Re: 3km
- From: Martin Smith <beeties@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:52:16 +0100
"Micheal Artindale" <micheal.artindale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >>>>>Martin, I have a challenge. Before the end of the month, go to your
>> >>>
>> >>>local
>> >>>
>> >>>>>pool and do 8 km. Report back to us on how long it took. Also, the
>> >
>> > day
>> >
>> >>>>>after, report on how you feel.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>I can't. I wish I could, but I don't have the time.
>> >>>
>> >>>You should be able to do that in 2-3 hrs. You mean in the next week,
>you
>> >>>cannot find the time. Is that the lazyness in you that is coming out
>> >>
>> >>I mean the pool is open from 7-12, and I work from 8-17.
>> >
>> >
>> > So, for the next 7 days you work, no day off? And I thought only I could
>> > come up with excuses.
>>
>> The pool isn't open for lap swimming on the weekend. Besides that, I
>> don't want to swim an 8k. I don't like swimming 8k's.
>
>Ok, dont 8km. Go do 2 hrs of lengths. tell us how far you did.
Before Christmas, I had been pulling a three-times-weekly 1500 in
about 24 minutes, so i estimate I could swim 1500's continuously at
about a 30 minute pace for as long as my body heat held out. That
makes for about 6k in two hours.
But I don't enjoy long continuous swims like some others here do. I
much prefer a two-hour workout to a two-hour swim. I'm a workout
swimmer, which, in my case means I enjoy swimming hard, coached
workouts with a group, and I don't enjoy racing. I do enjoy an open
water race as a zen meditation, and I enjoy the fellowship of the pre-
and post-race gatherings, but I have never enjoyed racing as a
competitive sport, and long pool swims in a lane of overweight
dentists and skinny guys in billowing parachutes are extremely
frustrating.
One of the few problems with living in Norway is that masters swimming
is not a big sport. The only club I can join here trains once a week
for one hour at 9PM, and they just do a few drills. It isn't worth the
trouble of getting to the pool, plus if I work hard at that hour of
the night, I don't get to sleep until 2AM because my metabolism gets
fired up. So I get to swim Mon-Fri, 7:00-7:30, in one of two lanes set
aside for lap swimming. Fortunately, at that hour there are no
overweight dentists or skinny guys in billowing parachutes to pass.
>I highly doubt that the pool is closed on the weekend.
I didn't say it was closed on weekends. I said it isn't open for lap
swimming on weekends. The child is king in Norway. Most pool time is
set aside for children and families.
>> > Do it. Prove to me that you are not just talk.
>>
>> You can assume I'm just talk. It wouldn't make any difference in your
>> training anyway.
>
>No, but it might give me a reason to listen to you.
You're out of shape and weak. You have to build both your strength and
fitness. You won't do either perfecting your technique, and you won't
do either swimming 100s at a 4 minute pace. At that pace you don't
even have a technique. You have to have enough strength and fitness to
be able to do the strokes correctly.
>> >>>> > It took me 1 year to learn crawl, and do it in 59 seconds,
>actually
>> >>>>about 4
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>months, 3 times a week for a hr each practice.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>It took a year to learn crawl? What was your main problem?
>> >>>
>> >>>I never put my head in the water. I had to learn to swim with my head
>in the
>> >>>water, and breathing.
>> >>
>> >>It doesn't take a year to learn to put your head in the water.
>> >>Breathing is a little harder, but nowhere near a year. So we're
>> >>talking about fear of water. Your problem is psychological.
>> >
>> >
>> > It is not psychological. It was technique. I had to relearn how to swim.
>> > Once I learned how, then I worked on speed.
>> > The next year, I worked on speed.
>>
>> You said you had to learn to put your head in the water. If the problem
>> wasn't psychologica, what was the problem?
>
>Goggles, or lack there of. When I first figured out how to swim i was
>swimming with my face forward, out of the water. Once I got goggles I had to
>learn how to move again. At first, I would lift my head up, and then put it
>back down. I had to learn how to breathe on myside.
>
>Now, it does seam trivial, but back then, it was not.
But what was the problem. You got goggles, so you put your head in the
water. It doesn't take a year to learn to do that. You don't even have
to learn to do it anyway. Swimming craw stroke with your head up is a
lot harder than swimming with your head in the water. Please don't
tell me it's easier for you.
.
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