I have a meet coming up the first weekend in May. I want to break 6:00 in the 500; first time since college.
In Oct I went 6:01+. I feel good now, but if you have suggestions on how to finish/taper the work outs until
then I'd really appreciate it.
I'm a 49 year old male, can swim 4x a week for about an hour.
Thanks,
Fisch
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Originally posted by effi
Ion, how are you outworking the .50 per 100 and 1.00 per 100 you describe? It sounds like you are not going at those times in workout or in races. I'm confused about what your dilemma is.
I train in the 1:15 pace per 100 yards lane. The 1:15 pace per 100 yards lane is determined as being able to hold a 1:15 pace per 100 yards when doing a 1,000 yards straight. Swimmers in this lane do in big competitions around :50 in a 100 yards free, and around 1:50 in a 200 yards free, except for me. In smaller competitions like the one on last Sunday, untapered like me, they would go around :55 for 100 and 2:00 for 200.
They have this background from age-group swimming which I didn't do, and maintain some of it with light-hearted workouts.
In workouts, I would begin the sets last in the lane based on my lack of speed at this level, but past mid-workout I would be the only swimmer left in the lane to complete the workout: the others quit. Yesterday I finished the workout with a 6 x 150 yards free leaving every 1:55, alone in the lane. The day before yesterday there was something else, and so on almost every day.
The coach, a 26-year-old ex-NCAA distance swimmer, and others in the workout, recognize that I work harder day after day to train at this level.
Originally posted by effi
Ion, how are you outworking the .50 per 100 and 1.00 per 100 you describe? It sounds like you are not going at those times in workout or in races. I'm confused about what your dilemma is.
I train in the 1:15 pace per 100 yards lane. The 1:15 pace per 100 yards lane is determined as being able to hold a 1:15 pace per 100 yards when doing a 1,000 yards straight. Swimmers in this lane do in big competitions around :50 in a 100 yards free, and around 1:50 in a 200 yards free, except for me. In smaller competitions like the one on last Sunday, untapered like me, they would go around :55 for 100 and 2:00 for 200.
They have this background from age-group swimming which I didn't do, and maintain some of it with light-hearted workouts.
In workouts, I would begin the sets last in the lane based on my lack of speed at this level, but past mid-workout I would be the only swimmer left in the lane to complete the workout: the others quit. Yesterday I finished the workout with a 6 x 150 yards free leaving every 1:55, alone in the lane. The day before yesterday there was something else, and so on almost every day.
The coach, a 26-year-old ex-NCAA distance swimmer, and others in the workout, recognize that I work harder day after day to train at this level.
