You're not a sprinter and you're not a pure distance swimmer. Your 50's & 1500's aren't as great as your 200's, 400's, & 500's. Your 100's aren't shabby. Let the D Divas take those 800's, 1000's, 1500's & 1650's. You're caught in the middle. You've got OK speed, but you can do those longer sets that make pure sprinters ill. You're well conditioned and tend to do well with back to back events. You're in great company, Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte are middle distance swimmers who have excellent 100's but not so great 50's. Man you can train.
This is the middle distance lane. Don't get lapped.
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Key to the 500 is to be able to be out fast, but an "easy" fast. That is where all the training comes in. Its a fine line to walk between being out too fast (and dying the last 200) or being left behind to play catch up the whole race. My best 500's I was always just a couple seconds off my best 200 at the 200 split.
Thanks for the advice everyone. Yesterday I swam 2 500s - first one I took out steady and built the whole way through, the second I swam out hard and hung on and came in 2 secs faster. While 2 secs in training isn't much to shout about, it was the 2nd one of the day and it felt like a 400 used to. I think I need to swim out hard but control my stroke length on the first 100-200 to get to that "easy" fast point. I still have tomorrow to try the strategy out:D
Key to the 500 is to be able to be out fast, but an "easy" fast. That is where all the training comes in. Its a fine line to walk between being out too fast (and dying the last 200) or being left behind to play catch up the whole race. My best 500's I was always just a couple seconds off my best 200 at the 200 split.
Thanks for the advice everyone. Yesterday I swam 2 500s - first one I took out steady and built the whole way through, the second I swam out hard and hung on and came in 2 secs faster. While 2 secs in training isn't much to shout about, it was the 2nd one of the day and it felt like a 400 used to. I think I need to swim out hard but control my stroke length on the first 100-200 to get to that "easy" fast point. I still have tomorrow to try the strategy out:D
