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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but you have 3 choices! ive been watching this forum for some time and this post, of all of them, has irked me to the point of having to respond. i do any one of the three workouts depending on how much time i have and modify each one accordingly. its not hard! if i do mo's workout i just modify the times or the distance to make the set easier or harder for me. same with jeremy and nate. nate's workouts seem to be geared more towards the competitive swimmer but anyone can do them. if you cant make a 100 back on 1:10 then what can you make it on? 1:40? fine. i certainly couldnt make a 1:10 100 back but i can do it in 1:45 and come in on 1:38. This gives me 7 seconds rest which for me is enough, so i modify the set. what's the big deal? if you are a competitive swimmer, im not - too old and slow, but if you are then you might benefit from doing his intervals. but if you are not a competitive swimmer, either don't do his workouts or simply modify them. or take a combination of all three! do jeremy's warmup, mo's main set and half of one of nate's sets at your interval. talk about variety! thanks to all three for taking time out of their busy schedules to give us these weekly workouts. i for one will continue to modify as necessary and hopefully one day, i wont have to! ;-)
but you have 3 choices! ive been watching this forum for some time and this post, of all of them, has irked me to the point of having to respond. i do any one of the three workouts depending on how much time i have and modify each one accordingly. its not hard! if i do mo's workout i just modify the times or the distance to make the set easier or harder for me. same with jeremy and nate. nate's workouts seem to be geared more towards the competitive swimmer but anyone can do them. if you cant make a 100 back on 1:10 then what can you make it on? 1:40? fine. i certainly couldnt make a 1:10 100 back but i can do it in 1:45 and come in on 1:38. This gives me 7 seconds rest which for me is enough, so i modify the set. what's the big deal? if you are a competitive swimmer, im not - too old and slow, but if you are then you might benefit from doing his intervals. but if you are not a competitive swimmer, either don't do his workouts or simply modify them. or take a combination of all three! do jeremy's warmup, mo's main set and half of one of nate's sets at your interval. talk about variety! thanks to all three for taking time out of their busy schedules to give us these weekly workouts. i for one will continue to modify as necessary and hopefully one day, i wont have to! ;-)
