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:
Let see you only do 10,000 yards a week which is not quite 6 miles. So you could do this swim on what you do, but you will hurt like crazy and at the end may think you should have swam more and why are you swimming this.
If I were to train for this race I would swim either 4 X 1000s kick a 500 and cool down, or 8 X 500s, kick a 500 cool down. Or better yet, start with a 1000 warm-up, rest 1:00, then swim a 1500 straight, rest 1:00 minute and followed by a 1000 swim. Next, rest 2:00 minutes and do either 5 X 100 kicks on a fast interval or kick for 500 yards straight. Finish with 6 X 100 Frees on a fast interval then cool down about 200 yards. If you can do this the next 4 weeks 4 or 5 or 6 times a week. The 4.4 mile swim will be fun and not pain.
Animal
Let see you only do 10,000 yards a week which is not quite 6 miles. So you could do this swim on what you do, but you will hurt like crazy and at the end may think you should have swam more and why are you swimming this.
If I were to train for this race I would swim either 4 X 1000s kick a 500 and cool down, or 8 X 500s, kick a 500 cool down. Or better yet, start with a 1000 warm-up, rest 1:00, then swim a 1500 straight, rest 1:00 minute and followed by a 1000 swim. Next, rest 2:00 minutes and do either 5 X 100 kicks on a fast interval or kick for 500 yards straight. Finish with 6 X 100 Frees on a fast interval then cool down about 200 yards. If you can do this the next 4 weeks 4 or 5 or 6 times a week. The 4.4 mile swim will be fun and not pain.
Animal
