įree tip: try to negative split the 9-mile swims. The last time I was able to complete DEFCON 5 was in 2015 when I swam across the Catalina Channel at age 62 11 hours 18 minutes, flew across the U.S., and four days later, swam my fastest Manhattan Island Marathon Swim of the ten circumnavigation swims I have done in 7 hours 31 minutes. On the other hand, if you get through the 12 weeks of DEFCON 5, you are ready. “ If you come along too fast, you will fall apart at six weeks into DEFCON 5. Third month of training: 4 weeks of 30,000 yards a week including a 6-mile swim with no days off, but the emphasis shifts to the weekly yardage.įourth month of training: 4 weeks of 40,000 yards a week including a 7-mile swim with no days off with the emphasis continuing on the yardage.įifth month of training: 12 weeks of 50,000 yards a week with eight 8-mile swims, nine 9-mile swims, one 5-hour swim, one 6-hour swim, and one 7-hour swim. Second month of training: 4 weeks of 20,000 yards a week including a 5-mile swim with no days off and the emphasis still on the 5-mile swim. If you train with a masters group stop training with them prior to starting DEFCON 1. “ If you start off making some wrong decisions, they will only multiply later on in your training. This, in the long run, is the most important part of the training. This is the time you make financial and work/family commitments to do the swim. “ The training is very easy with an emphasis on the 4-mile swim. It seems that everything I do at my age is the toughest thing I’ve done.”įirst month of training: 4 weeks of 10,000 yards a week including a 4-mile swim with no days off. Tahoe is going to be very difficult for me – just like Hawaii was. I may be biting off more than I can chew, but I am happy to be back in the water. I couldn’t lift anymore and running or riding was out of the question. I had been symptomatic for years, but the diagnosis was something different. My diagnosis of congestive heart failure on July 21st 2011 took everything away from me. He recalls, “ One of my doctors told me that there was nothing but a thin red line that separated me from death. If successful across Lake Tahoe, the 69-year-old to be would break the oldest successful crossing of the-then 66-year-old Pat Gallant-Charette. I’m starting off in DEFCON 1 so we will see if my DEFCON training regimen works for me as well in 2022 as it did in 2015 when we swam across the Catalina Channel and around Manhattan Island a few days apart.” That is my theme for this year: ‘0 to Tahoe in 5′ or ’02Tn5’. It’s going to be tough, but as Mark Spratt put it, ‘I going to have to take my training awfully seriously to go for 0 to Tahoe in 5 months. But I’m attempting a 34.2 km crossing of Lake Tahoe – the long way – with Reptile Tom (Linthicum) on August 25. My hip operation on December 15th was more of a problem than I thought it would be.
He explains, “ I just started back swimming after seven months off with the exception of the ʻAu I Nā Mokupuni ʻEkolu Swim Challenge we did in last August.
Defcon system plus#
Although 5 months is the goal in DEFCON 5, I would say you made it if you complete 12 weeks at 50,000 yards plus the 8-mile swims.“īut Tout hit a major bump in his aquatic journey. I you have a few marathon swims under your belt, you can get by with a couple of months of 35,000 to 40,000 yards a week. I think this training regimen is good for someone how has not swum a marathon swim in awhile or who has never swum a marathon. He explains, “ My DEFCON training regimen is a minimum of 12 weeks long with the goal being 5 months. World-record holder and 68-year-old author Jamie Tout of Austin, Texas uses a similar system to prepare for his events.* His hardcore-to-the-bone DEFCON training approach is defined below: The DEFCON system prescribes five graduated levels of readiness for the U.S. DEFCON is an acronym for defense readiness condition or a start of alert used by the United States Armed Forces.
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