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The Distance Lane

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D Men & Women Unite you're a sick bunch The longer the better your sprints are 200's, 400's, 500's, 800's, & 1000's You barely get going on 1,500's & 1,650's You love 2Ks, 3K's, 5K's, 10K's, & some of you love 25K's. Talk to each other, I have no clue what you do over there. What did you do in practice today? the breastroke lane The Middle Distance Lane The Backstroke Lane The Butterfly Lane The SDK Lane The Taper Lane The Distance Lane The IM Lane The Sprint Free Lane The Pool Deck
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  • monday was distance day: ... the goal was to work on switching from aerobic swimming to fast and back to aerobic (no breaks until after the first set before the kick started) This is a more formal, pool-oriented way to get at an approach frequently recommended for OW: pick up the pace (sprint*) for 1/4 to 1/3 of the total time. Different applications of the principle are possible: for a shortish, 1- or 2-mile swim, 9 sprint strokes, 30 regular, say; but for a Channel crossing it might be sprint 15 minutes out of the hour. It helps to be able to turn on and off the sprint pace for long pool swims as well. I did two consecutive 1000 yds and used the sprint technique mindfully on the second (totally forgot about it on the first!), dropping my time by 5%, even though I was tired. *Note: "Sprint" in such cases probably means something different to distance people. For example, we still breathe. :)
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  • monday was distance day: ... the goal was to work on switching from aerobic swimming to fast and back to aerobic (no breaks until after the first set before the kick started) This is a more formal, pool-oriented way to get at an approach frequently recommended for OW: pick up the pace (sprint*) for 1/4 to 1/3 of the total time. Different applications of the principle are possible: for a shortish, 1- or 2-mile swim, 9 sprint strokes, 30 regular, say; but for a Channel crossing it might be sprint 15 minutes out of the hour. It helps to be able to turn on and off the sprint pace for long pool swims as well. I did two consecutive 1000 yds and used the sprint technique mindfully on the second (totally forgot about it on the first!), dropping my time by 5%, even though I was tired. *Note: "Sprint" in such cases probably means something different to distance people. For example, we still breathe. :)
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