Building up mileage?

No more than 10% per week TOPS. And every 4th week take a recovery week where you scale back to 50% of the yardage done in the 3rd week of the cycle. Gives your body a chance to recover and avoid overuse injuries. SFBaySwimmer

Thx SFBaySwimmer, makes sense, similar approach to building up running mileage

I too am in the same situation with a 10-miler in October. Any advice on the maximum distance to build up to? :applaud:

There are some training tips from the Kingdom Swim here. Get used to building in a long swim once a week - over a few months I worked up to a 90 minute non-stop swim for the 10k I swam last year.

Thx SFBaySwimmer, makes sense, similar approach to building up running mileage Yeah the advice read like it was straight from Peter Pfitzinger. I actually think most swimmers can be a little more aggressive in their build (than a runner), but you are planning so far in advance that there is no need to.

There are some training tips from the Kingdom Swim here. Get used to building in a long swim once a week - over a few months I worked up to a 90 minute non-stop swim for the 10k I swam last year. That's a pretty cool site; I think they're right about the minimums for weekly yardage... they are definitely only minimums--"do more." Thanks for the link!

The weekly long swim is the most important part of the training regimen (IMHO) and the 10% rule is golden. Any time I find myself making a jump of more than 10% in a long swim things start to fall apart... so if you're doing 5000 continuous swim pretty well this week, don't jump to 6000 next week; 5500 is your limit.

the 10% rule is golden. I agree. 10 years ago I trained for a marathon and used the same idea with the 10% increase on the "long" day each week. I also think that if you add too much your risk for injury really jumps - the body needs to gradually get used to churning out longer distances or a small setback will just snowball into something more serious. (On a side note, I wish we had more snow in VT this year)

FYI, on the workout sections of this web page is now a section for marathon open water swimming workouts posted by Mallory Mead. I would offer a suggestion that you post your questions on her workout page, I am sure she would be very helpful and have some good suggestions for you. If not, let me know and I will get after her.... I am her father.....

I would like you to know that she is currently out of the country in preperation for am 88k race in Argentina, so if she is slow to respond that is why.