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Swim Training without a Pool

  • 19-06-2011 1:05am
    #1
    zico10
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    I'm training for a race with a 1.8km swim in November and the only pool I have access to has no swim lanes and 30+ kids jumping in, splashing around and throwing floats at each other. Went there once and trying to get a proper session in was a disaster. 25m uninterrupted was a hard ask, let alone 100m.
    It's no trouble for me to get to the sea though and being in tropical waters, hypothermia will not be a problem. So from this point of view I can spend unlimited time in the water.
    My question is, what sort of training could I be doing? Obviously things like 100 metre sets will be very difficult. Could I just count number of strokes and use this as a rough estimate of distance, for sessions like 10 x 100m?
    Things like pull buoys and paddles I can't leave on the non existent pool wall, so this element of training is out.
    Any suggestions welcome.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    911sc
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    Is there not 2 buoys you could use as 2 markers to do repeats?
    You could get a small kids inflatable boat to keep your water/pull buoys/paddles when you are at sea and that you attach to one of the buoys?


  • #3
    tunney
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    Assuming 1 stroke per metre I'd do intervals of 100 strokes steady/mod, then 25-50 easy and repeat. Concentrating on form.

    I'd also probably throw in some sprints every time I thought I saw a shark.


  • #4
    Macanri
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    tunney wrote: »
    Assuming 1 stroke per metre I'd do intervals of 100 strokes steady/mod, then 25-50 easy and repeat. Concentrating on form.

    I'd also probably throw in some sprints every time I thought I saw a shark.


    Sorry Zico - no suggestions from me. But don't follow tunney's advice re the sprints if you see a shark. Everyone knows (from seeing JAWS), that you keep real still if you see a shark - then they can't 'see' you!:D

    Whats the race?


  • #5
    zico10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭zico10


    911sc wrote: »
    Is there not 2 buoys you could use as 2 markers to do repeats?
    You could get a small kids inflatable boat to keep your water/pull buoys/paddles when you are at sea and that you attach to one of the buoys?

    No, unfortunately there's not at the beach I'm currently swimming. There's a few other beaches close by, which I'll suss out, but I'm not expecting there to be any on these either.
    tunney wrote: »
    Assuming 1 stroke per metre I'd do intervals of 100 strokes steady/mod, then 25-50 easy and repeat. Concentrating on form.

    Thanks, will give that a go tomorrow so.
    tunney wrote: »
    I'd also probably throw in some sprints every time I thought I saw a shark.

    I've been assured there are no sharks in these waters, but it might be no harm imagining I see them, just to get in some sprints.
    Macanri wrote: »
    Sorry Zico - no suggestions from me. But don't follow tunney's advice re the sprints if you see a shark. Everyone knows (from seeing JAWS), that you keep real still if you see a shark - then they can't 'see' you!:D

    I thought that only worked with a tyrannosaurus rex, a la Jurassic Park.
    Macanri wrote: »
    Whats the race?

    Laguna Phuket Triathlon, it's working out very expensive, so I hope it's all it's cracked up to be.


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