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 GZoltners
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You need more speed practice.
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Right now I trust my preparation on the UCSD Msters program and how rarely VO2Max workouts are done here.
Yesterday night there was such a VO2Max workout here. After about 1 hour and 10 minutes of medium intensity, long rest workout, there was this set of 200 yards all out, rest galore, 100 all out, rest galore, 100 all out rest galore and 100 all out.
In the 200, from push of the wall and after this 1 hour 10 minutes of exercize, I went 2:18.xx, same as Sunday's race when I dove from the starting block. 100 free was 1:05, 100 backstroke was 1:16 and another 100 backstroke was 1:14.
In my lane, one swimmer went 2:02 (and last year in a Santa Clara competition he went 49.xx for 100 and 1:49.xx for 200), another swimmer went 2:01, and another swimmer did 2:07.
One lane over to my lane, the faster 1:10 pace lane, had a swimmer do the 200 from push and after this 1 hour and 10 minutes of exercize, in 1:48.xx, and another swimmer did it in 1:55.xx.
Last year, in the 2001LongCourseNationals in Federal Way, Wa., as a lead-off of the 4 x 50 mixed free relay, I went :30.84 for 50 meter freestyle in the 50 meter pool. When I started swimming as an adult in Europe, I remember that I quickly came to do :28.xx for 50 meter freestyle (in a 50 meter pool) when someone would repeatedly time me when the feet leave the block, which would compute to a 29.xx in a competition start. Obviously, "swimming tough" since then, like I swim now for more than a decade, took away a chunk of my sprint abilities.
Originally posted by GZoltners
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You need more speed practice.
...
Right now I trust my preparation on the UCSD Msters program and how rarely VO2Max workouts are done here.
Yesterday night there was such a VO2Max workout here. After about 1 hour and 10 minutes of medium intensity, long rest workout, there was this set of 200 yards all out, rest galore, 100 all out, rest galore, 100 all out rest galore and 100 all out.
In the 200, from push of the wall and after this 1 hour 10 minutes of exercize, I went 2:18.xx, same as Sunday's race when I dove from the starting block. 100 free was 1:05, 100 backstroke was 1:16 and another 100 backstroke was 1:14.
In my lane, one swimmer went 2:02 (and last year in a Santa Clara competition he went 49.xx for 100 and 1:49.xx for 200), another swimmer went 2:01, and another swimmer did 2:07.
One lane over to my lane, the faster 1:10 pace lane, had a swimmer do the 200 from push and after this 1 hour and 10 minutes of exercize, in 1:48.xx, and another swimmer did it in 1:55.xx.
Last year, in the 2001LongCourseNationals in Federal Way, Wa., as a lead-off of the 4 x 50 mixed free relay, I went :30.84 for 50 meter freestyle in the 50 meter pool. When I started swimming as an adult in Europe, I remember that I quickly came to do :28.xx for 50 meter freestyle (in a 50 meter pool) when someone would repeatedly time me when the feet leave the block, which would compute to a 29.xx in a competition start. Obviously, "swimming tough" since then, like I swim now for more than a decade, took away a chunk of my sprint abilities.
