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.
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The ratio I mentioned is work to rest, so I'm guessing you really meant 1:4 for 200s. If your 200 pace is :30 seconds 1:4 would mean 200s on the 2:30. 2:00 would be 1:3. Even 1:3 seems like way to much rest to call anything a "pace set." Pacing to me implies something that can be realistically viewed as a broken swim. If you swim 4x50 on 2:00 that seems more like 4 distinct swims.
Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant interval to actual time. So for my 200, I would be doing a 2:00 interval trying to go sub 28.
And when I talk about pace sets, I am not talking about a broken anything. I have done 8x, 10x and 12x 50s at 200 race pace. The goal is to know what your race pace feels like. It is not an endurance set, it is a sprint set, and you are sitting around with a ton of rest.
Sorry for using your original comment as an example, because it seems like we are not only talking about different types of sets, but those sets also have completely different goals.
The ratio I mentioned is work to rest, so I'm guessing you really meant 1:4 for 200s. If your 200 pace is :30 seconds 1:4 would mean 200s on the 2:30. 2:00 would be 1:3. Even 1:3 seems like way to much rest to call anything a "pace set." Pacing to me implies something that can be realistically viewed as a broken swim. If you swim 4x50 on 2:00 that seems more like 4 distinct swims.
Sorry I wasn't clear. I meant interval to actual time. So for my 200, I would be doing a 2:00 interval trying to go sub 28.
And when I talk about pace sets, I am not talking about a broken anything. I have done 8x, 10x and 12x 50s at 200 race pace. The goal is to know what your race pace feels like. It is not an endurance set, it is a sprint set, and you are sitting around with a ton of rest.
Sorry for using your original comment as an example, because it seems like we are not only talking about different types of sets, but those sets also have completely different goals.
