And 8k in the pool it is

[mrs.jacinthe]

Dagnabbit.

R isn't feeling well and I'm not taking on an ows by myself.

Someone talk to me about how to entertain myself for 2.5 nonstop hours in the pool. Blech.

[chw57]

Well since my longest ever pool swim was only 4K, I'm not sure

Good luck! Please tell me you don't actually have to keep count...you have a Garmin or something, right?

[ktzmoh]

My longest pool swim was nowhere near that. But I put my sports drink at the end of the pool and took a drink every 500m to help me keep track and to give myself something to break up the boredom.

What did you decide to fuel on? I'm curious what fueling is like for super long swims

[mrs.jacinthe]

Apr 29, 2016 21:20:27 GMT -5 chw57 said:

Well since my longest ever pool swim was only 4K, I'm not sure

Good luck! Please tell me you don't actually have to keep count...you have a Garmin or something, right?

I'll keep count. It's going to be 500 WU, 14 x 500, 500 WD. Blah.

[mrs.jacinthe]

Apr 29, 2016 21:54:06 GMT -5 ktzmoh said:

My longest pool swim was nowhere near that. But I put my sports drink at the end of the pool and took a drink every 500m to help me keep track and to give myself something to break up the boredom.

What did you decide to fuel on? I'm curious what fueling is like for super long swims

I'm still experimenting. UCan for sure. I've got some squeeze food (banana mango coconut and beet ginger banana from clif and some sort of oat banana flavor). I'm not sure what's going to sound good, or work. So I'm thinking I'll do a banana before, then half of the ucan at 2000, then a squeeze food at 4000, then half the ucan at 6000.