August 24th is World Marathon Swimming Day. Why? It is the date that Matthew Webb swam the English Channel on 24 Aug 1875.
In celebration of the day I just bettered my PR for the most time swam in the endless pool for a single workout. Swam over 12,000 yards in 3 hours. It was a good workout. 5 sets of 36 minutes with a minute for a quick drink in between. Odd sets swimming intervals, then even sets pulling intervals.
The world wouldn't be the same for me without one where a swim such as this hasn't been turned into such a legacy event.
2 comments:
Congratulations on a new PR! Three hours is a long swim. Did you have to restart your pool motor every 30 minutes, or is there a way to bypass this? I was reading that Endless Pools have an automatic 30 minute shut-off, which seems like it might be inconvenient if one is training for long open water swims. I would love to hear how your pool is working out for long training swims.
For manual control, you can set it to run for 90 minutes. If you want to swim longer without any manual modification, you can setup a workout with up to 20 sets, with each set anywhere from 10 seconds, to 1.5 hours, so technically, you can setup a workout to last as long as 30 hours.
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