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 did a 10x100 today and struggled. I started at 1:30 and fell off to 1:40 by the tenth on a 2 min interval. Just didn't have it...long week.
Getting back to this T20 thing. I will try the 1:50 interval and see what happens. What should I try to come in at? should I try to hold 1:30 to start? 1:40? 1:45?
I did a 10x100 today and struggled. I started at 1:30 and fell off to 1:40 by the tenth on a 2 min interval. Just didn't have it...long week.
Getting back to this T20 thing. I will try the 1:50 interval and see what happens. What should I try to come in at? should I try to hold 1:30 to start? 1:40? 1:45?
