Just a thought/request:
At some point in the future, it would be nice to have workouts posted by someone who specializes in LONG distance coaching with an eye on open water distances (1 mile "death sprints" to ??? miles). The workouts provided are generally excellent, but since open water distances basically start where pool distances leave off, it would be great to have something a bit more specific. This is especially true since there is a relatively small body of printed work on longer distance/open water training and coaches for LONG distances seem few and far between.
Would anyone else be interested and would this be possible?
-LBJ
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i used to swim many 1500 breastrokes sets and about 4 months ago decided to try freestyle,same distance,needless to say i struggled at first as front crawl seemed to zap my energy much faster than the breastroke i had done for 3-4years previous,although i often threw a few front crawl sets in as well previously.How i got better was to basically pace myself.I had to stop myself from swimming the first 100m as fast as i could and i did this by slowing maybe to half speed.In the first few weeks it was very hard and i could only manage 500m unbroken sets,but perceverence succeeded and i now swim 1500m freestyle at perhaps not the fastest time of 31mins,but i do this with no rests also i havent introduced flip turns that i used to do in breastroke but plan on doing this soon ...maybe i'll get down to 25 mins with these incorporated.I'm no expert but i hope this info helps.
i used to swim many 1500 breastrokes sets and about 4 months ago decided to try freestyle,same distance,needless to say i struggled at first as front crawl seemed to zap my energy much faster than the breastroke i had done for 3-4years previous,although i often threw a few front crawl sets in as well previously.How i got better was to basically pace myself.I had to stop myself from swimming the first 100m as fast as i could and i did this by slowing maybe to half speed.In the first few weeks it was very hard and i could only manage 500m unbroken sets,but perceverence succeeded and i now swim 1500m freestyle at perhaps not the fastest time of 31mins,but i do this with no rests also i havent introduced flip turns that i used to do in breastroke but plan on doing this soon ...maybe i'll get down to 25 mins with these incorporated.I'm no expert but i hope this info helps.
