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.
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Let me dig up a poll I posted on this a while ago. It was something about the difference between your all-out 100 time, and your 100 pace on a 1650 or 2000. The responses formed a nice gaussian distribution.
Here it is.
difference between aerobic threshold and all-out 100 times - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums
Let me dig up a poll I posted on this a while ago. It was something about the difference between your all-out 100 time, and your 100 pace on a 1650 or 2000. The responses formed a nice gaussian distribution.
Here it is.
difference between aerobic threshold and all-out 100 times - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums
