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?
:)
Are we talking a long course 1500 here or short course?
I think it's realistic to hold pretty close to a 1:10 short course yards pace. I'd say that's around a 1:20 long course meters. 15 x 1:20 = 20:00. Since you haven't been training long course that could be a factor, though. You might want to add a couple seconds per 100 because of this.
Did 100's again today...
12x100 SCY coming in 1:09/1:10 with a 1:25 sendoff (15 seconds recovery). This was a pretty strong effort but the past 2 weeks have been very high yardage. :groovy:
Does this shed any more light on a 1500m prediction?
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.
