Hi all. I am about 8 weeks out from a 5K Lake Swim. I am a strong pool swimmer but never done this distance in "open" water - pretty new here. I am convinced I can muscle though it if need be, but would like to make a competitive age group showing.
I am training almost exclusively in pool, so looking for advice, links, or books on workouts, distances, pace, taper (?), etc. Thanks for any advice.
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E=H2O: I breathe bilaterally, every 3 strokes.
geochuck: You present good and bad news, I definitely have not been swimming my race distance once a week. However I have been doing very challenging 3500-4500m workouts 4X/week. Aside from the stitch the 5000m continuous race distance did not make me any more tired than the training sessions, in fact I'd have to say it was easier... (felt less tired after).
The good news is I did exactly that, I worked around the stitch and eased it out. I did have to hit a few strokes of *** a couple of times. It it did improve during the swim, so I sorted it out - mostly by slowing right the heck down though.... The fairly intense numbness up into my R shoulder joint was very weird.
Thanks guys!
E=H2O: I breathe bilaterally, every 3 strokes.
geochuck: You present good and bad news, I definitely have not been swimming my race distance once a week. However I have been doing very challenging 3500-4500m workouts 4X/week. Aside from the stitch the 5000m continuous race distance did not make me any more tired than the training sessions, in fact I'd have to say it was easier... (felt less tired after).
The good news is I did exactly that, I worked around the stitch and eased it out. I did have to hit a few strokes of *** a couple of times. It it did improve during the swim, so I sorted it out - mostly by slowing right the heck down though.... The fairly intense numbness up into my R shoulder joint was very weird.
Thanks guys!
