As I peruse the workouts that some of you do, and as I prepare for my first ever 3000m swim (12 March), I had to wonder how many forumites do subject swims on a regular basis.
I put a question mark beside the word "easy", because perhaps such swimming could be tempo/strong pace sometimes, vice recovery pace.
(Maybe such swims are done but are not worthy to be recorded as "workouts"?)
Thoughts?
But what about you sprinter/middle-distance types? Does 3km+ continuous (in a pool?) get done regularly?
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You might see me swim 800 continuously, but if you do it's a warmup. And even then it's probably broken up into 300/200/300 or so. Other than warmup I can't remember the last time I did anything longer than a 200 straight.
Sprint diva bad attitude aside, I do agree that there's a place for some conditioning/capacity training for events as short as the 100 (and my many deaths in the 100 fly are a testament to that) but I don't think a straight 3000 would be a part of that program. A 3k could certainly be a nice feel-good swim, and one could definitely make a workout out of it, but it wouldn't get someone like me closer to my goals as effectively as something a lot more targeted would.
It does make sense to me that if you're preparing for a 3k, you should probably swim a 3k now and then. Good luck and have fun!
edit: I looked it up. I swam a 400 LCM IM back in 2017 (for a split request, obviously, as I will never be prepared to swim a 400 LCM IM well). I really don't think I've done anything that long, in race or in practice, since then. Just for fun it looked like this:
Leg
Cumulative
Subtractive
1
29.30
29.30
2
1:04.41
35.11
3
2:07.87
1:03.46
4
3:08.56
1:00.69
5
4:07.35
58.79
6
5:04.92
57.57
7
5:55.00
50.08
8
6:40.86
45.86
But what about you sprinter/middle-distance types? Does 3km+ continuous (in a pool?) get done regularly?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
:)
You might see me swim 800 continuously, but if you do it's a warmup. And even then it's probably broken up into 300/200/300 or so. Other than warmup I can't remember the last time I did anything longer than a 200 straight.
Sprint diva bad attitude aside, I do agree that there's a place for some conditioning/capacity training for events as short as the 100 (and my many deaths in the 100 fly are a testament to that) but I don't think a straight 3000 would be a part of that program. A 3k could certainly be a nice feel-good swim, and one could definitely make a workout out of it, but it wouldn't get someone like me closer to my goals as effectively as something a lot more targeted would.
It does make sense to me that if you're preparing for a 3k, you should probably swim a 3k now and then. Good luck and have fun!
edit: I looked it up. I swam a 400 LCM IM back in 2017 (for a split request, obviously, as I will never be prepared to swim a 400 LCM IM well). I really don't think I've done anything that long, in race or in practice, since then. Just for fun it looked like this:
Leg
Cumulative
Subtractive
1
29.30
29.30
2
1:04.41
35.11
3
2:07.87
1:03.46
4
3:08.56
1:00.69
5
4:07.35
58.79
6
5:04.92
57.57
7
5:55.00
50.08
8
6:40.86
45.86
