Hi all,
I need some advice on where to find complete trainings for a 36km open water course.
We are a group of 4 swimmers (25~34 years old), and we are planning to cross the Rio de la Plata River, from Colonia (Uruguay) to Buenos Aires (Argentina) next feb/2004.
In average, we are swimming between 20/30kms a week, always in closed pools. It's too cold to jump into the sea yet...
Any tips, help or links will be highly appreciated.
thanks in advance.
M.
While you are waiting to get a copy of Open Water Swimming, I suggest that you look at the Open Water Swimming Clinic Manual, Prepared by members of the USMS Long Distance Committee. A copy can be found at www.usms.org/longdist/owclinicman.pdf
Marcia Cleveland, Peter Crumbine, Sally Dillon, Randy Nutt and others did a tremendous job with this manual. And while it was designed to be a guide for people running open water clinics, it contains lots of good basic information for open water swimmers.
Based on the additional information you provided. I would suggest that as soon as it gets warm enough, you get out and start doing some open water training to get used to the lack of walls and practice open water navigation. Since it looks like you will be swimming for about 9 to 11 hours for your 36K (based on your 30 minute pace) I would also suggest that by mid-January you work your way up to open water training swims of at least 3 hours, preferably 4 to 5 hours. And try to get in a couple of these long swims each week. Make sure to incorporate your feeding (both the food and the schedule) in these training swims.
There are hundreds of other things to suggest and consider, however at this point I would suggest you check out the clinic manual and see what additional questions this raises.
While you are waiting to get a copy of Open Water Swimming, I suggest that you look at the Open Water Swimming Clinic Manual, Prepared by members of the USMS Long Distance Committee. A copy can be found at www.usms.org/longdist/owclinicman.pdf
Marcia Cleveland, Peter Crumbine, Sally Dillon, Randy Nutt and others did a tremendous job with this manual. And while it was designed to be a guide for people running open water clinics, it contains lots of good basic information for open water swimmers.
Based on the additional information you provided. I would suggest that as soon as it gets warm enough, you get out and start doing some open water training to get used to the lack of walls and practice open water navigation. Since it looks like you will be swimming for about 9 to 11 hours for your 36K (based on your 30 minute pace) I would also suggest that by mid-January you work your way up to open water training swims of at least 3 hours, preferably 4 to 5 hours. And try to get in a couple of these long swims each week. Make sure to incorporate your feeding (both the food and the schedule) in these training swims.
There are hundreds of other things to suggest and consider, however at this point I would suggest you check out the clinic manual and see what additional questions this raises.
