Just curious,
If a person can swim a 10 x 100 meter free set on the 1:35, would you condier that to be slow, medium, fast? Where would that person be in your workout group? Medium, Medium fast lane?
That's swum with no fins, no pull buoy.
Wiht so many swimmers coming in with so many diverse backgrounds of training, competition, success, it will be interesting to see the interpretations.
Thanks,
Rob
If a person can swim a 10 x 100 meter free set on the 1:35, would you condier that to be slow, medium, fast? Where would that person be in your workout group? Medium, Medium fast lane?
That's swum with no fins, no pull buoy.
Wiht so many swimmers coming in with so many diverse backgrounds of training, competition, success, it will be interesting to see the interpretations.
Assuming LCM, this would be "medium fast" on our team. If it is SCM it would be closer to "medium."
I don't think this is a matter of interpretation, exactly, mostly a matter of the composition of the team. Some teams have an abundance of young/fast studs, for example.
Michael, I have to admit that I've never swum on a masters team (even as a visitor) that has a group that routinely does 1:10 intervals for 100m free repeats, even SCM.
Yeah, I'd say generally a 1:35 interval for SCM is solidly in the 'medium' group. It certainly isn't slow, but definitely wouldn't be fast for a strong team.
I agree with Chris. Based on our team composition which is mostly strong swimming triathletes and fitness swimmers, 1:35 for LCM or SCM would put you in the medium fast lane. The fast lane would do 1:20, perhaps 1:15 on a good day (with a lot of touch and go near the end of the set).
Our team might be slightly slower on average than most masters teams (that have a higher percentage of competitive swimmers with college swimming backgrounds).
Tim
Michael, I have to admit that I've never swum on a masters team (even as a visitor) that has a group that routinely does 1:10 intervals for 100m free repeats, even SCM.
Ditto, never, ever.
Most of ours are on the 1:10 or the 1:15, so that would be a bit of a break for me.
Um, not in LCM or even SCM. Not in Masters. Never heard of it. Yards? Possible. But either course in meters? Nope. Not for a set of 10.
Just curious,
If a person can swim a 10 x 100 meter free set on the 1:35, would you condier that to be slow, medium, fast? Where would that person be in your workout group? Medium, Medium fast lane?
Our fast lane is generally in the 1:30-1:45 range for SCM depending on what type of set, where it is in the workout and what has come before it.
That would be medium-fast or in my words 'are you kidding?'. I'm kinda with Ehoch here. What's the point? Either shorten the # of reps and the interval or lengthen the interval and increase the intensity. But this just seems like unnecessary pain to me.
10 x 100 LCM on 1:35 is my team's fast group (2 lanes). We periodically do this set or something similar, but usually on the 1:30. Our fastest swimmers, however, tend to be 40-50+. We don't have a lot of young studs. (Left to my own devices, as ehoch notes, I'd never do this set. I'm not fond of short rest intervals or continuous swimming.)
162 IQ can't read a pace clock?
It's all relative, right? Also it depends on how much effort you put into each one. You could do 10x100 on 3:00 and it be a really tough set if you all-out sprint all 10 of them...
Is there some kind of methodology (or could someone suggest won) to rate the difficulty of a set based on your race time? My 50y free time is 25 so what would make up a fast, medium, and slow interval.
