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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This is good advice. A fairly recent post here provides good info on the T30 test and how to use it.
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
I believe Maglischo says in his book that there is really very little difference between a T20 and and a T30. Some even suggest a T10 is enough. I think rtodd's 1000 swim might good enough. He swam a 1000 in 18:10. If it was a best effort that is a 1:49 interval for the 100. That suggests to improve his aerobic threshold he should swim repeat 100s in practice on a 1:50 interval. In six months he might be able to drop that five seconds, etc.
Six months to go from 10 x 100 on 1:50 to 1:45? Really?
This is good advice. A fairly recent post here provides good info on the T30 test and how to use it.
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
I believe Maglischo says in his book that there is really very little difference between a T20 and and a T30. Some even suggest a T10 is enough. I think rtodd's 1000 swim might good enough. He swam a 1000 in 18:10. If it was a best effort that is a 1:49 interval for the 100. That suggests to improve his aerobic threshold he should swim repeat 100s in practice on a 1:50 interval. In six months he might be able to drop that five seconds, etc.
Six months to go from 10 x 100 on 1:50 to 1:45? Really?
