Hi all,
MY 1st post! I'm thrilled I found this site. I hope you can help. I'm a good swimmer (12+ years of year-round competition when I was a kid), but have taken a LOT of time off. I'm 34, been back in the pool for about a year and feel great! I've been doing about 2000+/- yd workouts, some easy long sets, others short quick, little rest time. I have been staying in shape otherwise -- running, weights, yoga.
Here's my question: I'm doing a 1-mile open swim in June. I'm clueless about workouts. I've never trained for a distance like this. I can do a mile in a 25-yd pool in about 22 min -- pushing it hard. But I'd like to improve that time.
I dont' know how this translates into open water time. And I don't know how to train for this. I'd really like to be able to run, lift and yoga as well.
I'm looking for a 3 day per week program (is that enough?). I just want to get my speed up. I'm perfectly comfortable with the distance, so I'm not concerned about that.
Any ideas would be very much appreciated! Thanks so much.
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Erin
if your going to swim the 1 mile, you may want to train daily by swimming a 1760 yard straight, either every other day or once a week, it really depends on you, and what your comfortable with, try it for a week and see how you do, maybe try to break your 1 mile swim up into 3 x 550 yards maintain pace on numbers 1 and 2 and then kick it into overdrive for the last 500 the last 150-200 yards try to push 100 %, open ocean swim is so much more different than pool, 1 - you have about 200 swimmers in a pack, 2 - there are no lane lines to keep you on track so you may end up following someone way off course, 3 - you want to get used to porposing - popping your headf out of the water about every 10 strokes to see where you are at, there is a gal from Kona Hawaii Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen, she puts on a outstanding long distance swimming clinic, she holds numorous world titles, I went to one of her seminars and it was awsome, she has a DVD out, and you may be able to contact her somehow and get some info from her as well. Also they have open water clinics - this website is great for that info.
zac
Erin
if your going to swim the 1 mile, you may want to train daily by swimming a 1760 yard straight, either every other day or once a week, it really depends on you, and what your comfortable with, try it for a week and see how you do, maybe try to break your 1 mile swim up into 3 x 550 yards maintain pace on numbers 1 and 2 and then kick it into overdrive for the last 500 the last 150-200 yards try to push 100 %, open ocean swim is so much more different than pool, 1 - you have about 200 swimmers in a pack, 2 - there are no lane lines to keep you on track so you may end up following someone way off course, 3 - you want to get used to porposing - popping your headf out of the water about every 10 strokes to see where you are at, there is a gal from Kona Hawaii Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen, she puts on a outstanding long distance swimming clinic, she holds numorous world titles, I went to one of her seminars and it was awsome, she has a DVD out, and you may be able to contact her somehow and get some info from her as well. Also they have open water clinics - this website is great for that info.
zac
