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'm new to OW, so don't quote me, but I think I read somewhere that what mileage you want to swim in an event, be training that same mileage over the course of your workout week (i.e., a 5-mile event, make sure you are swimming 5-miles over the course of your week). Not sure if that is accurate though. Right now I got a one-miler coming up on Saturday so I have altered my training to focus on one mile swims for about the last two weeks. Doing one mile each day, M-TH this week and tomorrow off.
I'm new to OW, so don't quote me, but I think I read somewhere that what mileage you want to swim in an event, be training that same mileage over the course of your workout week (i.e., a 5-mile event, make sure you are swimming 5-miles over the course of your week). Not sure if that is accurate though. Right now I got a one-miler coming up on Saturday so I have altered my training to focus on one mile swims for about the last two weeks. Doing one mile each day, M-TH this week and tomorrow off.
