100k per week

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Chaps,
Until I sat down for lunch opposite an ex-Olympic swimmer a few days
ago, I never dreamed anyone would have such a mileage schedule. Has
anyone ever stuck to that kind of distance for any length of time, and
is it about right even today?
Cheers

Some decades ago, when mega distance was still new and seemingly the answer,
I remember reading of a russian doing 30K a day.

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Chaps,
Until I sat down for lunch opposite an ex-Olympic swimmer a few days
ago, I never dreamed anyone would have such a mileage schedule. Has
anyone ever stuck to that kind of distance for any length of time, and
is it about right even today?
Cheers

Some decades ago, when mega distance was still new and seemingly the

answer,

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I remember reading of a russian doing 30K a day.

The better question should be, how long does that take them, and what else
do they do... do they even have a job/career besides swimming?

Micheal

I feel almost lazy with my 2km a day swims
Track my progress -- www.geocities.com/swimmer_spe

I don't know if they swim that much, but it is definitely not
impossible. Timewise, olympians may train six to seven hours a day.
maybe, three hours in the morning and three in the evening.

Supossing that they can easily swim over three thousand an hour, they
would be swimming nine thousand every three hours. If they swim 15,000
thousand a day, that is over 100k a week.

Andres

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Some decades ago, when mega distance was still new and seemingly the

answer,

Quoted message said:

I remember reading of a russian doing 30K a day.

The better question should be, how long does that take them, and what else
do they do... do they even have a job/career besides swimming?

It was in the days of Soviet Army Officers having "jobs" as discus throwers,
weightlifters, swimmers, etcetera.

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Chaps,
Until I sat down for lunch opposite an ex-Olympic swimmer a few days ago,
I never dreamed anyone would have such a mileage schedule. Has anyone ever
stuck to that kind of distance for any length of time, and is it about
right even today?
Cheers

In the mid 70's our club team would get up to 100,000 per week during peak
training. This was during the summer when we didn't have school. We had
three workouts a day. Up to 3 hours in the morning, an hour at noon and
another 2 hours in the evening. We would max out at 20,000+ per day.
17,000+ was more the norm. Under 15,000 and we wondered what was wrong. We
only rested for one meet, unless you qualified for nationals. I don't
remember thinking we were all that unique at the time. We didn't think much
about it. It's just what we did.

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Chaps,
Until I sat down for lunch opposite an ex-Olympic swimmer a few days ago,
I never dreamed anyone would have such a mileage schedule. Has anyone ever
stuck to that kind of distance for any length of time, and is it about
right even today?
Cheers

In the mid 70's our club team would get up to 100,000 per week during peak
training. This was during the summer when we didn't have school. We had
three workouts a day. Up to 3 hours in the morning, an hour at noon and
another 2 hours in the evening. We would max out at 20,000+ per day.
17,000+ was more the norm. Under 15,000 and we wondered what was wrong. We
only rested for one meet, unless you qualified for nationals. I don't
remember thinking we were all that unique at the time. We didn't think much
about it. It's just what we did.

Yeah, he said he was doing that kind of mileage back in the 70s.
Thanks chaps, I'm going to have to up my distance if I'm to get back to
my best......;~)