Looking for feedback on some time trials so far this week. Since I am fairly new at swimming I have been training for and competing at 200yd and below. But now I am trying to do longer swims and experimenting.
Yesterday I did a good warmup and then a 500yd free near maximum intensity. My time was 8:40. Then I did a cooldown 500 after several minutes recovery and swam a 9:30. This was very relaxed and I was only 50 seconds slower. That to me does not make sense as I would expect the cooldown to be considerably slower. Then today I did a 1000 and I went out very relaxed and swam an 18:10.
My question is shouldn't my high intensity be more like 20-25% faster than low intensity? I would expect to at least be under 8:00 for high intensity....no?
Is techinque rewarded that much over power in distance events?
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I am in the same predicament. I did a workout early last week: long warm-up and workout then a timed 500m (8:50) a 4 minute rest and a timed 500m (8:36), then a warm in the combined time of the 500s and swam 950 in in 17:26!
I have found in my sprints that my poor form creates more problems than strength--according to my coach technique not strength or endurance is my problem. Longer swims I can remind myself to use "good" form and stay within my swim ability so I an more efficient and relaxed.
To me this all makes sense. I need to know how it fix it so my fast efforts don't fall apart which should make my times longed swims even better (relatively).
I am in the same predicament. I did a workout early last week: long warm-up and workout then a timed 500m (8:50) a 4 minute rest and a timed 500m (8:36), then a warm in the combined time of the 500s and swam 950 in in 17:26!
I have found in my sprints that my poor form creates more problems than strength--according to my coach technique not strength or endurance is my problem. Longer swims I can remind myself to use "good" form and stay within my swim ability so I an more efficient and relaxed.
To me this all makes sense. I need to know how it fix it so my fast efforts don't fall apart which should make my times longed swims even better (relatively).
