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
Well bummer, Rob, Slam the Dam was cancelled yesterday because of the gov't shutdown since Lake Mead is in a Nat'l Park. That said, I used a lot of your advice in training and totally felt like I was ready to conquer this bad boy this weekend and do fairly well. I sure appreciate your advice, thanks again! I'm hoping to get something else squeezed in before the end of the year, though. Not sure I can do without some form of competition between now and next spring. LOL! And to McNair, I think that training plan was working out well. Longest day was about 2.5 hours and about 9000. Felt really good. You can do it! Lemme know if you do a 10k! I'd love to hear how you do.
Well bummer, Rob, Slam the Dam was cancelled yesterday because of the gov't shutdown since Lake Mead is in a Nat'l Park. That said, I used a lot of your advice in training and totally felt like I was ready to conquer this bad boy this weekend and do fairly well. I sure appreciate your advice, thanks again! I'm hoping to get something else squeezed in before the end of the year, though. Not sure I can do without some form of competition between now and next spring. LOL! And to McNair, I think that training plan was working out well. Longest day was about 2.5 hours and about 9000. Felt really good. You can do it! Lemme know if you do a 10k! I'd love to hear how you do.
