Thinking about doing a broken 200 back in practice tomorrow just to see where I am. In my age-group days, we used to do these and break 10 seconds at the 50. The time we would get (after subtracting the 10 second rest breaks) was surprisingly close to what we would do in a meet.
I'm wondering if I should change the amount of rest between each 50 since I am older now. Will I still get an accurate picture with 10 seconds rest or should I go with 15?
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Seems like we did 4x50y free on 5 seconds rest for our race-pace 200's? I don't think we got 10 seconds unless it was for 50m pools. OMG everything hurt, the kind of hurt that put me sobbing into the gutter not able to pinpoint what hurt worst. Subtracted rest times were good enough to use for meet goal times.
I don't think age matters too much; if you need more rest in practice between 50's, it means you won't be able to hold that aggressive pace in a meet.
Motivation - we didn't do lactate tolerance or race pace sets like this very often. It's too hard mentally as well as physically to "get up" and go like this very often.
Seems like we did 4x50y free on 5 seconds rest for our race-pace 200's? I don't think we got 10 seconds unless it was for 50m pools. OMG everything hurt, the kind of hurt that put me sobbing into the gutter not able to pinpoint what hurt worst. Subtracted rest times were good enough to use for meet goal times.
I don't think age matters too much; if you need more rest in practice between 50's, it means you won't be able to hold that aggressive pace in a meet.
Motivation - we didn't do lactate tolerance or race pace sets like this very often. It's too hard mentally as well as physically to "get up" and go like this very often.
