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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Ha. Not really what I was getting at....
I knew it was a hard question to explain. I was wondering how the lighter training volume impacts the ability to swim faster in meets than practice. I always felt that in the past, a high yardage training schedule negatively impacted the ability to swim faster in meets. For example. At the height of a high volume training season, a fast 100 in practice correlated directly to meet times, once the dive is added in. I'm wondering now with lower volume higher intensity training which way that will play out... Bigger or smaller practice to meet differences.
Ha. Not really what I was getting at....
I knew it was a hard question to explain. I was wondering how the lighter training volume impacts the ability to swim faster in meets than practice. I always felt that in the past, a high yardage training schedule negatively impacted the ability to swim faster in meets. For example. At the height of a high volume training season, a fast 100 in practice correlated directly to meet times, once the dive is added in. I'm wondering now with lower volume higher intensity training which way that will play out... Bigger or smaller practice to meet differences.
