Hi, all. I'm interested to know: How long distance can you swim in 1 hour, comfortably, with or without short rests? (By "comfortably" I mean it's not like you are racing badly. So I think it's not like the postal swim.) It doesn't matter whether it's in a pool or in open water (obviously in OW you can't rest).
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The reason I was asking this question is that I am a cozy turtle, crawling just a little over 2000 yards in an hour .
Actually it depends on what you are doing, I thought you were asking how much distance I can swim for hour non-stop as fast as I can.
Sometimes if I'm doing speed work with very long rest, I probably don't do a lot more than 2000 meters, so it depends
So it seems different pools, and getting used to each one, have apparently different effect on our swimming?
of course, the closer the wall the less strokes you take, you get less tired,
but a good swimmer is good in any pool, just look at the best guys that compete in a 50 meter pool, when they compete in a 25 yard pool, they place in very similar positions, not equal (some guys only shine in 25 meter pools) but very similar
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The reason I was asking this question is that I am a cozy turtle, crawling just a little over 2000 yards in an hour .
Actually it depends on what you are doing, I thought you were asking how much distance I can swim for hour non-stop as fast as I can.
Sometimes if I'm doing speed work with very long rest, I probably don't do a lot more than 2000 meters, so it depends
So it seems different pools, and getting used to each one, have apparently different effect on our swimming?
of course, the closer the wall the less strokes you take, you get less tired,
but a good swimmer is good in any pool, just look at the best guys that compete in a 50 meter pool, when they compete in a 25 yard pool, they place in very similar positions, not equal (some guys only shine in 25 meter pools) but very similar
