Originally Posted by
Rogue Leader
3500 yards 3 times a week? Thats a LOT of swimming. Not saying its a bad thing, as I personally suck at it too and should probably do more, but for someone like him (who probably is the same pace as me) thats like a 2 hour swim workout a day. Being that he has till June 6th, and he is just starting, jumping into a workout like that may burn him out fast. The rest of the advice about mixing it up is sound, being that its a sprint distance the swim is probably 1/2 - 3/4 mile, and survival is important for the first one. Id say mix it up for 1000 - 1500 yards 2-3 times a week, and try and mix in on one of those days a continuous 1000 - 1500 yard swim. That will get you through the first event, then you can ramp things up...
I agree it is alot, we typically get there in one hour though not 2. but you have to have a goal set kinda high, if you cant quite make it that ok but training for swim should be a really hard one hour practice. when i started training in the pool which was only 3 months ago our group was doing the 3500 and i would just every now and then let them do a down and back while i caught my breath and out of 3500 i was doing about 2600. 3 months later i am just about keeping up only missing maybe 200 yds of the 3500. basically the only way to get good in the pool is to push yourself and do it consistently. also get yourself some good training fins if you have not done so already and a pull buoy and work those pulls.