2swim4life - Swim 24 miles in 24 hours

[hillwall]

I've just entered this

http://www.2swim4life.co.uk/

You swim 1 mile, on the hour, every hour, for 24 hours.

26th April 2013, Guildford Lido. £50. You are allowed a wetsuit if you wish.

Has anyone else done this before? Anyone got any hints or tips.

My guess it will get pretty cold during the night and warming up between swims will be tough so plenty of warm clothing and about a million towels will be required.

Should be interesting.

[veggieboy]

I think a friends wife did it last year at Guildford as part of her Channel swim build up, although she may have only done a 12 hour stint, can't quite remember

If I recall correctly she really suffered with the cold and also had real nutrition issues as she just was not used to the cumulative effects of exhaustion at the time.

I would think that hot soup will be your friend

As an aside my kids' swim teacher swum 36 km in a pool in 10 hrs just before Christmas 2011 (thats 1000 lengths of a 36m pool). I am seeing him next week end and will see if he has any tips. ( He actually ended up doing 52km in 2012- cos he could), but had to stop as he was teaching swim school 15 mins later

The video is below. Pay particular attention to the last length about a minute in - it will put a smile on your face



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfaQhX6fUyw
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[Nobbie]

Wow, that sounds epic in it's dullness. Swimming 24 miles is bad enough, but speading it over 24 Hours so you have to hang around in just mind bending. Are you sure it's not some special recruitment event for special forces

[hillwall]

[RiRi]

I think it sounds great. I'd definitely like a go. I wouldn't get much rest each hour though, and I'd be struggling to fit a mile in per hour towards the end.

Does sound like a good training session for a continuous deca though.

And Ted could just about stand on his toes at the deep bit, if needed.
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[KP nut]

I'm impressed! Sounds like it will get very tough towards the end. Not sure I could cope with stop/start all the time. You have to actively re-commit 24 times. Whereas in 24 hour runs you can disengage brain and plod on (so I am told). You just have drag your ass out of aid stations once every 2-3 hours.
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[Davem]

Would be a nice way to spend my 53rd birthday. Not.

Good luck with that Will. As others have said, good training for the A2A and Continuous Deca.
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[Son of Fedor]

Cheers 'hillwall'. After seeing your post late last night I managed to get myself entered as well just before the cut off
Methinks it'll be much harder mentally than physically to be honest, cos after all a 1600m isn't that far. However, at 3 in the morning when you've already done 17 miles and you've still got 7 to go it might just catch you by the danglies and get you thinking that you'd much rather be tucked up in a nice warm bed as opposed to splashing round a single digit lido
Good luck with your training pal and look forward to meeting you in sunny Guildford.
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[Sir Velo]

[quote="Veggieboy"]I think a friends wife did it last year at Guildford as part of her Channel swim build up, although she may have only done a 12 hour stint, can't quite remember

If I recall correctly she really suffered with the cold and also had real nutrition issues as she just was not used to the cumulative effects of exhaustion at the time.

Veggieboy, sounds like Sue. Yes she is doing it again this year. I think the 24miles swim, again in preparation for more long distance swimming. She also has the 'cold water championships' to do at Tooting first. Now that takes some doing in this weather, still it could be worse as it is actually quite mild at the moment.

SV

[veggieboy]

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[salad_dodger]

Wish I'd heard about this event before entries closed. Shame as it sounds like a fantastic challenge. Best of luck to all who have entered!

[hillwall]

Either I'm reading it differently but the entry is still available until 1st April. Unless everyone has suddenly gone american on us.

I can't see anywere that says it's full.

I'm going to be using this as a test event to try different nutrition as well as dealing with the cold and sleep deprivation but in a controlled environment. Should be very interesting.

[chrise]

Ill check out the dates at work tomorrow. I actually quite fancy doing this Will.

Definitly something different, and as Dave says good training for a deca, not that im going to be doing it!!!!
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[salad_dodger]

My mistake re the closing date - entries actually close on April 1st. Just need to find someone to act as 'buddy' for the event now...

[hillwall]

Be good to have some other TTers present. Wetsuits are optional and I doubt it will be that warm at the end of April.

Just need to work out some kind of nutritional/resting plan.