Made it on the Daily News of OWS!
The Daily News of Open Water Swimming: All Hail To The Int'l Self-Transcendence Marathon ...: "Jim Boucher provided the support for 63-year-old Ellery McGowan in the 26.4K 23rd International Self-Transcendence Marathon Swim in Lake Zu..."
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Friday, 20 August 2010
Lake Zurich Swim - Training
Just want to give a wrap up of my training for my Lake Zurich Marathon swim.
Below are my training regimes for LZ and Rotto and if you notice there are some big differences.
Lake Zurich Training
18 Weeks
Total Miles 167.4359241
Total Kilometres 269.462
Rottnest Channel Training
16 Weeks
Total Miles 283.376332
Total Kilometres 411.977607
LZ was 2 weeks longer but shorter mileage than Rotto!
This was not very good and made all the difference.
Main Reasons -> mainly comes down to injuries. Was doing things different and wanted to mix it up. I usually only swim FC and only FC for everything. In the middle of the LZ training I started to put BF, BS, and weights into the mix. This caused a lot of unusual soreness and cramping for a couple of weeks. I pushed through these issues and it just got worse and worse with ending early and taking days off. In the end this is where I paid the price. I was in and out of the water for 2 weeks when I should have been peaking my training.
This is a valuable learning experience for the future!
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