I see many people saying that one should swim at or close to race pace in training. My question is how much rest should be allowed for the interval such as doing 100's on the 1:25 and coming in on 1:15 = 10 sec rest. I don't know about everyone else but I have a hard time maintaining race pace without significant rest or for prolonged periods. Thanks in advance.
When speaking of work to rest, remember it's a ratio and should be given in terms of the overall time of work to the time of rest. An example would be a 10x50 free on 2:00 set. For me this presents about a 1:3 work:rest ratio as I would be swimming each 50 in about 30 and resting for about 1:30. Your example above isn't a work:rest ratio that includes ALL the work (i.e the whole 200) but instead describes the ratio based upon a set distances (i.e per 50) pace with regards to the rest between each entire swim.
I don't think I'm following you. For your example of 10x50 on 2:00 you'd be swimming a total of 10x30 seconds or 300 seconds, and resting 9x90 = 810 seconds. That's a work:rest ratio of 300/810 which reduces down to 1:2.7. Am I missing something?
Sorry: I see what you mean. I made a typo and put "200s on the 2:30" when I meant to say "50s on the 2:30." Just a small difference :) I'll go back and edit that post.
When speaking of work to rest, remember it's a ratio and should be given in terms of the overall time of work to the time of rest. An example would be a 10x50 free on 2:00 set. For me this presents about a 1:3 work:rest ratio as I would be swimming each 50 in about 30 and resting for about 1:30. Your example above isn't a work:rest ratio that includes ALL the work (i.e the whole 200) but instead describes the ratio based upon a set distances (i.e per 50) pace with regards to the rest between each entire swim.
I don't think I'm following you. For your example of 10x50 on 2:00 you'd be swimming a total of 10x30 seconds or 300 seconds, and resting 9x90 = 810 seconds. That's a work:rest ratio of 300/810 which reduces down to 1:2.7. Am I missing something?
Sorry: I see what you mean. I made a typo and put "200s on the 2:30" when I meant to say "50s on the 2:30." Just a small difference :) I'll go back and edit that post.
