I have entered the Swim Around Lido Key event for April 14th. It is about a 7mile swim. The longest I’ve done previous is 3 miles, and that’s sorta like a long workout - took me 74 minutes. Seven miles is a bit longer and I’m wishing for some friendly advice.
Would anyone like to help me in my training for this? I’m wondering about the last week, or “taper week”.
I don’t think I should cut back to much less than 5-6000/day, but maybe I’m wrong here. I’m getting in 8-10,000 on Saturdays now, and have to limit my weekday swims to 5-6000 as it is. I just figure I want to be rested, but don’t want to over do the resting.
Thanks in advance!
Thanks for the additional info.
If it were me, I would keep your volume where it is - except for April 7. Assuming your weekday volume is about 3500 high quality out of 5,000, I would maintain that % of quality swimming until April 4-7. At that point, I would reduce the amount of high quality by about 300-400/day until you are at 1500 out of 5,000.
I suspect you are like me in that I enjoy training hard and the idea of tapering volume AND intensity is mentally hard. I have tried long tapers and short drop-dead tapers. I find that keeping the volume up with reduced intensity works very well for open water swims.
Good Luck!
Paul
Thanks for the additional info.
If it were me, I would keep your volume where it is - except for April 7. Assuming your weekday volume is about 3500 high quality out of 5,000, I would maintain that % of quality swimming until April 4-7. At that point, I would reduce the amount of high quality by about 300-400/day until you are at 1500 out of 5,000.
I suspect you are like me in that I enjoy training hard and the idea of tapering volume AND intensity is mentally hard. I have tried long tapers and short drop-dead tapers. I find that keeping the volume up with reduced intensity works very well for open water swims.
Good Luck!
Paul
