I've been lifting weights + running for a few years and have been swimming on and off for a couple of years. Last season I ramped up my swimming slightly to maybe 2000 meters 3 times per week. I'm gonna try a swimrun in about a month and have tried to increase my swimming to 4 times per week during the summer. I can do a 5k run in 20 mins if I max it so I think the running is fine but I don't know about my swimming.
Best 100 meters time 1:20 (was few months ago, maybe I could increase it to 1:15 by now)
I get really tired by it but I can do 3 intervalls of 100 meters at 1:30. With 1:30 rest.
Longest crawl 1k (was really hard) 19 minutes
I have tried to make a 400 meter swim in 7 minutes twice in the last week but had bad days both times and got like 7:30.
I hope I am considered an intermediate swimmer at this but I'm not sure?
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Thanks everyone + interesting to read.
Everyone at my race crawled the whole race except me.. At least those in front of me... But the running felt better, I don't think anyone ran past me except in the start. Guess I will have to work on the swimming til the next summer. I had a hard time crawling the long distances when I was already out of breath. Also felt like I wasn't going completely straight.
And ye I agree with the relative thing, not that I was surprised at all by this but it was a big difference from a regular pool (of course). Felt like going from being one of the best to one of the worst.
My last 5k was 21:00 so I can't do a 20:00 everytime but maybe every third time I run or so. My best recent 10k run is 43:45 but I'm usually at 47:00 maybe.
I live in Sweden so I think it should be meters, sometimes my shorter distance times varies from pool from pool but the long distance times are the same. I have a good group that I'm gonna swim with in the autumn and winter so gonna stick with that for the forseeable future.
I don't know exactly what a pool event is but in the forseeable I will probably try to repeat the swimrun or try some open water swim race.
Thanks everyone + interesting to read.
Everyone at my race crawled the whole race except me.. At least those in front of me... But the running felt better, I don't think anyone ran past me except in the start. Guess I will have to work on the swimming til the next summer. I had a hard time crawling the long distances when I was already out of breath. Also felt like I wasn't going completely straight.
And ye I agree with the relative thing, not that I was surprised at all by this but it was a big difference from a regular pool (of course). Felt like going from being one of the best to one of the worst.
My last 5k was 21:00 so I can't do a 20:00 everytime but maybe every third time I run or so. My best recent 10k run is 43:45 but I'm usually at 47:00 maybe.
I live in Sweden so I think it should be meters, sometimes my shorter distance times varies from pool from pool but the long distance times are the same. I have a good group that I'm gonna swim with in the autumn and winter so gonna stick with that for the forseeable future.
I don't know exactly what a pool event is but in the forseeable I will probably try to repeat the swimrun or try some open water swim race.
