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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All I had to do to determine that the pace I could hold for 15x100 with 15s rest wouldn't work for 1500 continuous was a 4x200 set where I discovered that despite having no problem doing the 100s with 15s rest I could not hold the same pace for 200s in a sustainable manner. 4x400 with 15s rest will really reveal the pace you can do. Just my experience though.
Lindsay, I agree completely with this analogy. For some reason people seem to think that swimming sets of hundreds with 15 seconds rest or less or even more will equate to a 1500 m swim time. For MOST people, this is not a very good thermometer because it is a broken swim, not continuous, and continuous swimming is an entirely different fish to deal with. Like I had said before, swimming repeat 400s will better give a swimmer an idea of what their actual 1500m swim time will be. A 1500m is a long swim and trying to base it on hundred repeats may give the swimmer a false sense of actual swim time. Just my experience speaking here. I guess if a swimmer wants to base it on his/her hundred swim time, then swim 15 of them non-stop and find out.
donna
All I had to do to determine that the pace I could hold for 15x100 with 15s rest wouldn't work for 1500 continuous was a 4x200 set where I discovered that despite having no problem doing the 100s with 15s rest I could not hold the same pace for 200s in a sustainable manner. 4x400 with 15s rest will really reveal the pace you can do. Just my experience though.
Lindsay, I agree completely with this analogy. For some reason people seem to think that swimming sets of hundreds with 15 seconds rest or less or even more will equate to a 1500 m swim time. For MOST people, this is not a very good thermometer because it is a broken swim, not continuous, and continuous swimming is an entirely different fish to deal with. Like I had said before, swimming repeat 400s will better give a swimmer an idea of what their actual 1500m swim time will be. A 1500m is a long swim and trying to base it on hundred repeats may give the swimmer a false sense of actual swim time. Just my experience speaking here. I guess if a swimmer wants to base it on his/her hundred swim time, then swim 15 of them non-stop and find out.
donna
