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 have one more comment and that is: not everyone is a distance swimmer, nor is everyone a sprinter. You have to figure out which distances best suit you. In my very competitive swimming days, I was ONLY a 50,100,200 backstroke person with an occasional 400 IM. I never swam any freestyle except on a relay. Now, I am a distance freestyle swimmer only and to me, anything over 6 miles is distance. I do enjoy the occasional 1500m swim in a triathlon, but that's almost too short of a distance now. And for me, the 500 and 1000 would be like a sprint. But I do believe that if a swimmer has a relatively quick 50 time, they can work toward endurance/stamina by doing interval sets and then swim some pretty darn fast 200s, 500s, 1000s. Nothing any more rewarding than lowering your times!!
Hofman's reply made some good points about all of this, too.
Cheers,
Donna
I have one more comment and that is: not everyone is a distance swimmer, nor is everyone a sprinter. You have to figure out which distances best suit you. In my very competitive swimming days, I was ONLY a 50,100,200 backstroke person with an occasional 400 IM. I never swam any freestyle except on a relay. Now, I am a distance freestyle swimmer only and to me, anything over 6 miles is distance. I do enjoy the occasional 1500m swim in a triathlon, but that's almost too short of a distance now. And for me, the 500 and 1000 would be like a sprint. But I do believe that if a swimmer has a relatively quick 50 time, they can work toward endurance/stamina by doing interval sets and then swim some pretty darn fast 200s, 500s, 1000s. Nothing any more rewarding than lowering your times!!
Hofman's reply made some good points about all of this, too.
Cheers,
Donna
