Having kept swimming daily for almost one year and done some interval sets during the past 2 weeks, my cruise time is about 23-24 seconds per 25 yards. My goal is to refuce my cruise time to 20 seconds per 25 yards. I don't know if I can reach that goal or not.
I feel my techniche is not perfect, but pretty ok. I have poor kick, but kick is the hardest to improve. Maybe I can improve my condition, but how much I can improve? Will swimming condition make so much difference that I can reduce my cruise time from 23 seconds per 25 yards to 20 seconds? Or maybe 20 seconds per 25 yards is totally out of reach for some people whatever they try?
Conditioning doesn’t have a huge impact on 25 yard times, but technique does. If your technique is pretty okay, then make it real good. Work with your coach or if you don’t have one now, get hooked up with a local Masters team.
And yes there are a lot of folks out there who can’t and likely never will swim a 20 second 25 pace. It all depends on lots of factors, including commitment, which it sounds like you have.
Conditioning doesn’t have a huge impact on 25 yard times, but technique does. If your technique is pretty okay, then make it real good. Work with your coach or if you don’t have one now, get hooked up with a local Masters team.
And yes there are a lot of folks out there who can’t and likely never will swim a 20 second 25 pace. It all depends on lots of factors, including commitment, which it sounds like you have.
