2017 EN 1Km Swim "Bring the Pain TT" Challenge

Brenda Ross

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Paul Hough

Brenda - is this a 2 week total swim volume challenge, or a single 1K TT challenge that must be conducted between Jan 15-30, 2017? I want to do this since I'm building volume for a 5K OWS on Dec 31, 2017. Yes, that is open water...Clearwater Beach. Wetsuit legal...probably in the 60s.

Elizabeth Hornak

woo hoo! I love to swim!

ironmarianne

looks good!

Brenda Ross

Paul - You swim 1km on the first day of the challenge for a benchmark and then you can swim as much or as little as you want for the 2 weeks and then at the end of the challenge you do another 1km swim test to see if you have improved your time.

Gareth Jenkins

Nice - I'm in. 17:04 to beat. Ouch.

Mark Lane

Did my first swim test on Monday, first time in the water since IMFL Nov 5. Having trouble finding the spreadsheets in this forum-link?

Brenda Ross

Oh no, okay, let's rectify that situation. Looks like my forum post got a little jacked up when the forums changed over. Here is the link to the document to record your info folks.

EN 2017 1km Swim "Bring the Pain TT" Challenge

John Culberson

@Paul: A great epic challenge. I'd prefer warm water and a speed skin ;-)
I'm ready to go 1K (SCY) today. Its been 4 months... probably going to "dog-it" and try to crush my time on Jan 30. Not sure that's going to go well.

Mark Lane

Got a 39" gain on just 2 weeks of swimming. Form a little sloppy, but a good effort.

John Culberson

Nope. My baseline swim level did not improve without work. It takes about two weeks of sucking air before I start to feel better. Planning to swim for two weeks meant... I still sucked air and went the same speed. At least I had three "short, hard" swims.