How far do you swim every week - AT RACE PACE !

Since most of my races are triathlons, I would say 75-80% of my pool training is above race pace. I also do meets occasionally, and about 25-50% of my pool training is above swim meet race pace (meets have been limited to 50s and 100s thus far). This is mainly due to my use of fins. I like to swim hard with fins and then take them off at the end of a workout to enjoy the resultant foot flexibility for the last set or two. The exception to this rule is breaststroke. I've never hit race pace BR in training, although I have done race intensity. It's a pretty low percentage though, currently none at all. As I get closer to the spring it will probably ramp up to 10-25% race intensity BR, but I need to be careful with that. Too easy to injure the legs with all that kicking. Maybe If I get some of those weird breaststroke fins I can exceed race pace in training. For finless free, my closest 50 to race pace has been around 1.5 seconds off. For a 100 it's way worse, something like 5 seconds. With fins I can go almost 7 seconds faster than race pace on a 50, and 16 seconds faster on a 100. Pretty crazy, I know. BR is another story. My fastest practice 50 was around 4 seconds off race pace, and my fastest 100 was about the same - 3 or 4 seconds. What's up with that? Probably because I rarely kick all out during practice.

Since most of my races are triathlons, I would say 75-80% of my pool training is above race pace. I also do meets occasionally, and about 25-50% of my pool training is above swim meet race pace (meets have been limited to 50s and 100s thus far). This is mainly due to my use of fins. I like to swim hard with fins and then take them off at the end of a workout to enjoy the resultant foot flexibility for the last set or two. The exception to this rule is breaststroke. I've never hit race pace BR in training, although I have done race intensity. It's a pretty low percentage though, currently none at all. As I get closer to the spring it will probably ramp up to 10-25% race intensity BR, but I need to be careful with that. Too easy to injure the legs with all that kicking. Maybe If I get some of those weird breaststroke fins I can exceed race pace in training. For finless free, my closest 50 to race pace has been around 1.5 seconds off. For a 100 it's way worse, something like 5 seconds. With fins I can go almost 7 seconds faster than race pace on a 50, and 16 seconds faster on a 100. Pretty crazy, I know. BR is another story. My fastest practice 50 was around 4 seconds off race pace, and my fastest 100 was about the same - 3 or 4 seconds. What's up with that? Probably because I rarely kick all out during practice.