OK I got in. The most I have swam is 2 miles open water. I swim about 10K yards a week with 2 masters workouts a week. Now what. This race is 4.4 miles.
The race date is June 8. I think I can answer my own question... double (or triple!) my weekly yardage, hold yourself back on the start, finally, grit your teeth and "enjoy" gutting it out.
Ideas for training?:confused:
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Paul,
Sounds like your plan is similar to mine. I'm planning my ramp up at the 2 month point. I'm currently doing 15K yards/week as base. At 2 months prior, I'll up the yards by 1,500 over the course of the week topping out at something that gets me close to 5K yrds on two consecutive Saturdays ending 2 weeks prior with a one week taper at the end. Likely I'll add 250 to my Monday, Wed, and Sat (my long slow day) and keep Tue and Thur for some interval work. For alternating hard and easy weeks I'm planning on adjusting the type of intervals on Tues and Thur.
Paul you need to keep in mind I'm new to swimming (only been doing this 2 years) and am attempting to use my runner's marathon training formula for this one. I'm pretty confident the training principles are the same. However, I'm here on this forum to glean all the advice that the more experienced folks have to offer. When I ran marathons, I NEVER trained at the 26.2 distance. My longest runs were 19 -21 miles and I only did 2-3 of those during the build up period. I ran them all under 3 hours and never had a problem with hitting any walls (doesn't mean I didn't learn that lesson during training runs though). I gotta say that this is new ground and a different sport so if you learn something or hear something intriguing, please share.
My most important goal is to conquer this sucker. My biggest fear is having to be pulled out.
Paul,
Sounds like your plan is similar to mine. I'm planning my ramp up at the 2 month point. I'm currently doing 15K yards/week as base. At 2 months prior, I'll up the yards by 1,500 over the course of the week topping out at something that gets me close to 5K yrds on two consecutive Saturdays ending 2 weeks prior with a one week taper at the end. Likely I'll add 250 to my Monday, Wed, and Sat (my long slow day) and keep Tue and Thur for some interval work. For alternating hard and easy weeks I'm planning on adjusting the type of intervals on Tues and Thur.
Paul you need to keep in mind I'm new to swimming (only been doing this 2 years) and am attempting to use my runner's marathon training formula for this one. I'm pretty confident the training principles are the same. However, I'm here on this forum to glean all the advice that the more experienced folks have to offer. When I ran marathons, I NEVER trained at the 26.2 distance. My longest runs were 19 -21 miles and I only did 2-3 of those during the build up period. I ran them all under 3 hours and never had a problem with hitting any walls (doesn't mean I didn't learn that lesson during training runs though). I gotta say that this is new ground and a different sport so if you learn something or hear something intriguing, please share.
My most important goal is to conquer this sucker. My biggest fear is having to be pulled out.
