I am swimming my first 500 free this weekend.

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Meet's on Friday, I think. I just started swimming on a team in January and I've done nothing longer than 100 at the four meets I've been to so far. I looked at the events board and turned to my coaches and said, "There must have been some kind of mistake..." Recently, in my "I'm new" thread, I said I wanted to up the ante. Apparently, some divine power was listening. What strategies do you all have for me? Please give me something, Masters forum, because I'm CLUELESS! Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope. //Leia I feel like Indiana Jones after he's picked off a bazillion baddies and then finally the real big, tough baddy appears onscreen and Indy just kind of looks up like, "Awww, come on... let's just go have a beer, man..." while slowly putting up his fists for what he knows will be a very painful thrashing.
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  • That's one thing I liked about the broken 500s I swam over the past couple weeks. I split them up as 200, 150, 100, 50 with a fixed rest between (10s, typically). Since each successive segment is shorter I should, in theory, be able to swim it at a bit faster pace. Still, time will tell. I've never done a 500 in competition before.
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  • That's one thing I liked about the broken 500s I swam over the past couple weeks. I split them up as 200, 150, 100, 50 with a fixed rest between (10s, typically). Since each successive segment is shorter I should, in theory, be able to swim it at a bit faster pace. Still, time will tell. I've never done a 500 in competition before.
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