this Saturday and achieve fame, fortune, the accolades of my peers . . . and my true goal, an NQT. I need a 2:03.
50 PR is 24.79
100 PR is 55.46, split 26.55 28.91
200 PR is 2:04.24, split 30.31 31.50 31.44 30.99
I took that out too slow, but I've been gun-shy after this debacle:
2:06.86, split 29.06 30.79 33.15 33.86
I consoled myself by blaming that race on the altitude (we were at 3,000 or so and I swim at sea level), but it still hurts to look at.
I think the best 200 I ever split was SCM a year and a half ago:
2:19.90, split 33.17 35.46 35.49 35.78
I'm thinking that I need to be just under 1:00 for the 100 and bring it home from there? Can I even get to a 2:03 from my 50/100 times?
Thanks for the help.
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To swim a 200 fast you can't really hold back. You really need to take it out within a few seconds of your fastest 100 time and then have the conditioning to be able to hold on.
Does anyone know of any systematic study of how first half speed effects maximum second half speed? And how much this varies between people and level of conditioning and age and total distance? I am thinking that speed relative to the WR definitely drops faster at longer distances as age progresses (which may or may not be largely due to lower level of training and conditioning) so is there an implication that the difference between first half speed and speed in a race of half the distance might differ with age or level of conditioning. I.e. a fifty year old who isn't training like a twenty year old might be better off with a greater difference between their 100m time and the first half of their 200?
In a 1500 you swim most of it at your anaerobic threshold, might there be similar energy system effects in the shorter races that dictate pacing by your level of fitness in each of those energy systems?
To swim a 200 fast you can't really hold back. You really need to take it out within a few seconds of your fastest 100 time and then have the conditioning to be able to hold on.
Does anyone know of any systematic study of how first half speed effects maximum second half speed? And how much this varies between people and level of conditioning and age and total distance? I am thinking that speed relative to the WR definitely drops faster at longer distances as age progresses (which may or may not be largely due to lower level of training and conditioning) so is there an implication that the difference between first half speed and speed in a race of half the distance might differ with age or level of conditioning. I.e. a fifty year old who isn't training like a twenty year old might be better off with a greater difference between their 100m time and the first half of their 200?
In a 1500 you swim most of it at your anaerobic threshold, might there be similar energy system effects in the shorter races that dictate pacing by your level of fitness in each of those energy systems?
