How often do you swim more than 1500m NON-STOP?

I raced a 1500 in early June. Once a week for the four weeks prior to the race, I warmed up and then swam a 1500 straight for time. I did this to get my body and my mind used to the distance. Now in Open Water season I go that distance and more all the time but in lakes not pools, somehow for me anyway, it's mentally easier to go distance in openwater. Are you doing the Aquaman tonight?

Your question is about pool swimming or swimming?:fish2: Good question, why not vote swimming, and tell us details if it makes difference either way? I would love to know both.:) Most people I see at my pool just swim back and forth at the same pace for a certain period of time. They jump in, don't warm up, swim back and forth and leave. How boring is that:yawn: That's also what I observed. The point is that many of them appear not to have good swimming forms, and it seems to take them 30-40 strokes across 25m. The longer distances are at an easier pace, and I try and work on a number of things. Swimming-related or not? ;) I'm surprised to know most of you don't do nonstop long distance often. (But didn't many say they had various ways to make it not boring, like MP3?) Does that mean you don't have do practice that in the pool in order to swim long distance in open water, since I believe some of you do OW? Just the 400m, 800m practice can help you swim far in OW?

during OW season i will swim a minimum of two miles non-stop at least 3 times per week. 1 day per week, i will swim a between 4 and 6 miles with brief interuptions to feed. (not including race day). in the winter, a standard warm-up for me is at least 1000 yards.

My team does quite a few 20 and 30 minute swims in December-January in preparation for the hour swim. Many of those are close to or in excess of 1500 meters. We don't train that way otherwise during the year. It's not fun, but we work hard at maintaining our intended hour swim pace, and that can help pass the time.

I may have gone further a time or two by going crooked in a one mile ocean swim, but it was never my intent. But today, I swam 1200 yards non-stop, my pool record for at least the last ten years.

How often do you swim long distance non-stop, say 1500m or more? How often is good? I try to plan for myself :) (Also, when doing that, do you swim only freestyle or sometimes change to different strokes?) Your question is about pool swimming or swimming?:fish2:

I voted rarely since it's not something I do in the pool or even in the lake for training. but I have swum 3x10,000yds once each year of college swimming (around 2:12-2:20 swim time) and two years ago I swam 6350m in 90 minutes. but in my weekly training I don't swim much more than 400's and it's usually not more than 6-10 x 200 sets. two weeks ago I swam 50km in 7 days, but it was with twoadays in a lake, and we usaully stopped ever 1000m or so to regroup and then swim another 1000m or so.

I raced a 1500 in early June. Once a week for the four weeks prior to the race, I warmed up and then swam a 1500 straight for time. I did this to get my body and my mind used to the distance. Now in Open Water season I go that distance and more all the time but in lakes not pools, somehow for me anyway, it's mentally easier to go distance in openwater.

I used to do an hour swim once per week. I got over that. I'm going to do a few 1,500's before nats mostly since I have never raced in a long course pool. I just want to get used to the flow of the race. I really like to swim an hour or more all free without stopping; it can almost be trance-like. The problem is that it doesn't help you improve your speed, stroke, or conditioning much. I'd call it more a mind exercise. :2cents:

Right now I do a 3K, 4K, or 5K non-stop about 2-3 times per week (all freestyle) which is pretty funny considering that when I swam age group, I moaned at anything over 200. I am learning that it is much easier to do those non-stoppers in LC pools. 25 yards is hardly enough to get any momentum going before I have to stop and turn. This is also funny because in my youth I HATED LC season. Make it an outdoor LC pool or a lake, and my only limit is the time I have available to swim. On the other days, I mix up strokes with shorter distances - usually nothing over a 500.