Can speed practice alone help long distance endurance?
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If I only practice to improve the speed in short distance, will it help increase the endurance needed for long distance? In other words, say I have trained for several months for (only) speed, could I, one day, suddenly find myself swimming long distance without feeling tired?
(Obviously the opposite is not true: simply being able to swim slow long distance doesn't help improve the speed.)
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and what you left out of the equation is some 100/1500 ratio to start with. Interesting here. I'm using some maths formula to establish this ratio (any distance can do).
These formulas allows me to basically compute an individual fatigue decay. Over time, I found out that a good target for triathletes was a decay of 1.06.
Using this "ideal" decay factor:
100m @ 1:30 is worth 26:30 over 1500
100m @ 1:25 is worth 25:00 over 1500
100m @ 1:20 is worth 23:30 "" ""
100m @ 1:15 is worth 22:05 "" ""
100m @ 1:10 is worth 20:38 "" ""
So based on a fixed ratio between 100/1500 included in our "equation", we may predict an improvement of ~1:30 of the 1500 for each 5sec gain over 100 (given that the individual fatigue decay doesn't change of course). This 85-90sec improvement (over 1500) even exceeds the sum of all 5sec cut on the 100 (75sec).
and what you left out of the equation is some 100/1500 ratio to start with. Interesting here. I'm using some maths formula to establish this ratio (any distance can do).
These formulas allows me to basically compute an individual fatigue decay. Over time, I found out that a good target for triathletes was a decay of 1.06.
Using this "ideal" decay factor:
100m @ 1:30 is worth 26:30 over 1500
100m @ 1:25 is worth 25:00 over 1500
100m @ 1:20 is worth 23:30 "" ""
100m @ 1:15 is worth 22:05 "" ""
100m @ 1:10 is worth 20:38 "" ""
So based on a fixed ratio between 100/1500 included in our "equation", we may predict an improvement of ~1:30 of the 1500 for each 5sec gain over 100 (given that the individual fatigue decay doesn't change of course). This 85-90sec improvement (over 1500) even exceeds the sum of all 5sec cut on the 100 (75sec).
