I got this fever to row the last month and have not swam for at least that long.I know my arms are stronger. Thinking about a mile swim event..yes /no?
Heres the row boat/canoe I restored..it cruises...1987 18 ft Cascade Cedar Strip canoe that I fashioned outriggers on.
www.greenraystudio.com/index.php
What a beautiful craft! Your canoe reminds me of the gorgeous skulling boats featured in the movie "Must Love Dogs".
I was out for a 1-mile swim this morning at a local lake and some folks drove up with two huge outriggers (the kind you see in Hawaii). They were easily over 20 feet in length. Not your usual watercraft here in Arizona.
Even though you haven't physcially been in the water lately, I say you should go for your 1-mile swim. I'm sure your rowing and boat restoration activities have kept you in swimming shape. :)
Okay , just drove back home from the Harbor Springs Coastal Crawl.
I have to say that my son and I both came down with some weird stomach illness in the past week...I don't know what or why..it did not take me out of my game ..but it was there. Sooooo, anyways I wanted to do the 1 mile swim anyways...just cause I love the whole gosh darn scene..the place the water the people "i want to feel alive".
Been rowing like crazy but no swimming for the last month, Like I said.
Holeee whatever, I put on the sissy wetsuit {seperate category, would never even think about it , but Sheila Toarmina { bad spelling] influenced me on wearing one when she showed up with one at a Detroit river swim a few years back..whole nother story...again, I hit the water at harbor springs with my suit on not knowing what was going to happen...EARTH TO GREG, YOU ARE A HUMAN TORPEDO....dam I just put my toes straight back , did not kick at all , and cranked my new rowing arms at the same breathing rate as if I were cruisin across a lake in my boat...it was kinda funny.
First off, I know I was cheating with the wet suit , but I was just off for an experimental cruise, I actually waited for everyone else to get started before I started to swim. Then I went..passing high school girls that swam like minnows. Then others and finally catching up to people I rarely see in races "my mentors".It was cool. Row baby row
Yes! There is an amazing transfer of training effect, which I discovered after doing a 32 mile kayak race and then doing a one mile swimming race the following weekend without the benefit of any swim training at all. Unfortunately, it doesn't work the other way around, for I can swim all summer long, but I can't maintain a decent race pace doing a short 8 mile kayak race when autumn comes.
Yes! There is an amazing transfer of training effect, which I discovered after doing a 32 mile kayak race and then doing a one mile swimming race the following weekend without the benefit of any swim training at all. Unfortunately, it doesn't work the other way around, for I can swim all summer long, but I can't maintain a decent race pace doing a short 8 mile kayak race when autumn comes.
I have to think about that, but shootin from the hip I would say much of it is true.Rowing seems to turbo your arms and helps you understand the correct pace/power to glide ratio...which in turn helps your distance swimming.I have not had the opportunity to test swimming as a trainer for a rowing competition yet, interesting.
It isn't swimming, but there is a Badger paddler who xcountry skis all winter and comes to Hawaii, before the lakes and rivers thaw out, to race 40 miles in a solo outrigger canoe. So there must be a transfer training effect there?
