Your going to find a lot of very different answers to that one Scott. Dedpends on your ability, technique,whether your doing drills or straight swim, age etc. Im approx 1000mtrs per 20mins on f/c but if I were to incorporate drills or some b/c, fly or breast it would be a bit longer.
I'd echo hound dog's answer exactly. If I was swimming continuously then I'd expect to manage 3km. If it was a typical workout then I'd probably swim about 1800-2000m - roughly 800m in one block and then the rest broken down into drills, warm up and warm down with short breaks in between.
If I was doing a straight hour I would stick to Pulling and normaly bang out 4k in around 1hr10-15. But as the other chaps mentioned, we are all different shapes and sizes so lots of different answers, interesting as well.
When I swim on my own I would usually do about 50 lengths of a 25m pool (1250) but I recently started swimming at a local tri club session and Id easily hit 80+ lengths of a 30m pool without realising. Moral of the story - swim with a club!
Because I'm training for Sprints at the moment, I don't swim for an hour. I normally run to the pool, swim 40 - 60 lengths of a 20m pool and run home again. So cover 800m to 1200m and just over 5km running. The swim bit takes about 18 to 26 minutes, so if I could actually swim for an hour, I'd guess at about 2.5km. The run varies on whether I'm doing fartleks, race pace or being lazy and just jogging.
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