difference between aerobic threshold and all-out 100 times
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In my case it looks like about 23-24 seconds (my aerobic threshold measured in practice is around 1:19-1:20, and my 100 yard free time is somewhere around :56). I'm trying to set up a poll to gather some information.
I have never gone under 1:00 for 100 yards, but I can hold 1:15 pretty comfortably right now in workout.
My favorite pool event is the 200 backstroke, but that is primarily because a pool mile is so boring. I like 5K in open water best.
I am right around a minute for the 100 free and about a 1:22-1:23 anearobic pace (2175 for T30, does that sound right?) I am also a sprinter with no delusions of distance ability and my 100 free is an all-out battle from the start to the last desperate prayerful 10 yards...
I am right around a minute for the 100 free and about a 1:22-1:23 anearobic pace (2175 for T30, does that sound right?)
Yeah, that's right. 30/21.75 = 1.38 = 1:22.8
I was just thinking about what the differences would be for the best distance swimmers, for example someone like Grant Hackett. I remember reading a couple months ago he was hoping to break 50 seconds in a 100 m LC free, but 'only' went a 51. Since he can swim a 1500 in about 14:40 (his WR is a 14:34, but that was back in 2001) that a 58.7 pace per hundred. I'm guessing he could hold maybe three seconds over that per hundred for his anaerobic threshhold, so let's say 1:02. That gives him a differential of 11 seconds. Based on this, I'd say anyone under 10 seconds is a pretty severe distance oreinted swimmer.
I'm stubbornly clinging to delusions of distance swimming ability (my time difference at age 14 was 12 seconds, at least based on my 100 and 1650 times.)
I never gave it a thought. When swimming the marathon races you judged your swim times by who you raced and how fast they were swimming. The secret is not how fast you swim hundreds but can you win the race.
Your pace changed many times during a race. Water temperature, wave action and tides control everything. Some times you go as fast as you can in order to bury another swimmer. Some times you draft of that swimmer to save your own strength.
I think you meant anaerobic threshold. Did you derive yours from a T-30 swim or something comparable?
My 100 time now is about :56 (I am not a sprinter and don't swim this distance in meets). My anaerobic threshold is 1:18 on the basis of a T-30.
It was from a 2000 yd. swim which took me 26:48. The jargon gets used interchangeably by a lot of people (aerobic and anaerobic threshold). I have an exercise physiology book that I got used on amazon for $5 or so that I can refer to if I get hopelessly confused.
