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So I've been training for the St. Croix 5 mile swim this October, while I have been able to get in some long open water swims on a few weekends, it is getting to the point with work and family obligations that I will do the rest of the training staring at the dreaded "black line".
I've been fairly successful at keeping the boredom at bay.
For instance this morning's swim was: a 200 yd warm up, 200 breast followed by 5 sets of: 500 swim, 300 pull, 200 pull 100 pull 200 breast (all with 30 sec rest), then a 400 yd cool down for a total of 7500 yards. Not too mind numbing as I also alternated the 500 swims with using paddles and not using paddles, any thing to mix it up.
So anyone have any other suggestions for long workouts?
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A 5 mile swim??????
I have nothing for you.
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
2014 Goals:
Stay healthy
Enjoy life
Not even sympathy?
I'll give you that!!! Hey, you are gonna be in St. Croix, so it can't be THAT bad! Swimming over the tops of sea turtles and rays and neat-o fishies
5 miles...holy crap. That's a lot of swimming.
No advice, but it sounds painful.
But, as an Ironman, you know that things that once seemed impossible, are very possible.
Regarding the boredom, I got nothing for you. Just like Ironman training, you just need to do it.
7500 yards sounds very long!
Enjoy!
Life Goals:
#1: Do what I can do
#2: Enjoy life
for today's swim I set a new time and distance record: it took me 2:29:45 to swim 8,500 yards, which is 340 lengths or 170 laps ... oh what the heck its 4.8 MILES of staring at the blue line (yeah our pool' line is blue, not black and I can probably tel you how many mosaic tiles make up a line, but do you really want to know) oh God help me, my brain is fried and numb
Hahahaha, I sued to do sets of 500s and move my water bottle around to keep track of how many sets Iv'e done, but no more! My Garmin 910xt does a pretty good job, it misses a length every once-in-a-while so I can pretty much rely on what it says is accurate unless I come up with an odd number, then I have to remember to correct it when I download the info.
Anyway I only have one more real long swim coming up this Wednesday and then I can enjoy the taper