I am planiing to swim this in a few weeks. I will be 50 in a few months and want to at least try for the National qualifying time of 5:50. Just curious from those who can swim this race in this time range. I will need to average 35 seconds for my 50s obviously but worry that it might be too fast for me.
I can probably swim a 1:02-1:05 for my SCY hundred free but I have a feeling that I will need to be able to swim a 55:00 for my 100 free to be able to maintain that 35 per 50 pace.
If you have done this, what is your hundred free time? What is your race strategy?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Rob
I'm 48. I swam a 5:58 a year ago that looked like this:
Splits
Leg Cumulative Subtractive
1 33.47 33.47
2 1:09.66 36.19
3 1:46.29 36.63
4 2:23.34 37.05
5 3:00.48 37.14
6 3:37.34 36.86
7 4:13.94 36.60
8 4:49.96 36.02
9 5:25.86 35.90
10 5:58.64 32.78
I'm not a distance swimmer, and this was the second time I swam the 500. I used it as either a warm-up or cool-down (can't recall which) because my meet focus event was the 200 free, and basically just cruised along. I swam a just under 57 100 at the same meet, and a 25.3 50 to give you an idea of my speed at that time.
You'll need to shave about a second off each of my 50 splits to hit your goal, which shouldn't be too tough. I went out way too easy, as you can tell from the last 50.
If you're a sprinter, I'd look for about a 1:05 (31/34) opening 100 and try and hang on from there. If you're more of a distance guy, maybe open more slowly and try and flat or negative split.
If I were going to train for this event, I'd try some broken swims in practice to get a feel for the sub-1:10 pace, or at least 5 x 100 on 10 - 20 rest trying to hold a steady pace at right on or under the 1:10.
Good luck!
I'm 48. I swam a 5:58 a year ago that looked like this:
Splits
Leg Cumulative Subtractive
1 33.47 33.47
2 1:09.66 36.19
3 1:46.29 36.63
4 2:23.34 37.05
5 3:00.48 37.14
6 3:37.34 36.86
7 4:13.94 36.60
8 4:49.96 36.02
9 5:25.86 35.90
10 5:58.64 32.78
I'm not a distance swimmer, and this was the second time I swam the 500. I used it as either a warm-up or cool-down (can't recall which) because my meet focus event was the 200 free, and basically just cruised along. I swam a just under 57 100 at the same meet, and a 25.3 50 to give you an idea of my speed at that time.
You'll need to shave about a second off each of my 50 splits to hit your goal, which shouldn't be too tough. I went out way too easy, as you can tell from the last 50.
If you're a sprinter, I'd look for about a 1:05 (31/34) opening 100 and try and hang on from there. If you're more of a distance guy, maybe open more slowly and try and flat or negative split.
If I were going to train for this event, I'd try some broken swims in practice to get a feel for the sub-1:10 pace, or at least 5 x 100 on 10 - 20 rest trying to hold a steady pace at right on or under the 1:10.
Good luck!
