Hey guys, I’m Jan from sailfish and I’d love to see you next Tuesday, October 22 at 7:00am at White Sands Beach in Kona - for a wonderful easy morning practice swim!
For those of you who don’t know me, I’ve had some decent swim times in Kona over the last 20+ years and I also own the sailfish brand.
I might have some great last minute tips for your Kona swim and of course we’ll have some give-aways as well.
Hope to see you on the beach next week 
Jan
Understatement of the year!
Wish I could be there…good luck!
@Kid
I won’t be in Kona but I do love my sailfish One7 wetsuit!
I’ll be there with bells on!
Thanks Jan!
I’m not necessarily a sailfish user (yet), but I’ll be happy to join you & fellow STers there. See you!
Super guys, this will be great fun!
This is sooooo cool having Jan S come here and offer the tips for swimming in Kona. Congrats on all your overall swim wins in Kona. I did not realize you are behind the Sailfish brand. Well done on all fronts!!!
Something tells me that most of us won’t want to put in a two decades of 50km swim weeks though to swim fast in Kona! This is ST…its all about bike gear,not swimming lots and certainly not about swim technique ( more like : where is my wetsuit,where are my fins, pull buoy, paddles etc). OK rant off, let’s hear what Jan tells us!!!
No worries, we’ll condense it to one decade of 100km swim weeks - should lead to similar results 
See you next week!
wait, one decade of 100km swim weeks, that’s 33 hrs per week at 3000m per hour !!! All kidding aside I believe when Lucy Charles had her injuries last summer she went on the 50km per week swim program (and I don’t know how much bike) to keep her fitness for return to running!!!
When you were swimming (pre triathlon days) what was an average in swim heavy block week?
Everyone who shows up will get a Slowtwitch/Sailfish Swim Cap
Heavy swim blocks in pre-triathlon days were actually around 70-80k a week…
…on a more general note, the value of (outstanding) general fitness / conditioning that comes from (higher volume) swimming (not only during injury periods) is still heavly underrated up until today, both pros and amateurs included… IMHO.
If I were swimming, you could combine the brands and call it “SlowFish” LOL
good luck & have fun, all
I’ll be there, I just hope easy means easy for the average simmer, not the 80k a week swimmer
Not 100% sold on that
Recently I worked my way up to 40,000 yards a week swimming.
Bike and run didn’t show any of that endurance/fitness
How many weeks were you at 40,000 yards. Was it several months, or a few weeks. I assume 40,000 yards is in the range of 13 hrs and I assume on top of that you were doing SOME bike and run? Probably 20 hrs weeks? It could just be fatigue during that block until you unload, but however you cut it, 20 hrs weeks are 20 hrs weeks and fitness will rise across all sports, the question is how much fatigue do you have to get over to see the benefits of said 20 hrs per weeks!!! Also how much kicking were you doing (dolphin, on all 4 sides, flutter kick on all 4 sides, breast stroke kick). If you do 10x200m IM legs only daily for a month and ride your bike 4 hrs per week, I take a bet that your biking ends up being pretty good (warning N=1 sample when I could not use my arms from an accident, but every time I do a high volume and intensity swim block the biking is solid. Swimming is another story. I can’t really assess that as my running is just piss poor these days. I woudl have loved to see in my 20’s what my running would look like with 30 km per week of running and 30km per week of swimming versus 90km per week of running…but alas, I can’t go back in time.
you bet!
Sorry to hear about your running
I completely understand
I only got up to 40,000 yards per week for the last month
Maybe I was doing things wrong. I don’t know
If you have suggestions, ideas and/or recommendations I am all ears. I would like to try to learn more. Thank you
I wanted to prove to myself to I could significantly improve if I just set aside enough time and dedicated myself
Sort of like what a young child would do when starting swimming
I have a long term goal 3 years out when I age up.
I Set aside 8 months for swim only. No biking no running
2500 yards of kicking each day.
I did end up 13 seconds faster per 100 at about all distances from 100s to 1500
After 40 years of trying to swim I was happy with the success. But alas I am still far behind my competition who can do half distance swim with wetsuit in less than 26 minutes 
Side it another competitor (In the 55 - 60 age group) who can do 26.5 miles per hour in Half Distance Aquabike. So a national championship is most likely a bridge too far for me lol
So happy with that. Of course my running and biking fell off a cliff
So I am back to biking and a tiny bit of running and cut the swimming back to 5x/week 2000 yards. For now I am only doing Olympic distance Aquabike races so believe that should be good
I am going to give Aquabike a try
I think if you do 3 years of 20000m per week swimming and keep up 3-5 hrs riding and some jogging, your biking will be strong (it looks like you stopped biking entirely for a bit, so maybe that’s the crossover challenge). That’s my 2 cents.
If you end up 13 seconds faster per 100m that is huge progress but in the context of multi sport, 10 seconds per 100m, is 150 seconds over an olympic. A fast transition and being strong on the bike and the gap can be closes at an age group level so the question is which sport to put time on.
Thank you for the suggestions
13 seconds per 100 yards.
I am currently doing 15 hours a week on the bike
Before the bike hiatus I was able to do 240 watts (24.04 mph) for half distance Aquabike.
Which is 2.5 mph too slow YIKES!
For sure need to work on the aero aspect.