Here's Week 2's workouts.
This week we feature a workout from our first "guest coach," our own Jordan Rapp, aka Rappstar. I erred toward choosing coaches that I thought had something to say to adult onset swimmers. Jordan qualifies, because he's a strong second pack pro swimmer off a background in... lacrosse. and rowing. To me, someone who can swim a non-wetsuit Ironman swim in 54 or 55 minutes, heading toward 52 or 53min (and Jordan is probably in that category at the moment) off a no-swim background has something particularly vital to say to those taking up swimming late.
Again, this challenge is for those who're swimming between 1:12 and 1:30 for an Ironman and would like to reduce that down 6 to 15 minutes. It's a 10-week challenge. Workouts and explanations here every monday morning for the next 10 weeks.
There is no need to join this challenge, formally, as this is going to become a staple series on Slowtwitch, along with the Guppy Challenge, to be commenced at any time, now, next week, next month, or next year. However, for those if you who want to join, here's a link to a challenge just created and you may feel free to do so. It's backdated to last monday. If you are starting the challenge this week, that is, a week late, just join in now and start logging workouts. Here are the 2 weeks' workouts to date.
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week1.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week2.pdf
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman
This week we feature a workout from our first "guest coach," our own Jordan Rapp, aka Rappstar. I erred toward choosing coaches that I thought had something to say to adult onset swimmers. Jordan qualifies, because he's a strong second pack pro swimmer off a background in... lacrosse. and rowing. To me, someone who can swim a non-wetsuit Ironman swim in 54 or 55 minutes, heading toward 52 or 53min (and Jordan is probably in that category at the moment) off a no-swim background has something particularly vital to say to those taking up swimming late.
Again, this challenge is for those who're swimming between 1:12 and 1:30 for an Ironman and would like to reduce that down 6 to 15 minutes. It's a 10-week challenge. Workouts and explanations here every monday morning for the next 10 weeks.
There is no need to join this challenge, formally, as this is going to become a staple series on Slowtwitch, along with the Guppy Challenge, to be commenced at any time, now, next week, next month, or next year. However, for those if you who want to join, here's a link to a challenge just created and you may feel free to do so. It's backdated to last monday. If you are starting the challenge this week, that is, a week late, just join in now and start logging workouts. Here are the 2 weeks' workouts to date.
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week1.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week2.pdf
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman