I think most masters who work out with a team tend to swim about 3-4 K per work out. But what I want to know is what percentage of that is hard swimming? And by hard I mean race pace effort.
For example, last nights work out was the following.
4X200 warm up. (EZ swimming)
10X100 - odd on 1:35 (EZ) Even on 1:20 (hard)
3 rounds of the following
200 on 3:00 Build (EZ/moderate)
3X100 on 1:40 (25 hard/25 EZ...)
4X50 kick on 1:05
Warm down 200
2750 of this was EZ or moderate swimming. And only 950 was hard swimming. About 26%. For the high intensity/quality yards fans is this about right or is it a little light?
Kevin
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Crud. This was an eye-opener thread for me.
Did over 5000 meters today w/ the masters group. I'd say 0% was at race pace (95 to 100% effort if that's how we're defining it).
Arg.
I really need to work on that. I was feeling really sluggish from my increased weight routine (went from 80 minutes a week to now lifting 180 minutes a week).
Still, not an excuse. I will shoot for 5% tomorrow.
Crud. This was an eye-opener thread for me.
Did over 5000 meters today w/ the masters group. I'd say 0% was at race pace (95 to 100% effort if that's how we're defining it).
Arg.
I really need to work on that. I was feeling really sluggish from my increased weight routine (went from 80 minutes a week to now lifting 180 minutes a week).
Still, not an excuse. I will shoot for 5% tomorrow.
