In golf, there is one feat few accomplish - to shoot your age.
The goal is simple - par is your age where everyone hits from the same tees and there are no handicaps.
To swim your age you must do a swim equal in kilometers to your age. So if you are 20 years old, you can if you do at least a 20K swim.
If you are 30 years old, you can Swim Your Age if you do at least a 30K swim. At 40 years, you must do a 40K swim. Obviously, this aquatic feat gets harder and harder as you get older.
The swim can be done in any body of water: an ocean, lake, reservoir, bay, estuary, sea, channel, canal, river, fjord or lagoon. It must be continuous (feeding stops are allowed) and completed according to the traditional rules of the sport (e.g., no touching boats, kayaks or piers and without a wetsuit) and is measured in kilometers (not miles which is harder).
With the growing number of Half Century Club members, the Swim Your Age achievement is within reach for many.
But having to swim a 44KM OW swim now. Are you insane? There has got to be a better age-related OW swim metric out there...
I'm with him.
Outside magazine some years ago did an article on maintaining strength as one ages. A 70+ man, well trained, went on a sort of jungle course with much younger, well-trained people. Conclusion: he kept up, but obviously was not having any fun. (And that was one person out of a few billion who could not ever hope to do the course.)
If you don't have anything else to do but train, and have good genes, and motivation takes you in that direction, and you like the personal challenge, great. As a general metric, it's meaningless.
But having to swim a 44KM OW swim now. Are you insane? There has got to be a better age-related OW swim metric out there...
I'm with him.
Outside magazine some years ago did an article on maintaining strength as one ages. A 70+ man, well trained, went on a sort of jungle course with much younger, well-trained people. Conclusion: he kept up, but obviously was not having any fun. (And that was one person out of a few billion who could not ever hope to do the course.)
If you don't have anything else to do but train, and have good genes, and motivation takes you in that direction, and you like the personal challenge, great. As a general metric, it's meaningless.
