https://swimswam.com/katie-ledecky-practice/
This set was performed in May 2016 and show off how remarkable Ledecky’s engine is:
12 x 200 short course yards
4 @ 2:10 (avg 1:56’s)
4 @ 2:05 (avg 1:52’s)
4 @ 2:00 Her times: 1:48, 1:49, 1:48, 1:47.4
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Amazing! Thank you for sharing. She is one of my favorite athletes right now – incredible speed and endurance.
Yep, she is amazing to watch in training too… so much perfection.
Will go watch her race tomorrow … Stanford v Texas.
Stanford got 3 Rio Olympians (Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel, Lia Neal, and Kassidy Cook) on the team…crazy!
B.T.W., the pool is fast…not that it matters…
Event will be streamed at:
http://pac-12.com/live/stanford-university
https://swimswam.com/katie-ledecky-practice/
This set was performed in May 2016 and show off how remarkable Ledecky’s engine is:
12 x 200 short course yards
4 @ 2:10 (avg 1:56’s)
4 @ 2:05 (avg 1:52’s)
4 @ 2:00 Her times: 1:48, 1:49, 1:48, 1:47.4
Every time I see a thread about cool swim workouts, I hope it’s going to be a 4000 IM.
Toughh weekend for Texas with Cal yesterday and Stanford less than 24 hours later.
Ahh, I miss college. We had weekends with a dual meet on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And no, I don’t mean a three-day invite. Three different dual meets in three different places against different teams.
Stanford got 3 Rio Olympians (Katie Ledecky, Simone Manuel, Lia Neal, and Kassidy Cook) on the team…crazy!
I think you and I are using different systems of counting.
Now I have coffee on my screen. Thanks.
Now I have coffee on my screen. Thanks.
LOL…my nephew had a perfect score on his SAT’s and did not get into Standford. I told him he should have learned to swim fast. He’s over at Cornell. I am working on my younger nephew’s soccer skills on the outside chance that gets him in because clearly academics are not the path to get into college (how upside down is that?).
Ahh, I miss college. We had weekends with a dual meet on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And no, I don’t mean a three-day invite. Three different dual meets in three different places against different teams.
I hold that Americans do as well as they do in the international pools because they’re taught from an early age to race hard and often under less than perfect conditions or involving events you don’t love doing. The system in many other countries seems designed to generate great time trial swimmers who don’t have a clue how to win if the circumstances are anything less than perfect.
https://swimswam.com/katie-ledecky-practice/
This set was performed in May 2016 and show off how remarkable Ledecky’s engine is:
12 x 200 short course yards
4 @ 2:10 (avg 1:56’s)
4 @ 2:05 (avg 1:52’s)
4 @ 2:00 Her times: 1:48, 1:49, 1:48, 1:47.4
I’m supposed to be impressed by only 2400 SCY? . Pffft…I can swim 2400 SCY.
Every time I see a thread about cool swim workouts, I hope it’s going to be a 4000 IM.
I believe it was David Wharton who once did a 16000IM. Long course. Straight through.
The google confirms that workout:
Incredibly, Wharton once did a 16,000-meter individual medley in
practice – it took nearly four hours – and a 65,000-yard workout,
swimming for two hours and taking an hour off, in 24 hours.
That 65000 yard workout is more than 35 miles!
Stout.
I wonder how he decided on 16000. I mean, other than the fact that it’s divisible by four and crazy long. Why not 10k, or 12 or 20?
Good question!
The only thing I can think of, as the google machine doesn’t have any answers, is that the longest IM distance is 400. So, if he quadrupled that distance, it would only be 1600. So, why not ten times that distance or 40 times the original distance?
50 times the distance wouldn’t make sense.
Clearly.
I’d wager that’s a good guess. We also once drove (bus) 4+ hours, warmed up for 30 minutes, swam a long-format dual meet (200’s of strokes, 1650 instead of 1000…this is yards coz USA), drove 4+ hours home.
I have only come close to that since…I flew in same day for a half marathon and flew out same day…but the flights were only 45 minutes.
Speaking of college dual meets, Ledecky went a 1000 free in 9:10 this weekend in a training suit. Second fastest time ever in the event to her insane 8:59 about two years back and a new college standard.
Every time I see a thread about cool swim workouts, I hope it’s going to be a 4000 IM.
I believe it was David Wharton who once did a 16000IM. Long course. Straight through.
That is a special type of insanity. Holy shit.