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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Thanks for the responses. I guess I'll just go with 7:00 and hope for the best. My main aim was to seed myself into a heat where the other people swimming are about the same speed as me. As qbrain indicated though others might be guessing. There's always the possibility of encountering sandbaggers too I suppose.
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Thanks for the responses. I guess I'll just go with 7:00 and hope for the best. My main aim was to seed myself into a heat where the other people swimming are about the same speed as me. As qbrain indicated though others might be guessing. There's always the possibility of encountering sandbaggers too I suppose.
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