I have a question for marathon swimmers...
I've been prepping for a 10k swim that I'll be doing this coming Saturday. I live in coastal southern New England. I really began training in late Feb or Early March by doing longer pool swims. Once the open waters warmed up enough for wetsuits, I moved outside in late May/early June. I completed a full 10k+ with my kayaker today and practiced feeding/drinking him. I feel ready. In the future, I'd like to maintain fitness for doing swims of this long, and longer. But my question is...how do you maintain fitness for doing swims of this distance through winter? I just don't know if I can handle six months of long pool swims.
Dan
I have a similar problem as well. After doing my first marathon swimming this month I'm looking forward to longer races next year (probably at 21 km). However as I live and race in different parts of the world, due to climate reason I will do most of the training in winter when the ocean temperature where I live is only 16°C - 19°C, which is the expected temperature of the race.
However, the race in the different part of the world is in August, which I have two problems:
1. I don't have any cold water to swim in starting from April, which I afraid I will lose my acclimation over 5 months. This year in July when I got into 17°C water in my trip I didn't feel very comfortable even after consistent swimming in 18°C - 19°C over the past winter until March.
2. As the water become hotter, I'm afraid that I may even have trouble keeping my swim volume and intensity in the final months before the race because I fatigue and burn out very fast in 30°C water.
Speed is not a concern in that race. Is there anyone here who have similar experience racing in other parts of the world with very different climate from where you live?
I have a similar problem as well. After doing my first marathon swimming this month I'm looking forward to longer races next year (probably at 21 km). However as I live and race in different parts of the world, due to climate reason I will do most of the training in winter when the ocean temperature where I live is only 16°C - 19°C, which is the expected temperature of the race.
However, the race in the different part of the world is in August, which I have two problems:
1. I don't have any cold water to swim in starting from April, which I afraid I will lose my acclimation over 5 months. This year in July when I got into 17°C water in my trip I didn't feel very comfortable even after consistent swimming in 18°C - 19°C over the past winter until March.
2. As the water become hotter, I'm afraid that I may even have trouble keeping my swim volume and intensity in the final months before the race because I fatigue and burn out very fast in 30°C water.
Speed is not a concern in that race. Is there anyone here who have similar experience racing in other parts of the world with very different climate from where you live?
