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.
Animal, to counterpoint, I'd say I'm more in the 11-12k range, esp when we start LCM, and to defend my 15k a few posts ago, that is when I get in more than 3 times, which for me is rare, even in Bay preperation. I finished 31st last year and passed someone while swimming butterfly in the homestretch, which should tell you how I felt at the end. :weightlifter:
Your set is a good idea, and certainly something I'll keep in mind for my personal training, but if you go back to Lori's first post (and cry for help), she had been swimming similar sets already and is burnt out on them. The distance is good for what it is good for, but some folks need to change it up every once in a while. With a coach (which she has) and a good attitude, that change can be made with good results. Looks like Lori's making some progress after switching it up.
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.
Animal, to counterpoint, I'd say I'm more in the 11-12k range, esp when we start LCM, and to defend my 15k a few posts ago, that is when I get in more than 3 times, which for me is rare, even in Bay preperation. I finished 31st last year and passed someone while swimming butterfly in the homestretch, which should tell you how I felt at the end. :weightlifter:
Your set is a good idea, and certainly something I'll keep in mind for my personal training, but if you go back to Lori's first post (and cry for help), she had been swimming similar sets already and is burnt out on them. The distance is good for what it is good for, but some folks need to change it up every once in a while. With a coach (which she has) and a good attitude, that change can be made with good results. Looks like Lori's making some progress after switching it up.
