IM Swim prep...Anyone swim as little as I do? (Page 2)

titeloops - 2010-10-07 2:21 PM You'll probably be fine, not fast, but fine. Glad its you not me. I'd be pooping a brick!

I did the same thing last year for Louisville and I swam a 1:24 and felt like I had not done anything when i got out.  i'm not nervous or worried about how i feel because a 1:20 IM swim for me (without hardly swimming at all during the year) is easy and doesn't fatigue me.  I do a lot of pushups, dips and shoulder exercises during the year so its no biggie. 

My whole point to this question really was wondering if anyone else swims a few time the month leading up to the IM swim and not much else.  Due mainly to more time on the bike and run or because they are fine with their swim time where it is.

I do plan on trying to get better for my 2012 IM.  But i went from avg of 18mph on the bike for IM to around 20mph in one year.  And thats 20mph and still feeling good.

Oh thank you!!!   My Thursday was getting, as you say, painfully slow, now that JBrashear's office mate smashed that mile. 

Pass that popcorn will ya???

btw, what's the over/under on this poster's BT life??  I see some other thread where he/she's getting all jiggy with it.  j doggg?  That you???

Oh yeah,.....   don't feed the trolls

No I didn't mean for it to come across like i swim very little and i'm still fast or something.  I do not think a 1:24 is fast. I personally think anything approaching the 1 hour mark is pretty dang good though.

What I meant by saying I did no swimming and swam a 1:24 was....I could have swam very hard and worked on technique this year and maybe dropped to what? 60-70 min MAYBE.  That would be a drop of 24 min if i was extremely lucky and worked very hard at it.  I worked pretty hard at biking this year and i expect to take 50 min off my bike split.  So for me i did no swimming this year and i can keep my swim at 1:20ish, but i took my bike split way down.  Now that i've got another year of biking under me then maybe next year I can keep my bike constant and take the swim down.

I was just curious if anyone else takes this approach.  Since it seems to me that once you learn how to swim (at least enough to make the distance...not saying great form or anything) it doesn't take much effort to stay at your all day pace.  But if i was to drop the bike or run training like i did the swimming then you all know what would happen.

What about someone who wants to do their first triple ironman or their first 100 mile run? Would you sign up for the race thinking that you are going for the win?  If that was true then say you knew the winner for the 100 was going to be at around an 8min mile.  Are you going to go out at that pace until you can't hold it any longer (assuming you can't)?  Because if you don't then you obviously aren't trying to win.