In my second IM last year (Florida) I swam 1:12, swimming was never a strong point for me so I was pleased with my time. I decided I would try to shave a couple minutes off my time for this year, unfortunately I crashed my bike in May.
The result was a broken collar bone, I had it plated and began recovery. I was finally cleared to swim by the end of July, this left me about 8 weeks to get in swim shape, still having pain I returned to Doc who diagnosed a torn rotator cuff, probably from initial impact of crash. I decided I would work through it rather than miss my upcoming IM. I managed about 12 swims prior to my IM, all ranged from 1.5k to 3k in length.
I swam a total of 12 times in a year and managed to swim a 00:55 IM. Clearly my work paid off, I swam faster than most AG’ers can ever dream. Even if some call the swim a joke, I swam faster than most AG’ers that didn’t do Chatt.
So this is my brag thread about how I swam a 00:55 Ironman swim, if you didn’t do Chatt then I PROBABLY SWAM FASTER THAN YOU!
Ok… so are you going to tell us the story? What type of workouts brought about this amazing improvement?
He broke his collarbone on purpose to get extreme early vertical forearm range of motion. Duh.
In my second IM last year (Florida) I swam 1:12, swimming was never a strong point for me so I was pleased with my time. I decided I would try to shave a couple minutes off my time for this year, unfortunately I crashed my bike in May.
The result was a broken collar bone, I had it plated and began recovery. I was finally cleared to swim by the end of July, this left me about 8 weeks to get in swim shape, still having pain I returned to Doc who diagnosed a torn rotator cuff, probably from initial impact of crash. I decided I would work through it rather than miss my upcoming IM. I managed about 12 swims prior to my IM, all ranged from 1.5k to 3k in length.
I swam a total of 12 times in a year and managed to swim a 00:55 IM. Clearly my work paid off, I swam faster than most AG’ers can ever dream. Even if some call the swim a joke, I swam faster than most AG’ers that didn’t do Chatt.
So this is my brag thread about how I swam a 00:55 Ironman swim, if you didn’t do Chatt then I PROBABLY SWAM FASTER THAN YOU!
You never mentioned if you drafted or not. An important fact when you’re discussing your swimming training and performances. Because if you sat on someones tail the whole 3.8km then that’s a massive chunk of time saved - 10+ minutes?