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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You are making up a time to enter right? How many people do you think you are going to be swimming with that are doing the exact same thing?
I don't think your seed time is going to really matter too much, the odds are you are going to have at least a couple people in your heat that guessed their seed times, and are going to be fairly incorrect. If you are stuck next to them, your well planned seed time didn't help you at all. On top of that, there will be a huge range of abilities, so you might have someone who is 2 minutes faster than you and another that is two minutes slower than you in the same heat with you.
In conclusion, it doesn't matter. Focus on swimming your own race, and good luck.
I have noticed a lot of people on the forums have friends/enemies that they race all the time. If you find someone who is about your speed, it might make sense that you two keep in touch so you are entering with similar seed times so you know you will have someone to actually race.
You are making up a time to enter right? How many people do you think you are going to be swimming with that are doing the exact same thing?
I don't think your seed time is going to really matter too much, the odds are you are going to have at least a couple people in your heat that guessed their seed times, and are going to be fairly incorrect. If you are stuck next to them, your well planned seed time didn't help you at all. On top of that, there will be a huge range of abilities, so you might have someone who is 2 minutes faster than you and another that is two minutes slower than you in the same heat with you.
In conclusion, it doesn't matter. Focus on swimming your own race, and good luck.
I have noticed a lot of people on the forums have friends/enemies that they race all the time. If you find someone who is about your speed, it might make sense that you two keep in touch so you are entering with similar seed times so you know you will have someone to actually race.
