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?
I wear a watch, but can never get myself to break stride to look at it.
I am trying to find the time to drop in on an orgainzed team just to get some feedback.
When I started running I used to think that the 100m sprint was all I wanted to do, but I gravitated toward the 200m and then the 400m. I became biased and now feel that the 400 is the gold standard for running. Short enough to be exiting but long enough to reward hard training.
So for swimming, I have a strong interest in the 200 free since it is probably the equivalent to the 400m in running. I think to do the 200 well, you will probably end up very competent in the 100 free and 400 free.
I don't have any speed endurance as evident by my 500 time.
I wear a watch, but can never get myself to break stride to look at it.
I am trying to find the time to drop in on an orgainzed team just to get some feedback.
When I started running I used to think that the 100m sprint was all I wanted to do, but I gravitated toward the 200m and then the 400m. I became biased and now feel that the 400 is the gold standard for running. Short enough to be exiting but long enough to reward hard training.
So for swimming, I have a strong interest in the 200 free since it is probably the equivalent to the 400m in running. I think to do the 200 well, you will probably end up very competent in the 100 free and 400 free.
I don't have any speed endurance as evident by my 500 time.
