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!

Trap Injury

I pulled my trapizius muscle swimming yesterday.  I am gutted!  Started my warmup yesterday by the usually 1k.  I got 960m and started to push a bit and bam felt a pop on my left shoulder.  Kicked a bit on my back getting some full stretches in.  I should of just got out but was more concernced with getting 30k in for the week.  This was dip one on top of it, with a goal of 2.5.  Got that but the second dip that night I was going to get 4.5k.  When I got into the office I started to feel a neck pain, thought nothing about it as it was just a nag.  Well this morning, I was so stiff and hurting.

My goal was going to be 30k for this week and now that looks like a pipe dream!  I had two full weeks to get 30k a week done, not happening now this week.  If I am lucky I will hit 20k!  So I am on RICE now, and just in pain.  This has happen in the past and it usually takes two days for it to go away.   With a bit of soreness on my return.  I have to take an angle on this and just happy it did not happen before the Rotto Swim...