Here are week 10's workouts.
This is the last week of the Tarpon Challenge. I'll be enshrining these workouts in obvious places on Slowtwitch so these will be easy to find (likewise the Guppy Challenge workouts for the less skillful swimmers).
I hope these 10 weeks have motivated you and brought you to a new level in your swimming. These workouts here are about what I do. I've been a triathlete for 30 years, and am not a great swimmer but usually come out pretty near the front of the AG, mostly because the older you get the more athletes in your AG trend toward runner/cyclist types who don't have a strong swim background. So I wave goodbye to Monty and Halfspeed when the gun goes off, and am one level down - until I get out of the water, then things generally trend toward the upswing, esp during the run (I am a runner at heart and always will be).
I'll repeat workouts like these on the 1:30 base (SCY) if I'm feeling frisky and the 1:40 base if I'm not. I take great consolation in the breathing pattern that I've developed over the past few years that allows me to breathe when necessary rather than on a given pattern. This was not anything I needed in my 20s and 30s but, because of the declining capacity of one's lungs when one is in one's 50s, it's a life saver and this skill is probably not just metaphorically a life saver.
All the above is just to say that the workouts over the past 10 weeks have been for the 1:25 to 1:40 Ironman swimmer who wanted or wants to improve that time, but if you're a 58min to 1:12 Ironman swimmer I think these workouts are pretty much par for the course. If you can do these workouts in this challenge you're doing the workouts a swimmer will do who's at or near that 1hr range; maybe the 26min to 31min 70.3 swimmer; and the 20min to 23min olympic swimmer.
In this final week Dave Luscan is our guest coach, and as you'll see a lot of these guests write things that are familiar. Dave's workout is pretty similar in theme to Ian Murray's workout of last week.
I would be obliged if some of you would email me, PM me, or post here to this thread and tell me what kinds of workouts you liked, what you didn't, what helped you, what you didn't understand, what you wished you could get help with but didn't, what you 'd like to see and haven't.
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week1.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week2.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week3.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week4.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week5.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week6.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week7.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week8.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week9.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week10.pdf
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman
This is the last week of the Tarpon Challenge. I'll be enshrining these workouts in obvious places on Slowtwitch so these will be easy to find (likewise the Guppy Challenge workouts for the less skillful swimmers).
I hope these 10 weeks have motivated you and brought you to a new level in your swimming. These workouts here are about what I do. I've been a triathlete for 30 years, and am not a great swimmer but usually come out pretty near the front of the AG, mostly because the older you get the more athletes in your AG trend toward runner/cyclist types who don't have a strong swim background. So I wave goodbye to Monty and Halfspeed when the gun goes off, and am one level down - until I get out of the water, then things generally trend toward the upswing, esp during the run (I am a runner at heart and always will be).
I'll repeat workouts like these on the 1:30 base (SCY) if I'm feeling frisky and the 1:40 base if I'm not. I take great consolation in the breathing pattern that I've developed over the past few years that allows me to breathe when necessary rather than on a given pattern. This was not anything I needed in my 20s and 30s but, because of the declining capacity of one's lungs when one is in one's 50s, it's a life saver and this skill is probably not just metaphorically a life saver.
All the above is just to say that the workouts over the past 10 weeks have been for the 1:25 to 1:40 Ironman swimmer who wanted or wants to improve that time, but if you're a 58min to 1:12 Ironman swimmer I think these workouts are pretty much par for the course. If you can do these workouts in this challenge you're doing the workouts a swimmer will do who's at or near that 1hr range; maybe the 26min to 31min 70.3 swimmer; and the 20min to 23min olympic swimmer.
In this final week Dave Luscan is our guest coach, and as you'll see a lot of these guests write things that are familiar. Dave's workout is pretty similar in theme to Ian Murray's workout of last week.
I would be obliged if some of you would email me, PM me, or post here to this thread and tell me what kinds of workouts you liked, what you didn't, what helped you, what you didn't understand, what you wished you could get help with but didn't, what you 'd like to see and haven't.
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week1.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week2.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week3.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week4.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week5.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week6.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week7.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week8.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week9.pdf
http://www.slowtwitch.com/..._challenge_week10.pdf
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman