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!
So I finished the swim. It was ugly, lots of chop, and lots of vomiting by myself, which ended up causing me to disqualify myself, as I stood up on the bottom during a couple of my vomiting sessions. But it is done. My training, thanks to you guys, was spot on, and I was in about 6th place (per my kayaker) before I got sick. Didn’t finish so well, but I don’t know how to train for unexpected ingestion of massive amounts of salt water. It is what it is. I can now officially check that one off my bucket list, and go forward from here. Maybe a straight stretch down the beach, to avoid so much chop from here on, as I’ve always had a “delicate” stomach. Thanks again for the great advice, guys!
So I finished the swim. It was ugly, lots of chop, and lots of vomiting by myself, which ended up causing me to disqualify myself, as I stood up on the bottom during a couple of my vomiting sessions. But it is done. My training, thanks to you guys, was spot on, and I was in about 6th place (per my kayaker) before I got sick. Didn’t finish so well, but I don’t know how to train for unexpected ingestion of massive amounts of salt water. It is what it is. I can now officially check that one off my bucket list, and go forward from here. Maybe a straight stretch down the beach, to avoid so much chop from here on, as I’ve always had a “delicate” stomach. Thanks again for the great advice, guys!
