In our June issue we started a series on taking your training outside and looked at sighting and swimming straight. In July, we worked on how to swim in a group. Last month we digressed, to consider how you might approach an event despite minimal training.
Most summer outdoor swimming events and challenges are long distance – at least by the standards of pool swimming. Rather than outright speed, you need to be able to keep swimming from something like 15 minutes (for a half mile) to several hours or more. If you’re competitively minded, you’ll want to improve your fastest sustainable speed.
Another key skill for endurance swimming is pacing. If you get extremely tired and slow down towards the end of a swim, you might think a lack of endurance is to blame, but it could be that you simply started too fast. For swims lasting longer than around 60 to 90 minutes, another reason could be that you’ve depleted your muscles’ glycogen stores and you need to look at your nutrition – but that’s a different article.
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