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:
Aren't you about the same age, Knelson? I think we were in the same age group in worlds in Gothenburg 2010.
That was my first year in 40-44. I'm 42 now.
I haven't seen Knut in the pool lately, but his son Tore swims on my team now (I've been swimming with the kids). He's 14 and getting taller and faster by the day, it seems.
Aren't you about the same age, Knelson? I think we were in the same age group in worlds in Gothenburg 2010.
That was my first year in 40-44. I'm 42 now.
I haven't seen Knut in the pool lately, but his son Tore swims on my team now (I've been swimming with the kids). He's 14 and getting taller and faster by the day, it seems.
