Just wondering if I need to eat/drink during a 5 mile swim. It's not a race just working up to it to see how it feels.
I am currently swimming about 10k-12k/week. The longest swim I've done is a 3.5 miler and it wasn't particularly challenging but i was also going slower than normal.
At what distance do I need to starting fueling up or seriously considering nutrition?
I've done a 2.25 mile swim 6 times. In this swim, you typically pick up a personal kayaker and they ahve drinking water and gatorade. One year the Kayaker had no water and had sports drinks with artificial sweeteners. I drank lake water (until 10 years ago, it was the town's drinking water.). The swim was hard.
Since then, I stuff a couple of York Peppermint patties into my jammers and that sugar makes a difference.
If you work out in a pool, you could see how you do with distances with and without nutrition.
I've done a 2.25 mile swim 6 times. In this swim, you typically pick up a personal kayaker and they ahve drinking water and gatorade. One year the Kayaker had no water and had sports drinks with artificial sweeteners. I drank lake water (until 10 years ago, it was the town's drinking water.). The swim was hard.
Since then, I stuff a couple of York Peppermint patties into my jammers and that sugar makes a difference.
If you work out in a pool, you could see how you do with distances with and without nutrition.
