It's been about three years since I've done a swim meet. I'm planning to swim the IL state meet next month, probably swimming 100, 200, 500 free and 100 ***. I'm not too worried about estimating the shorter races, but I've never swum the 500, so I'm looking for some seed time estimating advice. Today I swam a couple broken 500s (200, 150, 100, 50, with a 10-second rest between segments). I swam one in 7:13 and pulled another in 7:00, both from a push. I figured a broken 500 would be a better estimate of actual race pace. Does a 7:13 seem like a reasonable estimate? Should I be more aggressive? Less?
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Do you generally swim faster than you train? I swam a broken 1000 in practice and never went faster than 13 minutes, but in a meet I swam it in 12:33. I have always swum race events a lot faster than in training so I generally drop a little time off my best practice time.
If nothing else I would use your fastest time you achieved in practice. 10 seconds rest isn't a whole lot and I would think with the excitement of competition you could match that easily. Maybe enter at a 6:59.99?
Good luck at the meet!
Do you generally swim faster than you train? I swam a broken 1000 in practice and never went faster than 13 minutes, but in a meet I swam it in 12:33. I have always swum race events a lot faster than in training so I generally drop a little time off my best practice time.
If nothing else I would use your fastest time you achieved in practice. 10 seconds rest isn't a whole lot and I would think with the excitement of competition you could match that easily. Maybe enter at a 6:59.99?
Good luck at the meet!
