First thing that strikes me related to your back events, is the relatively slow times over your 50s, which suggests a lack in term of pure speed power.
That would be a masterpiece of understatement:) No doubt my admiration of successful svelte swimmers is related.
This highlights a question I have had for some time. I've noticed that I am more competitive in non-sprint events and usually focus on those. Given my death of "pure speed power" would I get more benefit out of concentrating on building "pure speed power" or from building "speed endurance"? My current strategy is to do a mix of both in training, but sometimes I wonder if I should just concede that I will never have raw speed so I can focus more on speed endurance, which seems to be something more consistent with my physiology.
You are right about the free data btw, it's less reliable because it is collected over a variety of venues over a number or years. (I don't race free much.)
First thing that strikes me related to your back events, is the relatively slow times over your 50s, which suggests a lack in term of pure speed power.
That would be a masterpiece of understatement:) No doubt my admiration of successful svelte swimmers is related.
This highlights a question I have had for some time. I've noticed that I am more competitive in non-sprint events and usually focus on those. Given my death of "pure speed power" would I get more benefit out of concentrating on building "pure speed power" or from building "speed endurance"? My current strategy is to do a mix of both in training, but sometimes I wonder if I should just concede that I will never have raw speed so I can focus more on speed endurance, which seems to be something more consistent with my physiology.
You are right about the free data btw, it's less reliable because it is collected over a variety of venues over a number or years. (I don't race free much.)
