Here's the deal.
I can only swim 50 min to one hour a day, which equates to at most 2000 yards for endurance work and 1500 yards for faster interval work with more rest.
I feel guilty when I read about other peoples yardage. Is anyone putting up some fast freestyle times with this little yardage? If so, what are the times? I really want to know.
When I went 50 I took it out to slow. 24.03 25.97. My goal is to get my 100 down to 47.99 with 22.5 25.49.
Yes, definitely took it out too slow, which is actually a good thing because it should make you pretty confident you can swim much faster with better splitting. I think your 47.99 is a very realistic goal.
In response to rtodd: I don't know how to say this without seeming like a bit of an elitist, but here goes. I think there are a lot of fast masters swimmers who only train 50 minutes to an hour per day, but I think most of them are getting in a lot more than 1500-2000 yards in that amount of time. I can get in close to 3,000 with more sprint work, and 4,000 with more endurance focus. Now, I don't know how old you are, so obviously things are different if we're talking about a "fast" 25 year old versus a "fast" 70 year old, but still 2,000 yards in an hour doesn't seem like much. Can you try to increase how much yardage you're getting in per workout?
When I went 50 I took it out to slow. 24.03 25.97. My goal is to get my 100 down to 47.99 with 22.5 25.49.
Yes, definitely took it out too slow, which is actually a good thing because it should make you pretty confident you can swim much faster with better splitting. I think your 47.99 is a very realistic goal.
In response to rtodd: I don't know how to say this without seeming like a bit of an elitist, but here goes. I think there are a lot of fast masters swimmers who only train 50 minutes to an hour per day, but I think most of them are getting in a lot more than 1500-2000 yards in that amount of time. I can get in close to 3,000 with more sprint work, and 4,000 with more endurance focus. Now, I don't know how old you are, so obviously things are different if we're talking about a "fast" 25 year old versus a "fast" 70 year old, but still 2,000 yards in an hour doesn't seem like much. Can you try to increase how much yardage you're getting in per workout?
