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.
When I first read this I thought you were talking about his taking 5 seconds off his 1000 free time; now I realize you are speaking about rtodd's 100 repeat times. But even with that, I think because he is already swimming a 1:03 100 free, he is very capable of doing a 1:35 interval or less. Even if he were to repeat hundreds by swimming them in 1:20; that gives him 15 seconds rest. Not sure if he can hold 10 of them, but I'll bet you he could 6. There is no doubt that by swimming repeat 100s on a challenging interval, rtodd will be pulling down a 16 minute 1000 in 6 months, or better.
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.
When I first read this I thought you were talking about his taking 5 seconds off his 1000 free time; now I realize you are speaking about rtodd's 100 repeat times. But even with that, I think because he is already swimming a 1:03 100 free, he is very capable of doing a 1:35 interval or less. Even if he were to repeat hundreds by swimming them in 1:20; that gives him 15 seconds rest. Not sure if he can hold 10 of them, but I'll bet you he could 6. There is no doubt that by swimming repeat 100s on a challenging interval, rtodd will be pulling down a 16 minute 1000 in 6 months, or better.
