My master swim is going hold one of these soon. Anyone ever do this or something comparable that care to share their experience?
Our group of Masters swimmers does it every New Year. I find that alternating 500yds freestyle with 500yds with bouy and paddles makes it much easier as it breaks it up mentaly.
Lots of guys on here have done those for New Year’s or as a birthday set. Some of the fish did them pretty young too.
Also, I believe JToland on here did 125x100 around New Year’s.
I personally haven’t done them. I’ve done workouts of about 8k before, but I have yet to get to 10k. Planning on doing it sometime this summer.
If I had to give advice, it would be the same as any other advice for an aggressive training set. Choose a pace you can handle. 100 repeats is a lot. You might be able to start in a faster lane then move to a slower one if you want. Or just gut it out in the faster lane.
Be diligent with your stroke when fatigue sets in…no need to cement bad habits. You’ll make huge gains if you can figure out how to hold on after 6k for another hour.
I’ve done it once. Was supposed to have a couple people join me when I was about 40-50 into it, but they never showed up. I broke it up by anywhere between 5 and 15 at a time whether IM, kick, free, pull, etc. Some intervals were hard, some were easy. All in all, it averaged out to a fairly pedestrian pace.
We did that set once a year in college. I don’t miss it and can’t imagine ever doing it again voluntarily.
Did it every year in college during training camp. Usually LCM, although one year we did a set of 6 x 1500 instead (LCM) . Coach never gave us an easy off time either, it was probably on 1:20 base or something like that…
Brutal…
My master swim is going hold one of these soon. Anyone ever do this or something comparable that care to share their experience?
I’ve done this several times. Try to be fairly well rested for this workout, start out very slowly and then very gradually build your pace as you go through it, then go as hard as you can for the last 5-10 repeats, and then take it very easy for 2 or 3 or even 4 days after. I would think this should be your main effort for the week, with little or no other hard training that week. IMO, it is very easy to treat this very long set too nonchalantly by not resting enough before and after it, and then your swim speed can just go down the toilet b/c you’ve never really recovered from that one long hard workout.
I couldn’t imagine… I did 50x100 on xmas eve and that was about all I could take.
My master swim is going hold one of these soon. Anyone ever do this or something comparable that care to share their experience?
I’ve done this several times. Try to be fairly well rested for this workout, start out very slowly and then very gradually build your pace as you go through it, then go as hard as you can for the last 5-10 repeats, and then take it very easy for 2 or 3 or even 4 days after. I would think this should be your main effort for the week, with little or no other hard training that week. IMO, it is very easy to treat this very long set too nonchalantly by not resting enough before and after it, and then your swim speed can just go down the toilet b/c you’ve never really recovered from that one long hard workout.
We usually did it as one of 2 practices that day, near the end of training camp. Rest? What’s that?
Agreed. Did it multiple times in my youth and have no desire to do it again. There was nothing interesting and no breaking it. our coach set it out as simply 100x100 on the hardest interval he felt you should be able to make. One year I made about 75 on the 1:05 before missing and having to fall back to 1:10 for the remainder. It was brutal, which was the point.
Done it probably a dozen or so times. This year was the first time since 2000 that I swam it. Not too tough just long. Same pool as the first time I swam it in too. FYI I was 11 at that time.
I did it in high school. The team went to an all you can eat buffet afterwards. The set was okay. The buffet was awesome.
Tried it a few times in HS. Never managed it. 100 x 100 on 1:30. Coach called it an SOS
I did nearly every year from high school to age 40…
Hardest was one in college that was actually 100 x 100 on 1:10
Most times it was multiple sets that added up to 100, like 10x10x100 on varying intervals.
Did it before Thanksgiving with Masters team. Actually good fun. They mixed it up with pull, fins, kick, IM, back-free, etc. in groups of 10. About 1/3 did 100x100, another 1/3 100x75 and the last 100x50 so that everyone could stay on the same interval (1:30, SCY).
My masters team does this annually the week before Thanksgiving every year. Honestly it wasn’t too bad since it was broken up into 10 sets of 10 with varying stroke/equipment being used. Got kind of boring at the end and I just wanted to leave and get a beer and some pizza.
One dude did hold sub 1:05 for every single one of them. Most of us just wanted to get through it though.
My master swim is going hold one of these soon. Anyone ever do this or something comparable that care to share their experience?
This sounds like the most ridiculously boring swim set known to man. I could probably think of a lot more interesting and beneficial ways to swim 10K.
Did it before Thanksgiving with Masters team. Actually good fun. They mixed it up with pull, fins, kick, IM, back-free, etc. in groups of 10. About 1/3 did 100x100, another 1/3 100x75 and the last 100x50 so that everyone could stay on the same interval (1:30, SCY).
This sounds much better than swimming it straight.
Out tri club hosts this every year first Sunday of February. Fun event. Did the 100x100 last year and maybe I will attempt it again in the future. I did the 50x100 this year.
Every lane did something different. Some used all the swim toys with some sets and some didn’t. My lane did 10x(10x100) on 1:30 taking a minute break after each 10. Then a longer break after the 5k. Breaking it into 10s made it go by quick.
Did it for the first time just before last Xmas. We had three lane for different speed (I was in the slowest). In my lane we were 6, sharing the work, breaking up by series of 10, all toys allowed. I used toward the end pull buoy and paddles. It was more boring half way through then at the end, but I was pretty tired and happy to stop. I’m not convinced it is very useful training.