The Distance Lane

Did I get out too fast? Any suggestions for improvement or better splitting? Much obliged. Agree with jaadams1: You did not get out too fast, but you may have swum the middle too slow. Ideal splitting for a 1500/1650 has the first 50 a little faster (maybe 1-3s) than the rest, due chiefly to the dive, and then every single 50 after that the same until the last 150-200. Then you build to what feels like all out on the last 50 even though it is really only maybe 1-2s faster than the ones in the middle. Beginning somewhere around the 500-800 mark you should feel as if you would vomit if you went any harder. It's unpleasant in a completely different way from the burning legs and numb feet of a 100/200, or from the dull pain that sets in about 7K into a 10K. You need some practice racing the 1500/1650 to know just where that line is but I think many inexperienced distance swimmers don't come close enough to it to have their best possible races.

Did I get out too fast? Any suggestions for improvement or better splitting? Much obliged. Agree with jaadams1: You did not get out too fast, but you may have swum the middle too slow. Ideal splitting for a 1500/1650 has the first 50 a little faster (maybe 1-3s) than the rest, due chiefly to the dive, and then every single 50 after that the same until the last 150-200. Then you build to what feels like all out on the last 50 even though it is really only maybe 1-2s faster than the ones in the middle. Beginning somewhere around the 500-800 mark you should feel as if you would vomit if you went any harder. It's unpleasant in a completely different way from the burning legs and numb feet of a 100/200, or from the dull pain that sets in about 7K into a 10K. You need some practice racing the 1500/1650 to know just where that line is but I think many inexperienced distance swimmers don't come close enough to it to have their best possible races.