Any advice on training for 1500 SCM. I will be competing for the first time Nov 5, 2005. I want to do the 1500 m. I've been with a masters club since early Jan. 05, I'm 53 yrs. old.
I train 3 to 4 times per week with the masters group, doing about 3600 yrds per workout.
Besides just training on my own doing distance sets is there any specific advice other than just swimming between the walls alot.
My coach suggested training sets of 16x 100's and working at keeping the same pace thru the entire set.
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I hate the 1500 personally (unless I can do it backstroke), but I did an interesting set yesterday that I thought would help aerobic endurance it was as follows:
1 X 100 on 2:00
1 X 200 on 3:00
1 X 300 on 4:00
1 X 400 on 5:00
1 X 500 on 6:00
I had set a goal to hold 1:05 to 1:08 pace all the way through. Was a pretty dificult set (for me), but I did start getting a good sense of pace and aerobic systems were definitely tested.
I hate the 1500 personally (unless I can do it backstroke), but I did an interesting set yesterday that I thought would help aerobic endurance it was as follows:
1 X 100 on 2:00
1 X 200 on 3:00
1 X 300 on 4:00
1 X 400 on 5:00
1 X 500 on 6:00
I had set a goal to hold 1:05 to 1:08 pace all the way through. Was a pretty dificult set (for me), but I did start getting a good sense of pace and aerobic systems were definitely tested.
