JasoninHalifax wrote:
devashish_paul wrote:
JasoninHalifax wrote:
Tom_hampton wrote:
I've decided I HATE swimming. It doesn't work like the "other" sports, and I can't figure out how it DOES work.
Swim more = get tired and do poorly
Take a rest = forget how to swim and do poorly
Swim harder = get tired and do poorly
Swim easier = do poorly
I quit.
Where did the magic go?
Thatās swimming.
Youāll be back at it tomorrow, because itās fuckin hard. And that makes it worth it.
I am wrapping up swim camp in Cancun....I got a bit sick mid week, so only did 1x per day Wed and Thu, but beat this stomach bug and fever and able to pile it on yesterday and today (last day).
I am heading out for the final session which will push me to 42km for the week which is the most I ever did. And a lot of this was pretty high intensity (higher than I would do). I shared my room with Cdn 45-49 record holder in 200IM/400IM/200fly/400 free/800 free Greg Streppel (who you may overlap in the same age group....he just moved to mine). Anyway, I learned a lot. I did get some beach jogging, a spin session and some weight sessions in too, so a a really solid week, but mainly other than swims, I have been in the hotel room recovering for the next session and just doing work for the office back home....pretty well no energy to do anything else if I am to make it to the next workout and survive it!!!!
OK off to the pool again. Will post pics when I get home.
Dev
Yeah, I raced Streppel a couple of times at Nationals. Well, when I say āracedā he was about 20s faster than me in the 400 and nearly a minute quicker in the 800.
As an aside, Iām trying to figure out how I can make the switch back to pure swimming. Iāve decided that I really donāt like triathlon all that much (pending my xterra debut, which may not be a great idea given my knee injury today)
It was pretty funny having Steppel in the lane beside me to see how a good swimmer moves...and he's totally not built like an elite swimmer. The guy is 5'8" and a 190 lbs BRICK. His feet must be 3 sizes smaller than mine and his hands are easily 1.5 inches of span smaller. the guy defies logic in terms of morphology. He was cranking out 10K days every day for 2 weeks (I arrived for week 2 of the camp).
As for your "switch back to pure swimming" at your level, triathlon may be more convenient. If you want to switch back to pure swimming, I would imagine to get to where you want to get to, you're going to need to do 2x per day. The problem of 2x per day is you have to at the pool twice, away from work or family. If it is 1 swim per day and another dryland workout of tri struff, that's easier to manage around life, especially given that you have young kids.
For someone like me, with a grown up kid and running my own startup company I can do 1x per day and dryland. If I was an "employee" 2x per day would be totally doable. But having done this camp, I don't think it would be that tough for me to be on the 30,000-40,000m per week training program after some adaptation versus my current 18-25 range. If I could get on the larger program, I'd just improve faster, vs the lower weekly hours/yardage. It's almost like I can only pick one tiny thing per month and spend the entire month trying to work on that, and then move to something else....more yardage means acquiring something new 2x faster in weeks! Real swimmers alread did that in college, so I suppose you don't need more than a few big weeks at a time since you have the skill already.
Greg will be doing all the same events as I am at provincials (200IM, 400IM, 200 fly, 400 free, 1500 free) in the same age group....it just means that I'll be further away form the top times LOL!