I'm curious what my fellow slow twitchers do to train for the longest pool events. Of particular interest is input from those of you who also swam as a youth. With way less yardage that you used to do, what can be done to be able to survive a decent mile?
In my case, workouts are limited to an hour and there are usually 3+ per lane, so sets can't be dedicated just to my interests. However, the coaches are quite willing to do what they can for me.
I had a really unpleasant weekend where I raced a 1500 on Friday. I faded a bit and the struggle trying to maintain pace really drained me. In fact, I was really stiff and sore the next day (mainly my lats). I had to kill myself in the 800 on Sat. just to match my 800 split from the previous day. I was still stiff on Sunday.
Monday night, I finally felt recovered from that 1500. Coach had us do a 500 right after warmup. Since I was feeling pretty good, I pushed it, hard. My time in that practice 500 converts to a 400 SCM 5 seconds faster than what I did in the meet on Sunday. I don't know if that's encouraging or depressing. :lmao:
If my mile pace is 1:36/100 (I think that's what it was this summer), using your model above should I be doing 1. 15 x 100 on 1:50-2:00 and 2. 15 x 100 on 1:40?
I think for the first set 2:00 would be good. 1:50 would be really difficult. If you can make that you could probably hold a faster pace than 1:36. The second one should also be very challenging. I know I can't hold repeats within five seconds of my pace. You might want to start with 1:45 and move to 1:40 if you're able to make the 1:45 "easily."
If my mile pace is 1:36/100 (I think that's what it was this summer), using your model above should I be doing 1. 15 x 100 on 1:50-2:00 and 2. 15 x 100 on 1:40?
I think for the first set 2:00 would be good. 1:50 would be really difficult. If you can make that you could probably hold a faster pace than 1:36. The second one should also be very challenging. I know I can't hold repeats within five seconds of my pace. You might want to start with 1:45 and move to 1:40 if you're able to make the 1:45 "easily."
