Swim time---Actual vs. Training Time

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2006-06-29 10:39 AM

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Fine time for me to think about this 17 weeks into my 20 week plan...

When I'm supposed to do say 30 minutes of swimming do I count resting time or should I pause my stop watch?

2006-06-29 10:40 AM
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Rencor - 2006-06-29 8:39 AM Fine time for me to think about this 17 weeks into my 20 week plan... When I'm supposed to do say 30 minutes of swimming do I count resting time or should I pause my stop watch?

 You count the restimg time. Your HR is up, your are probably breathing hard.

2006-06-29 10:41 AM
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Breaks should never count as total time for a training session and should always be subtracted *in my opinion*.
2006-06-29 10:45 AM
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Casey Shaw - 2006-06-29 8:41 AM Breaks should never count as total time for a training session and should always be subtracted *in my opinion*.

I guess I better not count every time I climb for 2 hours to 10,000 feet on my bike and coast back down 25 miles. ;-) - or any other time I stop pedaling.

2006-06-29 10:57 AM
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Ok I've been counting my resting time. I know my heart rate was UP!!...especially when I first started!
2006-06-29 11:06 AM
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Casey Shaw - 2006-06-29 10:41 AM Breaks should never count as total time for a training session and should always be subtracted *in my opinion*.

That's just silly.

*in my opinion*

2006-06-29 11:34 AM
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I take resting time into consideration when swimming.
2006-06-29 1:54 PM
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I count it, but I never rest for more then 15 seconds every 100, and most of the time I will go longer then that before I rest, unless I am really having a hard day. So I count them because they really only add up to max 4 minutes over a 30 min session, and my heart rate is still up during those rest breaks.
2006-06-29 3:26 PM
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mikericci - 2006-06-29 8:45 AM

Casey Shaw - 2006-06-29 8:41 AM Breaks should never count as total time for a training session and should always be subtracted *in my opinion*.

I guess I better not count every time I climb for 2 hours to 10,000 feet on my bike and coast back down 25 miles. ;-) - or any other time I stop pedaling.



Is there anyway I could air-lifted to the top of that ride and then coast down three times per week? I could tell my friends that I 'ride' 25 miles per day...

2006-06-29 4:15 PM
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Subject: RE: Swim time---Actual vs. Training Time
coachese - 2006-06-29 2:26 PM

mikericci - 2006-06-29 8:45 AM

Casey Shaw - 2006-06-29 8:41 AM Breaks should never count as total time for a training session and should always be subtracted *in my opinion*.

I guess I better not count every time I climb for 2 hours to 10,000 feet on my bike and coast back down 25 miles. ;-) - or any other time I stop pedaling.



Is there anyway I could air-lifted to the top of that ride and then coast down three times per week? I could tell my friends that I 'ride' 25 miles per day...



I count my chair-lift assisted mountain bike rides as full training rides - is that wrong? :-)

(Oh how I wish I could live in Whistler for the summer...)

2006-06-29 5:56 PM
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Subject: RE: Swim time---Actual vs. Training Time

Elevation gain/loss when biking compared to swimming rests is just plain silly...Apples and oranges!

The closest thing to that would be a bungee swim to the other side of the pool and then resting as you got pulled back to the other side in which case I would count the resting time that it took to be returned to the start.

Just because your HR is up on your rest time after a swim set doesn't mean your working on your training, it just means your recovering from having worked.  If you want to count it you can but you might as well tack on about 10min to every workout swim/bike/run that you ever do because your HR is up then too.

How about this, if I go for a series of short run intervals and between each set I jump in the pool for 3 min to cool off (w/o swimming) do I get to say I swam between my sets?

2006-06-29 6:12 PM
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That's why day after day my training log says 1500 yards and 45 minutes. I needed a time to put in and that's the arbitrary time I picked. At least the 1500 yards is accurate!

There's no way I could keep track and subtract the time I spend resting, socializing, etc. I swim faster than 3/100 but that's okay.
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