Since I am relatively new at swimming, I'm wondering how to figure out if I am biased one way or another towards sprinting or middle distance. When I was real new at swimming I was clearly biased towards sprinting because I'm finding out now it takes a long time to develop the longer distances. Now I am wondering if the 500 is more of a race for me.
I came up with the percentage of 100 free speed I swim with for the 500.
I took 100free/500free = x/100 and my "x" is 78% for a 58sec free and a 6:11 500free.
In other words I can hold 78% of my all out 100 speed for 500 yards.
What is everyone else's number? Should a middle distance swimmer be able to hold 85% of their 100 speed, even 90%, and a drop dead sprinter have a lower number like 75-80%? This might me a fun number to play with.
Mine is 77.3%. I am relatively new to swimming, so I expect my 500 time to drop quickly, relative to my 100 time! Right now, my best 100 is 1:08 and my best 500 was a 1:28 average! I'm hoping to drop that to a 1:20 average in my next meet, which would raise my ratio to 85%. That 8 second per 100 drop is pretty big when I put it down on paper. It doesn't seem that big in my mind.
Mine is 77.3%. I am relatively new to swimming, so I expect my 500 time to drop quickly, relative to my 100 time! Right now, my best 100 is 1:08 and my best 500 was a 1:28 average! I'm hoping to drop that to a 1:20 average in my next meet, which would raise my ratio to 85%. That 8 second per 100 drop is pretty big when I put it down on paper. It doesn't seem that big in my mind.
