You peeps are a great resource so I would love your input for the last 2 months of training before my first 10k (roughly) in Oct. I've done a couple 5k's now this year and am loving the distance and OW swimming!! My background is (was) in ultra running so I figured I'd apply similar logic to buildup and taper for this distance in swimming as well (several buildup weeks, a lower week, then build again to almost the race distance). Also, I'm doing 4-5k, 3-4x/week with the team during the week on regular drills etc. These Sunday swims I'm just doing the mileage, learning the best time to drink/eat, etc. Thoughts? Am I over-thinking? Any other advice? Thanks in advance. :)
I did 7k (longest to date) last Sunday and felt pretty good. Here's the rest of the Sundays until 10/5
8/11 7.5k
8/18 8k
8/25 6.5k
9/1 7.5k
9/8 8k
9/15 8.5k
9/22 9k
9/29 5-6k
10/5 Race
I've never gone at past the marathon distance in running, but I was contemplating it at one point and seem to remember seeing precedent for your split swim in the ultra training regimen. the idea being that realistically very few people can run 50 miles at once to get ready a 50-mile race, so you do the race mileage over the course of a weekend: 10 Friday night, 25 Saturday midday, 15 Sunday morning.
That said I think the 10K distance is comparable to the marathon in running in terms of time, so your plan looks solid. I did a build up like that in spring of 2012 and got up to 11K in the pool (which made feeding easier), but I found it more difficult transitioning to open water in the summer (doing 2.4-mile and 5K distances) because I had all those turns and pushes off the wall imprinted in my distance experience; my pace in OW was a lot slower as a result... so do those distance build-up swims on the weekends in OW if you can, which does make feeding more problematic unless you have an escort. I'm shooting for a 10K OW for next summer, so I'm anxious to see how your plan turns out.
I've never gone at past the marathon distance in running, but I was contemplating it at one point and seem to remember seeing precedent for your split swim in the ultra training regimen. the idea being that realistically very few people can run 50 miles at once to get ready a 50-mile race, so you do the race mileage over the course of a weekend: 10 Friday night, 25 Saturday midday, 15 Sunday morning.
That said I think the 10K distance is comparable to the marathon in running in terms of time, so your plan looks solid. I did a build up like that in spring of 2012 and got up to 11K in the pool (which made feeding easier), but I found it more difficult transitioning to open water in the summer (doing 2.4-mile and 5K distances) because I had all those turns and pushes off the wall imprinted in my distance experience; my pace in OW was a lot slower as a result... so do those distance build-up swims on the weekends in OW if you can, which does make feeding more problematic unless you have an escort. I'm shooting for a 10K OW for next summer, so I'm anxious to see how your plan turns out.
