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?
Parents
Former Member
And Hofffman, small world your actually being on Roatan for the day via cruise ship. Did you come to West End or did you go to West Bay?
I was part of a large family group. We split up into two groups - I was part of the deep sea fishing group and the rest went to a beach to snorkel and hang out all day.
I believe we were at West End. No matter where we were - it was beautiful.
And Hofffman, small world your actually being on Roatan for the day via cruise ship. Did you come to West End or did you go to West Bay?
I was part of a large family group. We split up into two groups - I was part of the deep sea fishing group and the rest went to a beach to snorkel and hang out all day.
I believe we were at West End. No matter where we were - it was beautiful.
