Out of curiosity, how much time does an average open water swimmer spend training each week?
And what distance events do most average open water swimmers participate?
On a weekly basis, I'm grateful when I can swim three times for an hour and fifteen minutes (4500 m). Last summer I did my first two open water events, 1.5 and 1.0 miles. I'm wondering if a longer event would be reasonable? But spending less time with my family, or at work, or asleep, are not options.
What's your approach?
I just love doing open water swims. It's a great excuse to spend a day at the beach, lake, where ever with the family and friends, have a picnic and to top it off do what I love doing - swimming!!!!!!
I spend nearly every second w/end in summer participating in one open water event or another and my training program is identical to yours - 3 times a week and my workouts vary between 3000 - 4500m.
With this I swim 2 - 4 km events. I do one 8km event at the end of June and for this I swim 4-5 kms workouts a couple of weeks
before the race.
This works for me and I think if you're training over 3k each workout you should have NO trouble doing longer events - of course what you want to achieve in each event is another matter!!
Cheers.
I just love doing open water swims. It's a great excuse to spend a day at the beach, lake, where ever with the family and friends, have a picnic and to top it off do what I love doing - swimming!!!!!!
I spend nearly every second w/end in summer participating in one open water event or another and my training program is identical to yours - 3 times a week and my workouts vary between 3000 - 4500m.
With this I swim 2 - 4 km events. I do one 8km event at the end of June and for this I swim 4-5 kms workouts a couple of weeks
before the race.
This works for me and I think if you're training over 3k each workout you should have NO trouble doing longer events - of course what you want to achieve in each event is another matter!!
Cheers.
