male:60
distance: 1.5k-2k
free workout:
10x100 on 2:00 /1:25 ave
10x50 on :50 /:42 ave
10x100 on 1:40/ 1:28 ave
10x50 on :65/ :42 ave
recovery times & swim times say to me endurance is ok, but forgot getting any faster!!
any suggestions/ideas?
I started swimming competitively at age 11, and by my teenage years I was a decent swimmer. Backstroke (100 and 200) is the one constant event from those years till today and I've noticed that even doing twice the yardage a week in my mid to late 30s, I could only equate my 100 back time from when I was 15 (58.0 scy). My 200 back time (which I did get a masters PB this past December at age 41) was about what I went when I was 16 (2:22 scm). Weekly yardage is roughly 40% MORE than I swam as a 16 year old.
I am basically at the point of giving up the 100 alltogether, and just concentrate on 200 back, 200 IM, 400 IM, and maybe the 200 fly and/or free. I seem to enjoy those races now, something I did not as a youngun
I started swimming competitively at age 11, and by my teenage years I was a decent swimmer. Backstroke (100 and 200) is the one constant event from those years till today and I've noticed that even doing twice the yardage a week in my mid to late 30s, I could only equate my 100 back time from when I was 15 (58.0 scy). My 200 back time (which I did get a masters PB this past December at age 41) was about what I went when I was 16 (2:22 scm). Weekly yardage is roughly 40% MORE than I swam as a 16 year old.
I am basically at the point of giving up the 100 alltogether, and just concentrate on 200 back, 200 IM, 400 IM, and maybe the 200 fly and/or free. I seem to enjoy those races now, something I did not as a youngun
