If you compare your best times for the various events of a stroke, where does the biggest drop-off occure? Is this different for a sprinter compared to a swimmer of a distance persuasion?
I noticed that there was little difference between my speed for the 800 free compared with my best 1500. In fact, my two best 800s are splits from my best 1500s.
So I decided to take a closer look:
Freestyle Masters PB, SCM:
50: 26.87 (100 m= 53.74)
100: 58.06 (58.06), drop-off=8.0 %
200: 2:05.61 (1:02.81), drop-off 8.2 %
400: 4:27.56 (1:06.89) drop-off 6.5 %
800: 9:19.13 (1:09.89) drop-off 4.5 %
1500: 17:31.38 (1:10.09) drop-off 0.3 %
How would you analyze this? I would think that my 200 is sub standard (biggest drop-off), and so is my 800 (no faster than 1500). There's a lot of variables, of course; was I shaved and tapered for all these swims, what kind of suit did I wear, was it early or late in the meet etc.
For the shorter swims, the drop-off is more substancial than for the longer swims. Is this due to my slow-twitch dominance or is it general? Could it have something to do with the different energy systems?
Freestyle with all its events was the most interesting subject, but of course I checked the other strokes too. Not all to my surprise there was a discrepancy between butterfly and backstroke drop-offs, from 100 to 200 my speed dropped by 2.6 % (backstroke :)) and 18.0 % (butterfly :afraid:).
If you compare your best times for the various events of a stroke, where does the biggest drop-off occure? Is this different for a sprinter compared to a swimmer of a distance persuasion?
How would you analyze this? I would think that my 200 is sub standard (biggest drop-off), and so is my 800 (no faster than 1500).
For the shorter swims, the drop-off is more substancial than for the longer swims.
Freestyle with all its events was the most interesting subject, but of course I checked the other strokes too. Not all to my surprise there was a discrepancy between butterfly and backstroke drop-offs, from 100 to 200 my speed dropped by 2.6 % (backstroke :)) and 18.0 % (butterfly :afraid:).
Here is the analysis for me:
% speed drop freestyle
A --> B meet practice
25 --> 50 na 3.4
50 --> 100 6.1 9.3
100 --> 200 12.8* 8.6
200 --> 500 na 5.7
500 --> 1650 na 2.8
% speed drop backstroke
A --> B meet practice
25 --> 50 na 1.9
50 --> 100 5.9 5.9
100 --> 200 7.1 6.8
200 --> 500 na na
500 --> 1650 na na
I've included results for meet swims and best practice swims in separate columns.
"na" means I don't have the needed data.
* The 200 meet swim was a poor one. I would expect that 100 --> 200 drop to be about 10% if I had a more error-free swim.
The biggest drop is in the 100-200 range.
Interestingly, my fade isn't as bad in backstroke as in freestyle. I guess that makes sense. The 100 is probably my best free event, wereas the 200 is probably my best backstroke event.
If you compare your best times for the various events of a stroke, where does the biggest drop-off occure? Is this different for a sprinter compared to a swimmer of a distance persuasion?
How would you analyze this? I would think that my 200 is sub standard (biggest drop-off), and so is my 800 (no faster than 1500).
For the shorter swims, the drop-off is more substancial than for the longer swims.
Freestyle with all its events was the most interesting subject, but of course I checked the other strokes too. Not all to my surprise there was a discrepancy between butterfly and backstroke drop-offs, from 100 to 200 my speed dropped by 2.6 % (backstroke :)) and 18.0 % (butterfly :afraid:).
Here is the analysis for me:
% speed drop freestyle
A --> B meet practice
25 --> 50 na 3.4
50 --> 100 6.1 9.3
100 --> 200 12.8* 8.6
200 --> 500 na 5.7
500 --> 1650 na 2.8
% speed drop backstroke
A --> B meet practice
25 --> 50 na 1.9
50 --> 100 5.9 5.9
100 --> 200 7.1 6.8
200 --> 500 na na
500 --> 1650 na na
I've included results for meet swims and best practice swims in separate columns.
"na" means I don't have the needed data.
* The 200 meet swim was a poor one. I would expect that 100 --> 200 drop to be about 10% if I had a more error-free swim.
The biggest drop is in the 100-200 range.
Interestingly, my fade isn't as bad in backstroke as in freestyle. I guess that makes sense. The 100 is probably my best free event, wereas the 200 is probably my best backstroke event.
