Any good resources or rules-of-thumb to predict race/meet times from training? Do you just use time trials, can you use your 100 base-times, descend sets or pace work? I'm curious as to where I am at early in this season and would like to compare/project that to a meet setting. I feel like once-upon-a-time I had a gestalt for judging practice performance that let me understand where my training was at.
Alternatively, does my question even make sense?
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Ok... I think I'm more in the anaerobic/high intensity category. I'm most curious because I'm still in the steep part of the getting in shape curve (6 weeks in). I know in the past if I could go :58/:59 from a push in a SCY 100fr, then I was probably 54.5-55 ish for a meet. I'm not sure if that holds when you are older and swimming less yardage.
So here are my recent experiences. Trying to assess where I'm at for no other purpose than projecting where I might be at a big meet down the road. THat, and morbid curiosity.
LCM-50free, :33 a few times from a push at the end of a descend type set (long intervals)
SCY-100free 1:06 from a push over multiple repeats on a long interval. (This one seems really slow to me, which generated the question).
SCY-500free from a push 6:03, longer interval (7:30, last in the set of descending 500's)
200 free-haven't bothered to try a race-pace yet, but that would be my go-to event.
Ok... I think I'm more in the anaerobic/high intensity category. I'm most curious because I'm still in the steep part of the getting in shape curve (6 weeks in). I know in the past if I could go :58/:59 from a push in a SCY 100fr, then I was probably 54.5-55 ish for a meet. I'm not sure if that holds when you are older and swimming less yardage.
So here are my recent experiences. Trying to assess where I'm at for no other purpose than projecting where I might be at a big meet down the road. THat, and morbid curiosity.
LCM-50free, :33 a few times from a push at the end of a descend type set (long intervals)
SCY-100free 1:06 from a push over multiple repeats on a long interval. (This one seems really slow to me, which generated the question).
SCY-500free from a push 6:03, longer interval (7:30, last in the set of descending 500's)
200 free-haven't bothered to try a race-pace yet, but that would be my go-to event.
