Monday, February 01, 2010
9:30 AM | 
Posted by
Liam Maher
Well the seven of us "Aspirants" Channel that is !!
had a great training swim on Friday last.
The swim started in Scource 25m Swimming pool at 07.30 and our goal was to swim for 8 hours, which we managed, finishing at 15.40 having swum a total of 21,500 meters (860 lenghts of the pool)
Eilish Burns our Coach set out the session for us in 4km slots. I can honestly say that 6 hours had passed before I looked at the Clock for the 1st time.
After some jostling for position sence prevailed and Rob got us all in tow and from then on the perfect pace was swam for the duration.
I had stocked up on Pasta and Chicken for a few days in advance of the swim, a big bowl of porridge and my pieces of fruit .........the morning of the swim.....
I ate a combination of grapes/blueberries and orange/bananna/kiwi during the swim while drinking 6 ltrs of liquid.
We had a 15 min break when I ate Pasta again.....
The biggest fear I had was the Leg Cramp Issue..... thanks to a few words of advise from coach I changed my liquid intake to a mixture of Water/Cordial and a pinch of salt. Not a Cramp insight!!
Our last set of the day was a 1500m hard and I was thrilled to have plenty in the tank to be able to take it out while Rob, Donal and Ciaran stuck to my toes.
After a warmdown 6 of us got out of the pool and watched Donal Buckley swim his last hour on his own.....(he won't be late again :-) )
I must admit I thought it was mad doing such a long session in the Pool but hey its done and it went very well for all of us.
Thanks Coach !!
Liam
had a great training swim on Friday last.
The swim started in Scource 25m Swimming pool at 07.30 and our goal was to swim for 8 hours, which we managed, finishing at 15.40 having swum a total of 21,500 meters (860 lenghts of the pool)
Eilish Burns our Coach set out the session for us in 4km slots. I can honestly say that 6 hours had passed before I looked at the Clock for the 1st time.
After some jostling for position sence prevailed and Rob got us all in tow and from then on the perfect pace was swam for the duration.
I had stocked up on Pasta and Chicken for a few days in advance of the swim, a big bowl of porridge and my pieces of fruit .........the morning of the swim.....
I ate a combination of grapes/blueberries and orange/bananna/kiwi during the swim while drinking 6 ltrs of liquid.
We had a 15 min break when I ate Pasta again.....
The biggest fear I had was the Leg Cramp Issue..... thanks to a few words of advise from coach I changed my liquid intake to a mixture of Water/Cordial and a pinch of salt. Not a Cramp insight!!
Our last set of the day was a 1500m hard and I was thrilled to have plenty in the tank to be able to take it out while Rob, Donal and Ciaran stuck to my toes.
After a warmdown 6 of us got out of the pool and watched Donal Buckley swim his last hour on his own.....(he won't be late again :-) )
I must admit I thought it was mad doing such a long session in the Pool but hey its done and it went very well for all of us.
Thanks Coach !!
Liam
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