Anybody have advice on how to swim the 1000 free when you are in less than optimum shape?
In past years, I worked out enough to feel I could just swim it by feel--i.e., go as fast as I could without bumping up against the lactic acid tipping point.
I also swam the hour swim and a 1650, so I had some sense of how to pace the 1000.
This year, my weekly workouts have been down by about 30 percent in total yards, and probably a similar amount in intensity. I have, in short, no idea how to make the best of a bad situation and am hoping somebody out there can advise!
thanks in advance...
Took advice of all, and it worked.
Being in pretty wretched shape, I went out slow in the 1000, then progressively dropped by 250s for an 11:32--a little faster than last year in the same pool, same meet.
Tried the same basic strategy in the 500; did a 5:25.+--again, pretty close to last year, though maybe 1.5 seconds slower.
I find the older I get the slower my sprinting ability. I did a 53.97 on the 100 (thank god for those 3 one-hundredths); 25.05 on the 50, though a 24.34 with a relay start the next day. I hadn't broken 2:00 in the 200 for almost a year. This was the last event, and I decided to go for it, tired as I was. Did a 1:57.07, which for me was very satisfying.
Maybe this will inspire me to try to get in better shape. Anyhow, thanks for all your advice. If I hadn't taken it out easy on the distance swims, I am sure I would have exhausted and wrecked myself.
Jim
Took advice of all, and it worked.
Being in pretty wretched shape, I went out slow in the 1000, then progressively dropped by 250s for an 11:32--a little faster than last year in the same pool, same meet.
Tried the same basic strategy in the 500; did a 5:25.+--again, pretty close to last year, though maybe 1.5 seconds slower.
I find the older I get the slower my sprinting ability. I did a 53.97 on the 100 (thank god for those 3 one-hundredths); 25.05 on the 50, though a 24.34 with a relay start the next day. I hadn't broken 2:00 in the 200 for almost a year. This was the last event, and I decided to go for it, tired as I was. Did a 1:57.07, which for me was very satisfying.
Maybe this will inspire me to try to get in better shape. Anyhow, thanks for all your advice. If I hadn't taken it out easy on the distance swims, I am sure I would have exhausted and wrecked myself.
Jim
