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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I estimated a 7:00 500 free (never having swam it in my life) and ended up going a 6:35. I think that if you know that you can hold a certain pace (such as 1:20's or 1:15's per 100), you should be fine with entering that time. Your adrenaline will help you go much faster anyway. It should also keep you out of the heat with the much slower and NT people. GOOD LUCK!
I estimated a 7:00 500 free (never having swam it in my life) and ended up going a 6:35. I think that if you know that you can hold a certain pace (such as 1:20's or 1:15's per 100), you should be fine with entering that time. Your adrenaline will help you go much faster anyway. It should also keep you out of the heat with the much slower and NT people. GOOD LUCK!
