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 just want to reiterate what Doug said above about the SOS group. I met Mike Garr around 2003/2004 at the Newport, RI Navy base pool and he invited me to join him, and two other swimmers, at Middletown, RI's Sachuest Beach for open water swims in the warm months. Back then we met only on Wednesdays at 4:30pm. But, those three guys...Mike Garr, Paul Talewsky, and Brian Gardener were the very beginning of Sachuest Ocean Swimmers. Within a year or two of my joining, Jim Parham began swimming with us. As Doug indicated, it has grown into a group of at least two-hundred interested individuals swimming in various locations around Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. If you're in the area hit up the group on the Facebook page and you'll surely find someone to swim with somewhere.
Dan
I just want to reiterate what Doug said above about the SOS group. I met Mike Garr around 2003/2004 at the Newport, RI Navy base pool and he invited me to join him, and two other swimmers, at Middletown, RI's Sachuest Beach for open water swims in the warm months. Back then we met only on Wednesdays at 4:30pm. But, those three guys...Mike Garr, Paul Talewsky, and Brian Gardener were the very beginning of Sachuest Ocean Swimmers. Within a year or two of my joining, Jim Parham began swimming with us. As Doug indicated, it has grown into a group of at least two-hundred interested individuals swimming in various locations around Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. If you're in the area hit up the group on the Facebook page and you'll surely find someone to swim with somewhere.
Dan
