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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The book "Swim Fastest" has some good ideas you could use. The point about Zatopek is interesting as he certainly did more than intervals (running through snow fields for miles at a time) and he won an Olympic marathon.
The ideal about fatigue will make you lose form in long swims I frankly don't buy as an argument against long swimming. If you swim with a pace clock and make sure your pace and stroke count are constant it is unlikely your form is going to pot. Secondly how many of us train with a coach closely watching. Thirdly these are long aerobic swims when it is easy to keep your form these should not be hard swims. When you do threshold or lactic acid build up sets this is when it is hard to keep your form.
The book "Swim Fastest" has some good ideas you could use. The point about Zatopek is interesting as he certainly did more than intervals (running through snow fields for miles at a time) and he won an Olympic marathon.
The ideal about fatigue will make you lose form in long swims I frankly don't buy as an argument against long swimming. If you swim with a pace clock and make sure your pace and stroke count are constant it is unlikely your form is going to pot. Secondly how many of us train with a coach closely watching. Thirdly these are long aerobic swims when it is easy to keep your form these should not be hard swims. When you do threshold or lactic acid build up sets this is when it is hard to keep your form.
