day or over 67,000 yards per week. Wow.
That's...sick. If you use the standard 4x multiplier effect for converting swimming to running, that's close to 22 miles running per day, or nearly a marathon, every day of the year.
I think that many of us swimmers have obsessive tendencies, but this seems to me to be bordering on the faint cusp of pathology. Assuming he/she can hold a 25 minute pace per mile, and swims the workouts straight through without intervals, that's 2 hours and 17.5 minutes per day, seven days a week, in the pool.
Perhaps a little Prozac added into the filter system could be beneficial.
For what it's worth, I swam 406.7 miles last year. By defnition, this is the optimal distance. Anything over this is obsessional. Anything less than this is laziness.
Note: for those who want to use my swimming as a way of planning a neither-pathological-nor-lazy regimen for themselves, please understand that optimum distance is subject to change this year depending on what I do or fail to do!
And also show you the true outliers! This year's champ bested 2000 miles for the year (2000.32 to be exact). With 366 days in 2008, that's an average of 5.5 miles per day or over 67,000 yards per week. Wow.
That's...sick. If you use the standard 4x multiplier effect for converting swimming to running, that's close to 22 miles running per day, or nearly a marathon, every day of the year.
I think that many of us swimmers have obsessive tendencies, but this seems to me to be bordering on the faint cusp of pathology. Assuming he/she can hold a 25 minute pace per mile, and swims the workouts straight through without intervals, that's 2 hours and 17.5 minutes per day, seven days a week, in the pool.
Perhaps a little Prozac added into the filter system could be beneficial.
For what it's worth, I swam 406.7 miles last year. By defnition, this is the optimal distance. Anything over this is obsessional. Anything less than this is laziness.
Note: for those who want to use my swimming as a way of planning a neither-pathological-nor-lazy regimen for themselves, please understand that optimum distance is subject to change this year depending on what I do or fail to do!
