100 X 100 + 10,000 Question

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no200fly — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:40:54 GMT

We do it in a fairly large group and each lane decides what the interval will be. We also alternate leading every 10 so that you can draft most of the set. I guess it's the easy way out, but it is still taxing.

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Rob Copeland — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 09:09:45 GMT

Last year we swam our 100 X100’s a: 6 on 1:40 6 on 1:35 6 on 1:30 6 on 1:25 1 on 3:00 And repeat this 4 times. Notes: We adjust the interval time up or down or the distance down (100 X50’s or 75’s) depending on the lane. We generally swim the set without rest between sets, go right from one set of 6 to the next. Some will take 30 seconds rest after the 1:35 and 1:25 set to start on the top.

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mjtyson — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:27:31 GMT

Here it is from July 2010. 50 x 200 on 2:10, SCY. Holy crap. dailynews.openwaterswimming.com/.../training-for-gold-medal.html

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mjtyson — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:10:44 GMT

How many people in the world could do that now? Amazing that he did it over 35 years ago. I read somewhere that Eva Fabian does a set of 50 x 200 on 2:00 or 2:05. I'll try to find where I read that.

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That Guy — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:21:35 GMT

Cambridge Masters has grown a bit of a tradition of 100x100 on New Year's Eve day. We do it as a fundraiser for the Marly Pineda Memorial Scholarship at Smith College. Marly was an assistant coach for our team until she was fatally wounded in a bicycle accident a couple years ago. This year, we had 88 people show up. Across 14 lanes of swimming, we had all intervals from 1:20 to 1:55 swimming. We put it all up on the scoreboard to help us count. -Rick Awesomesauce! :applaud:

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Former Member — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:38:58 GMT

In high school the captain of our team (Bobby Hackett class of '76) did a (100) 100's on a minute. He and Brian Goodell from Mission Viejo were the best distance swimmers in the world at that time. The coach timed him on every single one and he got faster as the set went on. He was holding :53's towards the end and finished with a :52. That's still hard to imagine anyone doing stuff like this. There's a book called "Four Champions and One Gold Medal". This is one of several unbelievable practices which are mentioned in it. How many people in the world could do that now? Amazing that he did it over 35 years ago.

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Former Member — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:49:25 GMT

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Rykno — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:47:56 GMT

i did 10x10x100scm. I started with 1:30 + 30sec efter 10, then had to go up to 1:35. next year I will do the 1:40 or 100 sec and mix in som IM's since doing them all free got boring.

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Rich B. — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:40:34 GMT

Sometimes the 100s are not all straight swims but include kicking, strokes, drills, etc. (with suitable non-freestyle swim intervals).

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funkyfish — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 10:11:45 GMT

The first time I did this was on a 2:00 interval, second time I did a 1:40 interval, third time half was 1:30, half was 1:45. I'm not good at distance, but it's a neat thing to accomplish if you've got the time and desire, I've also bailed on the set a few times. :banana:

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smontanaro — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:23:08 GMT

Different groups will do it differently. I think the prototypical hundred hundreds is 100 x 100 on a 100s interval, or "one hundred hundreds on a hundred". When I did it a couple times with the NASA group at Northwestern they swam on a 1:30 interval. That was generally too fast for me, so I'd mostly do 75s, every now and then doing a few 100s.

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osterber — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:04:05 GMT

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aztimm — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:27:40 GMT

My team did 100 x 100 LCM last week, and I blogged about it here: forums.usms.org/blog.php 2 lanes finished in 2:45, another a few minutes later, and my lane in 3:02. As you can see we held a steady interval for the first 60, then varied it a bit.