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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Swim, swim, swim, after you are physically in condition, swim some hundreds and some fiftys. After a good warm up I liked 50m in 37sec x 30 with 15 sec rest, and 100m in 1:18 x 15 with 30 sec rest. Lake swims 1 hr. 2hr. sometimes twice a day. In the 1hr swims I tried to get as close to three miles in the hr. On Saturday never more than 3 hr. swim, rest on Sun.
When training in the lake 60 to 65 strokes a min. and every 15 mins I took it up to 75 strokes a min. for 5 min. then back to 60 or 65 strokes. Remember this was in 1964 til I quit racing marathons.
George Park www.swimdownhill.com
Swim, swim, swim, after you are physically in condition, swim some hundreds and some fiftys. After a good warm up I liked 50m in 37sec x 30 with 15 sec rest, and 100m in 1:18 x 15 with 30 sec rest. Lake swims 1 hr. 2hr. sometimes twice a day. In the 1hr swims I tried to get as close to three miles in the hr. On Saturday never more than 3 hr. swim, rest on Sun.
When training in the lake 60 to 65 strokes a min. and every 15 mins I took it up to 75 strokes a min. for 5 min. then back to 60 or 65 strokes. Remember this was in 1964 til I quit racing marathons.
George Park www.swimdownhill.com
