Upcoming Swim Challenge - the 6000 club

Agreed.  It's worth trying.  

That would make for a long workout...

For me, I would probably start with 15" of rest by swimming easy, but I'm sure that would slow down to a continuous swim after about 4000 yards...  Yikes.

I bet I could do it if I treated it like a race or challenge, and not just another workout...  But that would be the longest swim I ever did by about 1200 yards....  I would have to look to see If I ever did 5k before...

One time deal. I mean, he has patience and all, but he doesn't mull around very much. Usually he's on the deck pacing watching for strokes, making corrections, checking in w/ everyone, and keeping up with our time trials. Quite the busy man.

Whistle? That's what pace clocks are for. Workouts like that are just good excuses for coaches to go sleep in the office.

Back in the day, we uswed to have new year's eve workouts where we would swim the new year in 100s on 1:10.

So... 84x100 on 1:10.

Fun stuff.

Now...you kids...get offa my lawn!

That's funny...to me, there is absolutley nothing interesting about repeat 100s.

meh, I think it's a good challenge for yourself.  Not up to you to excite other posters with your swim workouts

My coach recently blogged about finally reaching her milestone...  100 x 100 on 100 (seconds, 1:40).  yowza........

most I ever did was 40 x 100 on 1:40 for coach's 40th birthday.  It's interesting the watch the progression and when the second wind comes on

Here in Boston a pro triathlete/coach does 100 100s on New Years Eve...for 10K yards. They set up lanes by pace and send off times. I have no desire to do such a thing but the paces would be to fast for me if they did.

Go for it...if you have the desire.

Yea, the pace clock will be set for 2:00. You swim your 100yrds. If you finish in 1:40, you get a :20 rest interval. If you finish in 1:59, well you catch your breath and go again.

Basically there will be 120mins to do the event in. Finish it or not.

Going back, part of me really wants to do it, just to try to see where I am. To have a challenge. But the other part of me really doesn't want to get in the way and keep the guy/gal behind me from making their splits.  I'm thinking of trying it at least. Success is built upon many failures - right?

Oh, and no tshirt for it. Just your name on the wall. That's it.

I already got a tshirt for the Polar Bear Challenge (place in the top 10 among swimmers for Jan-Feb).

This past Sunday, my main set was a 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 500, 400, 300, 200, 100 pyramid (total 3,600 yd) with send-offs on multiples of 2:00 per 100 (2:00 for 100, 4:00 for 200, 6:00 for 300, etc.) and using a pull buoy for the odd # swims.  I've got to admit that coming back down the pyramid I was struggling to make it by the next send-off for some of the swims, but the ones I pulled weren't too bad.  I could maybe make it pulling, but to do that for a full 6,000 yd swimming would probably rip my arms off.

I say go for it!

Heh. That was our workout too, first one of the new year. We had a little more leeway, my last one was 85 100's on 1:20.

Still ended up swimming the last 3k or so straight...

John 

Do you have to stop each 100? Can you bank time? Suppose you do 500 without stopping and happen to hit the 500 at the 1:50 mark but want to rest longer than 10 secs? Do you have to go when the 2:00 mark is reached no matter what?

Yes.  (at least that's what XXX on the X:XX means in general swimming terms)  Otherwise, it's not 60 x 100.  If you need to rest longer than the interval, you can't do it yet