I am by no means a fast distance swimmer. I normally train SCY and I am entering the 1500 at a swim meet coming up. Today I swam around 5k and in the middle did the following:
15x100 yards coming in around 1:10. My sendoff was 1:40 (30 seconds recovery).
That felt like a strong but controlled effort. My turns suck.
Anyone want to take a stab at how fast I should shoot for when I swim this 1500?
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SCY to LCM can be like night or day in that you'll be swimming further without the benefit of turns, but like you said, your turns aren't so good. I am a distance swimmer and even though I always have swim time numbers rolling around in my head, I swim the 1500 like 4x400s or 5x300s and train accordingly, not just repeat 100s because for me, I found my hundreds to be slightly too much effort to maintain for the 1500, just enough so it wasn't realistic. But holding a 300 or 400 time for the entire distance seems to work pretty well. Or if your conditioning is great, maybe 8x200s and see how well you hold those times. Starting out, of course, with more recovery, and then not much recovery at all between them.
But if you can hold 1:20s, then you should swim the 1500 around the 20 minute mark or so.
I am editing now because I just realized I was still thinking yard time, not meters!! Sorry about that. I think that around 22-23 plus minutes would be more in the range for that 1500 m swim and that's holding 1:30s.
donna
SCY to LCM can be like night or day in that you'll be swimming further without the benefit of turns, but like you said, your turns aren't so good. I am a distance swimmer and even though I always have swim time numbers rolling around in my head, I swim the 1500 like 4x400s or 5x300s and train accordingly, not just repeat 100s because for me, I found my hundreds to be slightly too much effort to maintain for the 1500, just enough so it wasn't realistic. But holding a 300 or 400 time for the entire distance seems to work pretty well. Or if your conditioning is great, maybe 8x200s and see how well you hold those times. Starting out, of course, with more recovery, and then not much recovery at all between them.
But if you can hold 1:20s, then you should swim the 1500 around the 20 minute mark or so.
I am editing now because I just realized I was still thinking yard time, not meters!! Sorry about that. I think that around 22-23 plus minutes would be more in the range for that 1500 m swim and that's holding 1:30s.
donna
