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:
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:
SCM
01:10.5 01:13.1 2:26.6
01:13.8 01:14.0 2:27.8 4:54.4
01:13.2 01:12.5 2:25.7
01:12.5 01:12.8 2:25.3 4:51.0
01:13.2 01:14.3 2:27.5
01:14.3 01:14.4 2:28.7 4:56.2
01:15.3 01:15.0
01:13.6
You have several areas of discussion:
1) what can be done to be able to survive a decent mile?
2) Being sore after the meet and
3) swimming a 500 in practice that's faster than your 400 in a meet.
my suggestions & comments
1) practice fast hard and often, you said 1 hour a day,
how many times a week?
make the most of it, step it up
talk with your coach about what you want to accomplish
2) increase your training so meets are much easier than practice and you're not likely to get sore, we get sore when we do something new, when we strain, when we do more than we normally do.
3) your fast 500 in practice is encouraging
keep training hard and attempt to swim even faster in your next meets.
you should be better.
4) take a look at your 50 splits, a 1500 is 30 50's, most of them should be right around the same pace, looks like you had some pace issues and maybe went too hard on your 2nd 400 in that race,
consider sustainable paces, negative splitting, even splitting, and building.
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:
SCM
01:10.5 01:13.1 2:26.6
01:13.8 01:14.0 2:27.8 4:54.4
01:13.2 01:12.5 2:25.7
01:12.5 01:12.8 2:25.3 4:51.0
01:13.2 01:14.3 2:27.5
01:14.3 01:14.4 2:28.7 4:56.2
01:15.3 01:15.0
01:13.6
You have several areas of discussion:
1) what can be done to be able to survive a decent mile?
2) Being sore after the meet and
3) swimming a 500 in practice that's faster than your 400 in a meet.
my suggestions & comments
1) practice fast hard and often, you said 1 hour a day,
how many times a week?
make the most of it, step it up
talk with your coach about what you want to accomplish
2) increase your training so meets are much easier than practice and you're not likely to get sore, we get sore when we do something new, when we strain, when we do more than we normally do.
3) your fast 500 in practice is encouraging
keep training hard and attempt to swim even faster in your next meets.
you should be better.
4) take a look at your 50 splits, a 1500 is 30 50's, most of them should be right around the same pace, looks like you had some pace issues and maybe went too hard on your 2nd 400 in that race,
consider sustainable paces, negative splitting, even splitting, and building.
