Hey, I was just wondering about something.
We have a soph on my team who ran 53.1 for 400 as a frosh. He swims in the winter, and never ran the 800 as a frosh. I've heard horror stories about the 8k total workouts that the swim team had to do, so he has a solid base.
How do swimmers generally fair in the 800? Have you heard any success stories about swimmers as 800 runners?
I ama runner and I swam all summer because I was injured and when I ame back after 2.5 months off, I was able to run only 40 secs slower than my Pr. In the summer I would do 1 hr one day the next day 1.5 hrs and switch off every day.
I was actually talking about swimming as a sport as opposed to x-training.
webb was considered one of the east coast's best breast strokers in his age group before he took up running seriously & that wasn't till his sophmore year of hs. he ran his frosh time of 4:2?.?? still more focused on swimming than running.
I swim and run the 800 for a D1 college, it works well for me :)
Danielle JT wrote:
I swim and run the 800 for a D1 college, it works well for me :)
Danielle, I think they are talking about ELITE, VARSITY, FAST runners and swimmers. Not just walk ons who are allowed to workout with the team. If you were good at either sport, you wouldnt be doing BOTH
There's a pretty decent American miler who I believe started off as a swimmer when he was much younger (I think he dropped it around middle school). His name is Webb or something like that.
come on now folks...lets at least read all the posts before we try to make a funny post
BCT wrote:
There's a pretty decent American miler who I believe started off as a swimmer when he was much younger (I think he dropped it around middle school). His name is Webb or something like that.
wanna-be wrote:
Danielle JT wrote:I swim and run the 800 for a D1 college, it works well for me :)
Danielle, I think they are talking about ELITE, VARSITY, FAST runners and swimmers. Not just walk ons who are allowed to workout with the team. If you were good at either sport, you wouldnt be doing BOTH
While writing your abrupt and rude comment you answered the thread question accidently...because your last sentence says it all-If you are good at either sport you "couldn't" be doing both. Each sport takes a full-time year 'round committment to be elite, and it is impossible to be great at both.
Serious swim training as a youngster has led to pretty good running careers later on. Swimmers tend to learn how to train hard (and don't face the injury problems that many runners do, especially in the early years). The when they become runners they already know how to work hard and the discomfort of running is not new to them. As for swimming part of the year and running part of the year (unless forced to do so), you won't have as good a chance of reaching elite status as you would concentrating on one year round. There is more than cardivascular conditioning that needs attention.