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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Six months to go from 10 x 100 on 1:50 to 1:45? Really?
Well...maybe?
We know rtodd has good speed from his 50 and 100 times. He hasn't trained like this yet. So I figured he might be able to improve fairly quickly initially.
But maybe not. It did take me about a year to drop 5 secs on my 100 repeats. Maybe he stays at 1:50 and the times just get faster per 100 until he can take 5 secs off the interval.
Six months to go from 10 x 100 on 1:50 to 1:45? Really?
Well...maybe?
We know rtodd has good speed from his 50 and 100 times. He hasn't trained like this yet. So I figured he might be able to improve fairly quickly initially.
But maybe not. It did take me about a year to drop 5 secs on my 100 repeats. Maybe he stays at 1:50 and the times just get faster per 100 until he can take 5 secs off the interval.
