Potomac River swim

This looks like a cool swim. I've been meaning to try to get into the Bay Swim one of these years and I've got a list of open water swims I want to do. I'm definitely adding this one to that list. Definitely won't make it out this year, but someday ... CMonster, I don't know what your background is, but I was training about that level (probably closer to 12K per week yardage) for a 3 mile open water swim and I definitely was wiped by the end of it. Over the last few years, I've done 2 to 5 open water swims per year, ranging from 1 to 3 miles. If I was going to try for a 7.5M open water swim, I'd want to do the following: get my yardage up closer to the 25K per week in the ~4 to 6 weeks leading up to the event the way I would probably do that is: do three workouts at about 5K per workout that were more "traditional" but distance-oriented pool workouts one, long workout a week approaching 10K, likely doing things like 10 x 1000, 5 x 2000 and even 1 x 10000. I'd want to get used to how my body reacted to the longer swims and how my mind reacted to the boredom study "feeding" techniques for open water swimming. I haven't been in a swim race long enough to warrant this, but, seeing that the 2007 times ranged from about 3.5 hours to 5 hours, I think you're going to need to know what works for you nutrition-wise Good luck and report back to the forum.

This looks like a cool swim. I've been meaning to try to get into the Bay Swim one of these years and I've got a list of open water swims I want to do. I'm definitely adding this one to that list. Definitely won't make it out this year, but someday ... CMonster, I don't know what your background is, but I was training about that level (probably closer to 12K per week yardage) for a 3 mile open water swim and I definitely was wiped by the end of it. Over the last few years, I've done 2 to 5 open water swims per year, ranging from 1 to 3 miles. If I was going to try for a 7.5M open water swim, I'd want to do the following: get my yardage up closer to the 25K per week in the ~4 to 6 weeks leading up to the event the way I would probably do that is: do three workouts at about 5K per workout that were more "traditional" but distance-oriented pool workouts one, long workout a week approaching 10K, likely doing things like 10 x 1000, 5 x 2000 and even 1 x 10000. I'd want to get used to how my body reacted to the longer swims and how my mind reacted to the boredom study "feeding" techniques for open water swimming. I haven't been in a swim race long enough to warrant this, but, seeing that the 2007 times ranged from about 3.5 hours to 5 hours, I think you're going to need to know what works for you nutrition-wise Good luck and report back to the forum.