I found this on the Utah Masters website homepage. Amazing what they did, although a bit excessive and crazy too. That much strain on the body cannot be that good for a person either. Was it really worth it?
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Amazing Utah Swim - 50,000 yd. SWIM in one day
For several weeks, Will Reeves (a 57 year old diehard distance swimmer), had it in his head to swim 50,000 yards (30.3) miles in one day. On Jan 17, 2011 it happened. Believe it or not, there are witnesses. Mori Paulsen, (a 51 year old extreme fitness kind of guy), ended up having the holiday off from work and decided to join Will. They started at 7:15 a.m. Monday morning and finished at 9:00 p.m. They swam (25) 2,000 yard sets with an average 2-3 minute break between the 2,000s. At about 30,000 yards they both hit the wall. Will was getting sick and Mori started having the shakes and cramps in his right triceps. In pain, they both persisted and decided to shoot for 40,000. When they reached 40,000, the physical pain to call it quits dissipated somewhat and they pushed on to the 50,000.goal. It took a couple of days to recover. Mori is still feeling soreness in his triceps. Congratulations on the swim!!
I would think you'd cool off too much with five- to seven-minute breaks.
The website says nothing about how they managed calorie and fluid intake. When I've done the 10k postal swim I've taken calories and liquids every 2000-3000 meters. (I assume that since they were "diehard distance swimmer"s they had appropriate intake plans and had suitably loaded up on carbohydrates if they were into that sort of thing.)
Also, this would seem to be an event" which would be better done LCM (999 turns) than SCM or SCY (1999 turns), even considering the extra distance of swimming LCM over SCY. I know my calves would give out with all those push offs anyway.
I would think you'd cool off too much with five- to seven-minute breaks.
The website says nothing about how they managed calorie and fluid intake. When I've done the 10k postal swim I've taken calories and liquids every 2000-3000 meters. (I assume that since they were "diehard distance swimmer"s they had appropriate intake plans and had suitably loaded up on carbohydrates if they were into that sort of thing.)
Also, this would seem to be an event" which would be better done LCM (999 turns) than SCM or SCY (1999 turns), even considering the extra distance of swimming LCM over SCY. I know my calves would give out with all those push offs anyway.
