I'm trying to learn how to accurately keep track of my pace as I'm swimming and learn to be able to set out to do a particular lap time and do that time. For instance doing my 100s on 1:40 or 1:30 or 1:20. Could anyone give me some suggestions on how to keep track of what lap times you're doing as your swimming and learning to keep a certain pace?
David
Repetition, repetition, repetition...When I was a distance guy in my earlier swim life I could just tell what pace I was going within a second or two.
swim at a certain effort, guess what time you're doing,
then look up at the clock and see what your time is
Our coaches would also have us do sets where they turned the clocks off, but told us to go a certain pace and watch-timed us.
Generally, being aware of your stroke count and stroke rate can be helpful when learning a pace, but it should become ingrained after awhile.
Like Lump, as an age grouper & college swimmer, I was a distance guy and could pretty much hit a target pace or know what pace I was going. My raw knowledge of my actual pace in a meet now is nowhere near as refined, but I still have the ability (generally) to get onto a pace and keep hitting it 100 after 100. Repetition works.
Repetition, repetition, repetition...When I was a distance guy in my earlier swim life I could just tell what pace I was going within a second or two.
swim at a certain effort, guess what time you're doing,
then look up at the clock and see what your time is
Our coaches would also have us do sets where they turned the clocks off, but told us to go a certain pace and watch-timed us.
Generally, being aware of your stroke count and stroke rate can be helpful when learning a pace, but it should become ingrained after awhile.
Like Lump, as an age grouper & college swimmer, I was a distance guy and could pretty much hit a target pace or know what pace I was going. My raw knowledge of my actual pace in a meet now is nowhere near as refined, but I still have the ability (generally) to get onto a pace and keep hitting it 100 after 100. Repetition works.
