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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I am in similar shoes though I don't consider myself a sprinter nowadays. I did a trial time for 500 a couple of months ago and my time was 8:02. I like IM's and freestyle is actually my weak stroke. I'd like to improve my freestyle so some day I can compete 500 or 1650.
Today I was trying these 10x100 repeats as suggested with 1:50 intervals. I started the first one 1:33 and dropped to 1:35 by the second, then holding 1:37-1:38 for the next eight (though I had to change from flip turn to open turn starting the 7th). My question is where should I go here? I'd love to drop my interval to 1:45 or 1:40 but I don't think I can swim that fast to hold the 100's time. How do I improve my 100 and 200 time?
BTW, is there a correlation between the fastest 100 time and the 10x100 repeat interval time?
I am in similar shoes though I don't consider myself a sprinter nowadays. I did a trial time for 500 a couple of months ago and my time was 8:02. I like IM's and freestyle is actually my weak stroke. I'd like to improve my freestyle so some day I can compete 500 or 1650.
Today I was trying these 10x100 repeats as suggested with 1:50 intervals. I started the first one 1:33 and dropped to 1:35 by the second, then holding 1:37-1:38 for the next eight (though I had to change from flip turn to open turn starting the 7th). My question is where should I go here? I'd love to drop my interval to 1:45 or 1:40 but I don't think I can swim that fast to hold the 100's time. How do I improve my 100 and 200 time?
BTW, is there a correlation between the fastest 100 time and the 10x100 repeat interval time?
