Swim the first 200 way easier than you think you should. you're going to settle into a pace and you'll settle into a faster ave pace if you don't kill yourself on there
I think this is really the best advice. You can have a coach or your counter tell you if you're holding the pace you want, but ultimately your body is going to tell you what pace it can hold. Personally, I've never used any external method to tell me my pace. My experience is it doesn't matter. If you are swimming too slow, you are going to swim slow. You might be able to pick up the pace temporarily, but you'll probably fall back to where you were and all it will accomplish is making you more tired for later in the race. The key is reading your body and knowing what kind of pace you can hold. What feels fairly easy early on might not feel so easy at the 1000 meter mark!
Swim the first 200 way easier than you think you should. you're going to settle into a pace and you'll settle into a faster ave pace if you don't kill yourself on there
I think this is really the best advice. You can have a coach or your counter tell you if you're holding the pace you want, but ultimately your body is going to tell you what pace it can hold. Personally, I've never used any external method to tell me my pace. My experience is it doesn't matter. If you are swimming too slow, you are going to swim slow. You might be able to pick up the pace temporarily, but you'll probably fall back to where you were and all it will accomplish is making you more tired for later in the race. The key is reading your body and knowing what kind of pace you can hold. What feels fairly easy early on might not feel so easy at the 1000 meter mark!
