Today, I want to know what my pace would need to be in order to complete the swimming portion of an ironman event that way I know what pace I need to be at for the swim. Knowing this will help me keep a benchmark on how well I am doing time wise.
The cutoff time for the swim of 2.4 miles is 2 hours and 20 minutes. Which means I would have to swim at a pace slightly over 1 mile per hour. How fast is that in the pool? I swim in a pool that is a 25m pool. A 2.4 mile swim is the equivalent of 3862.425 meters. 3862.425 meters is 77.2485 laps in my gym’s pool (by laps I mean to the end of the pool and back). So, the average time per lap would nead to be about .551775 laps per minute or 33.1065 laps per hour.
I have never actually timed myself in the pool, but I do want to go out and try it without any training just to see how long I could last. I am not anticipating long, but who knows. Tomorrow, I will set the biking pace.