I’ve been doing mile swims (70 1/2 laps for my gym’s outdoor 25 yard pool) since I’ve been injured and I’m wondering if 25 minutes for a mile is any good for a distance runner with no swim experience or if I should try something else for cross training. I don’t know how to do flip turns so I just turn around w/out executing a flip turn!
Yes, that is a solid time. I am a reasonably competitive triathlete and my fastest time for 1500m, in a pool that is known to be fast, is 22m22s.
injured my achilles wrote:
I’ve been doing mile swims (70 1/2 laps for my gym’s outdoor 25 yard pool) since I’ve been injured and I’m wondering if 25 minutes for a mile is any good for a distance runner with no swim experience or if I should try something else for cross training. I don’t know how to do flip turns so I just turn around w/out executing a flip turn!
A swimming "mile" is only 1650y so you really did more like 23 minutes
injured my achilles wrote:
I’ve been doing mile swims (70 1/2 laps for my gym’s outdoor 25 yard pool) since I’ve been injured and I’m wondering if 25 minutes for a mile is any good for a distance runner with no swim experience or if I should try something else for cross training. I don’t know how to do flip turns so I just turn around w/out executing a flip turn!
That is certainly good for someone with no swim experience.
The unfortunate thing about that is the better you are at swimming, the less cross training benefit you'll actually get from it
Here are the USA Swimming Age Group time standards. A “B” time roughly correlated to the 45th percentile. These are for club swimmers. Technique is huge in swimming, so you can be fat and have a good time or be Kipchoge and sink.
So why can I only swim a mile in 38 minutes?
I'd suggest posting this question to LetsSwim.com
billius greywall wrote:
The unfortunate thing about that is the better you are at swimming, the less cross training benefit you'll actually get from it
Why?
injured my achilles wrote:
billius greywall wrote:
The unfortunate thing about that is the better you are at swimming, the less cross training benefit you'll actually get from it
Why?
Better swimmers have better technique and are faster because they’re just much more efficient. So they can swim much faster for the same energy/power/effort output as someone with worse technique.
It’s not like running where you more or less go faster by pushing harder and you’re just limited by your fitness.
You can change tour technique and become faster at an easier effort instantaneously if you can maintain the better technique. Before it becomes natural muscle memory, you need to concentrate on maintaining the better technique. Give it a try. It’s nuts!
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