I'm getting ready to do a 4.8 mile swim in a month and I'm trying to get in some 5000m (and up) pool swims. I usually max out at about 3500 yards so I'm struggling to come up with some workouts longer than that. Does anyone have any good suggestions for sets? Last week I did a main set of 10x200, so I'm fine with swimming some slightly tedious stuff.
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This is a LONG continuous swim, using a pyramid to build up and to break up the set mentally. Seriously, I was very surprised at how not-boring it was.
The premise is 25 hard, 25 easy, 50 hard, 50 easy, 75/75, 100, 100, ... Until you reach your goal, and then, without repeating the top distance, build down back to 25. Only going up to 125, the hard was pretty fast, but yesterday I did it up to 250, and the hard was just a little up-tempo.
Here are the total distance based on the upper distance up to 300.
25>50
50>200
75>450
100>800
125>1250
150>1800
175>2450
200>3200
225>4050
250>5000
275>6050
300>7200
This is a LONG continuous swim, using a pyramid to build up and to break up the set mentally. Seriously, I was very surprised at how not-boring it was.
The premise is 25 hard, 25 easy, 50 hard, 50 easy, 75/75, 100, 100, ... Until you reach your goal, and then, without repeating the top distance, build down back to 25. Only going up to 125, the hard was pretty fast, but yesterday I did it up to 250, and the hard was just a little up-tempo.
Here are the total distance based on the upper distance up to 300.
25>50
50>200
75>450
100>800
125>1250
150>1800
175>2450
200>3200
225>4050
250>5000
275>6050
300>7200
