) :shakeshead:
Looks to me the 1:4 ratio is a pretty good approximation, though. That would make a 10K swim roughly equivalent to a marathon (the same way a 24 mile race or a 29 mile race would be roughly equivalent to the marathon)
Mick
I've heard similar things, and I really would love it if my 5.25 mile swim time was in any way equivalent to my running marathon time. 3:25 for the swim, and my marathon goal is 4:15 (Boston qualifier for my age group).
However, unfortunately, I won't have a current pushing me through the marathon. On the upside, though, won't have chop or resulting seasickness. If my swim time were the equivalent of something four times longer running, that would be 26 miles. Add the .2 (not much more) and I'd have a time I now only daydream about (based on my running workouts these days) ... 3:27-3:28 (b/c that last tenth of a mile would HURT). I only WISH!
But here's the rub for me...Swimmer setting world record in, say, 200, is no more likely to set a world record in the 800 on the track than the runner who sets the track 800 record is to do the equivalent in a swim 200. Oh well... guess I'll have to hire someone to run my 3:28 marathon until I grow both wings and gills. ;)
) :shakeshead:
Looks to me the 1:4 ratio is a pretty good approximation, though. That would make a 10K swim roughly equivalent to a marathon (the same way a 24 mile race or a 29 mile race would be roughly equivalent to the marathon)
Mick
I've heard similar things, and I really would love it if my 5.25 mile swim time was in any way equivalent to my running marathon time. 3:25 for the swim, and my marathon goal is 4:15 (Boston qualifier for my age group).
However, unfortunately, I won't have a current pushing me through the marathon. On the upside, though, won't have chop or resulting seasickness. If my swim time were the equivalent of something four times longer running, that would be 26 miles. Add the .2 (not much more) and I'd have a time I now only daydream about (based on my running workouts these days) ... 3:27-3:28 (b/c that last tenth of a mile would HURT). I only WISH!
But here's the rub for me...Swimmer setting world record in, say, 200, is no more likely to set a world record in the 800 on the track than the runner who sets the track 800 record is to do the equivalent in a swim 200. Oh well... guess I'll have to hire someone to run my 3:28 marathon until I grow both wings and gills. ;)
