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:
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Me three!
Having recently returned to the pool after 15 years away, I am discovering that a) I'm getting old and b) it's going to be harder than I thought to get back into distance shape.
So far I've swum a 1000 and a 500 in meets and they were okay. My pacing was decent (at least I think so - both were stopwatch timed meets) and my times were actually a little faster than I calculated, but nowhere near the times I want to swim. Some of the sets in this thread are giving me some great ideas. (I suspect a few whacks with the reality stick are also needed.)
But I'm also discovering that one of the great things about masters is that I can swim lots of different events, which is something I stopped doing in college (and really from age 13 on with the exception of summer league swimming). How fun!
See you there! :banana:
Me three!
Having recently returned to the pool after 15 years away, I am discovering that a) I'm getting old and b) it's going to be harder than I thought to get back into distance shape.
So far I've swum a 1000 and a 500 in meets and they were okay. My pacing was decent (at least I think so - both were stopwatch timed meets) and my times were actually a little faster than I calculated, but nowhere near the times I want to swim. Some of the sets in this thread are giving me some great ideas. (I suspect a few whacks with the reality stick are also needed.)
But I'm also discovering that one of the great things about masters is that I can swim lots of different events, which is something I stopped doing in college (and really from age 13 on with the exception of summer league swimming). How fun!
