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
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.
Actually, using a 50 sprint as a baseline is not the best choice. A better baseline would be to do a 30 minute swim. Then divide 30 by the distance in 100s to get your baseline.
I go 23 in 50y but my speed is MUCH better than my endurance. I struggle with 6x100y Free on 1:15.
Most of ours are on the 1:10 or the 1:15, so that would be a bit of a break for me.
Which course? And then I totally do not believe - while I am not saying "Liar! Li-ar!" I think you are sniffing glue or otherwise confused. :thhbbb: I have serious studs on my team that aren't swimming on 1:10. When someone like Chris or EHoch aren't doing these intervals you know they aren't happening.
Didn't you just start swimming? Are you sure these aren't your 50 intervals?
Well it boils down, for me, is that anything that makes me :toohurt: and want to :drown: is a fast set. Which is pretty much anything over 100 or better than a :45 per 50 pace.
Ahhh - these sets are so popular and I just don't like them - just a personal issue. What is the purpose ? How much rest are you supposed to get ? Is 2 seconds enough - and if so, can you just do flipturns ? Why not just swim a 1000 for time ? Why not go 10x100 with 10 seconds rest and go best average.
Having said - we also do a lot of these, but mostly yards.
Long-course, all of our lane 2 (or group 2) people could make that - and a couple of lane 1 people can kick that :weightlifter:
I think Michael is still learning how to read the pace clock :banana:
Most of ours are on the 1:10 or the 1:15, so that would be a bit of a break for me.
In another thread, you just said that you swam a 50 SCM free in 30 seconds in a relay at your first meet - and you said that was 7 seconds faster than you've ever gone in practice. Now you are holding 100 Meters in practice in 1:10 or 1:15 ??? If your best 50 in practice is 37, you aren't holding 100's on 1:15, or even 1:35...
First Meet
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The relay was really fun, though. We came in first place in our heat, but I don't even know the overall results. It was a 4x50 free, and I swam my leg 7 seconds faster than I have done at practice.
I swam my leg of the relay in about 30 seconds.
10-15 x 100 LCM on 1:30 for our fast lane (young studs like myself), 5 on 1:20 on a really good day.
A great blow chow set is 20 x 100 (scy) on 2:00, holding best possible average.
This set LCM would be medium fast for our team. I would say that most of the masters swimmers that I personally know would fall into this range. Many of these people compete at meets on our team, but they're usually not breaking any records. The select few people on our team who are fairly quick might be able to make a 1:15 interval (long course meters).
