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Do we swim on Race Rehearsals?

JClisheJClishe
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For some reason I could have sworn that we did a 1 hour swim, but now that I'm looking at the plan again, I don't see it. Was I just imagining things?

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  • tuckermtuckerm
    You are more than likely thinking of the "big day". If we were going to do an hour swim along with 6+hr bike than something like another hour run you are looking at 8hrs without including admin time. RnP aren't that cruel.
  • vabchtriguyvabchtriguy

    The schedule has us doing our RR swim the day before we do our RR bike/run.  The Big Day does have a swim with a shorter, albeit harder effort bike/run.

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    But IF we have the time and flexibility, it is advisable to move the RR swim to immediately before the bike and make it a REALLY big day?  Thoughts, experiences?  Too much?

  • Carrie ChavezCarrie Chavez
    I personally do a swim before my RR if I have time( meaning enough childcare). The swim changes things for me. It does tire me out and stiffens my back and shoulders so practicing that is key for me. If you have time, add a swim. I don't think it needs to be the whole 2.4 or 1.2 depending on which RR you are doing. Again this is my opinion. I have lots of IM race experience and have seen the benefit of swim then bike then run practice.
  • Coach RichCoach Rich

    The Big Day is NOT a 6hr bike.

    No, we don't schedule a swim before the 112/6 RR. For many people, a good swim venue and a good RR bike course are not located near each other and you'd lose a lot of post-swim bike mojo if you had to drive a ways to your bike course after the swim. That said, if you can do a swim and then mostly-jump on your bike and do the 112/6 brick, that would be great. As Carrie said, the swim does change things a bit, especially your neck and back, and you may discover some bike fit issues with the swim/bike combination that you wouldn't necessarily with just the bike.

  • tgarsontgarson

    I've done a fair amount of RR's according to the plan and I appreciate the sentiment on this one that for most people, the logistics of your RR are hard enough already without trying to add the RR swim into the mix.

    That said, I did my final RR last year for IMWI to start with the MOWS (madison open water swim), a 2.4 mile 'race' that draws a few hundred people every year to go out and do the exact IMWI swim course complete with buoys and people thrashing around on top of eachother. Went straight from this to my bike and rode the actual race course for my RR.

    Granted, most people are not going to be so fortunate to have such a precise replica of their race laid out for them (on the actual course) to do for their final RR, but I felt that it made a hughe difference in terms of my mental preparedness going into a first time IM. I definitely felt a difference overall too, between the logistics of getting to the race, getting to my car afterwards, getting out on the bike course, getting back, getting out onto the run, it all ended up in me just being out there for what felt like forever. That "I've been out here all day... and I'm still going" feeling probably was about as close as I could have come to knowing what race day was going to be like.

  • Jeff UnruhJeff Unruh
    Speaking HIM here...

    My 2 RR were without a swim and I certainly noticed a difference this past weekend at Muncie 70.3. For HIM at least I will try to do one of the RR (probably the 2nd) with a swim before.

    Shoulders were certainly tighter but that worked itself out over a few miles. I felt ITB, hip and glut tightness that I haven't had yet in any training rides. I was focusing on rotation (hip) during the swim and think that might have been a cause.

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