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 stuff I read and the people I talk to would agree that most of your mileage should be of the low lactate level variety think of it as "glycogen sparing". A good source of information is the "Swim Fastest" book here Maglischo puts the figure at around 60% but this includes warming up and warming down. That's the good news.
The bad news is some of the interval training should be very intense, very painful. In fact this is one of the reasons why the easy stuff is easy, you are saving your muscles especially the glycogen in your muscles, because the hard stuff is so hard and you need to be able to swim all out.
The stuff I read and the people I talk to would agree that most of your mileage should be of the low lactate level variety think of it as "glycogen sparing". A good source of information is the "Swim Fastest" book here Maglischo puts the figure at around 60% but this includes warming up and warming down. That's the good news.
The bad news is some of the interval training should be very intense, very painful. In fact this is one of the reasons why the easy stuff is easy, you are saving your muscles especially the glycogen in your muscles, because the hard stuff is so hard and you need to be able to swim all out.
