I am notorious in my own book for producing workout times that are sometimes -not always, but frequently- faster than my competition times, no matter the tapering for competition.
Today was such an example.
One and a half months ago, I switched to a new Masters program, and today without tapering it was asked of us to do a T30 in a 50 meters pool, meaning swimming the maximum distance one can cover during 30 minutes.
I went a faster split at 800 meters than my tapered 800 meters swam in competition in Cleveland two months ago.
Today at the 800 meters mark I split 11:31.
In Cleveland it was 11:45.xx.
My distance covered today was 2,040 meter in 30 minutes, for an average of 1:28.23 per 100 meters.
In Cleveland, my 11:45.xx over the smaller 800 meters, is an average of 1:28.13, barely faster than the one during today's T30.
The fastest swimmer in the workout today, was in my lane, swimming 2,450 meters, for an average of 1:13.06 per 100 meters.
Last December, in the Masters program where I was then, in a 50 meter pool again, I swam 16 x 100 meters leaving every 1:25, so I started hoping to succeed a sub 11:00 in 800 meters in August 2002 in Cleveland.
I guess doing lots of quality swims so that the body remembers at least one of them during competition, leading a peace of mind life allowing for these swims, and tapering well -including carying a feel good sentiment into competition-, they are part of a fragile balance to achieve, and to maintain:
it is 'getting into the zone'.
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Ion, I think could attend more meets. But this season I notice that the SPMA which is north of him only had two meets listed in short course meters since one was cancelled. In the San Diego area I do not know what is available, But traveling a 100 miles or so does take some planning. I was able to change my days off so I could go up to Tempe on Friday for the short course meters meet during October the 26 and 27 and I took vacation days because I normally work on the weekends. Now Paul may be in a profession that allows him more flexiabity to travel than either Ion or myself. The next meet I'm planning on doing is a local meet in Tucson in February. I understand why my state which is even more spread out with its two population metro areas doesn't have as many meets as California or the some of the metro areas back east do which are closer together and have more people to drawed from. As for speed, I'm swimming times closer to when I was 12 or early 13 years old. And I did better in the 100 meter breastroke than last summer and did swim the 200 meter breastroke for the first time but did slower in the 50 meter breastroke this time. And my 50 meter butterfly is slower than when I was 12 years old. So, age and conditioning in my case as well are definenity factors. I was beaten by even a 83 year old but I beat some of the times of beginning or immediate level 20 and 30 something swimmers.
Ion, I think could attend more meets. But this season I notice that the SPMA which is north of him only had two meets listed in short course meters since one was cancelled. In the San Diego area I do not know what is available, But traveling a 100 miles or so does take some planning. I was able to change my days off so I could go up to Tempe on Friday for the short course meters meet during October the 26 and 27 and I took vacation days because I normally work on the weekends. Now Paul may be in a profession that allows him more flexiabity to travel than either Ion or myself. The next meet I'm planning on doing is a local meet in Tucson in February. I understand why my state which is even more spread out with its two population metro areas doesn't have as many meets as California or the some of the metro areas back east do which are closer together and have more people to drawed from. As for speed, I'm swimming times closer to when I was 12 or early 13 years old. And I did better in the 100 meter breastroke than last summer and did swim the 200 meter breastroke for the first time but did slower in the 50 meter breastroke this time. And my 50 meter butterfly is slower than when I was 12 years old. So, age and conditioning in my case as well are definenity factors. I was beaten by even a 83 year old but I beat some of the times of beginning or immediate level 20 and 30 something swimmers.
