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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For me, I go out at an initial easy pace to smooth out the excessive nerves/adrenaline. And, like somebody said, don't get caught up in the pace of the guy/gal next to you. Then I build to a solid, rather hard pace...trying to even split. I'll be doing a 1650 in a few weeks and I like to break it up in 10 length segments after about the first 500 yds. I push hard those 10 lengths, then lay up slightly for 2 lengths to let the arms stretch out, easing the pain a bit. The last 200yds is all out. For me, it's all about pain management. :) I do about 19:00 for the 1650.
You said it. Pain management. Looking forward to it.
Actually, you said it when you began this thread: "Will breakfast reverse on me?"
To me, racing the 800/1000 and 1500/1650 distances is really more about nausea management than about pain management. Pain management is for 200s and the 400/500. (The 100 back and the 50 back are just pain, no management involved.)
If you breathe every stroke and swim steady for 600 and then try to speed up, you will have a fine time. Good luck!
I would have thought you must really have been hurting, but you were able to speed up for your final 100, so hard to say. Perhaps you just need to work on your pacing more. Twelve seconds between your fastest and slowest 100s is huge. Somewhere around five seconds is probably ideal.
I'll know in just over a week if I can manage that (the five seconds). that would be going out in 1:10 then holding 1:15's since I want to go under 10:00. actually just found out one of the 16yr old girls on our team split 9:52 in her 1500 so I would really like to go under 9:52....
