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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My experience is that I swim slower in practice than I used to, but my meet times are not that far behind my PBs, the times I did at 18-19 years of age. I cannot really explain this. Maybe I'm training smarter now, but then my training times shouldn't be that far behind.
But I wouldn't guess a meet time from swimming the same event in practice. If I want a stipulation on say, a 100 free, I'd swim a 50 in practice. The time will be roughly the same as the second 50 of a 100. A 200 free in practice can give me an estimate of what I can expect in the 800.
Also, like several people have said, it differs from swimmer to swimmer, from season to season, from event to event. Still, you'll probably go faster in the meet than from a push-off in practice. In a 100, perhaps 1.0-2.0 seconds from the dive and the same just because it's a meet.
My experience is that I swim slower in practice than I used to, but my meet times are not that far behind my PBs, the times I did at 18-19 years of age. I cannot really explain this. Maybe I'm training smarter now, but then my training times shouldn't be that far behind.
But I wouldn't guess a meet time from swimming the same event in practice. If I want a stipulation on say, a 100 free, I'd swim a 50 in practice. The time will be roughly the same as the second 50 of a 100. A 200 free in practice can give me an estimate of what I can expect in the 800.
Also, like several people have said, it differs from swimmer to swimmer, from season to season, from event to event. Still, you'll probably go faster in the meet than from a push-off in practice. In a 100, perhaps 1.0-2.0 seconds from the dive and the same just because it's a meet.
