Swimming my first 1000 free Sunday. How should this be paced based on the 500? If I average 1:14's for the 500, can I hold this or will breakfeast reverse on me?
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One thing I've played with to try to force myself to follow an even pace is breathing patterns. In the early part of the race, more strokes per breath, and progressively decrease it until I'm breathing every 2 strokes at the end. For example a 400 free LCM I broke into 1/4ths, and my pattern by 100 was 4, 3, 3/2 alternating, and 2. I've found this helps my splits even out. My distance times are nothing to get excited about, but I like it when my splits are all within a second or so (corrected for the start which gives you 1-2 seconds).
Other people have suggested breathing as much as possible, every 2 strokes, the whole race. In that case I guess you just have to have a very well-developed sense of pacing.
One thing I've played with to try to force myself to follow an even pace is breathing patterns. In the early part of the race, more strokes per breath, and progressively decrease it until I'm breathing every 2 strokes at the end. For example a 400 free LCM I broke into 1/4ths, and my pattern by 100 was 4, 3, 3/2 alternating, and 2. I've found this helps my splits even out. My distance times are nothing to get excited about, but I like it when my splits are all within a second or so (corrected for the start which gives you 1-2 seconds).
Other people have suggested breathing as much as possible, every 2 strokes, the whole race. In that case I guess you just have to have a very well-developed sense of pacing.
