Hey, I have no problem suffering through a race for a TT. That's exactly why I did the 1650 last weekend...but you won't see me swim it again till next year :afraid:If no one else want to take the honors of a TT spot, I'll gladly take it.
I think having a little fun with distance swims makes them less boring. Like my 1500 backstroke idea, or when I threatened to stop turning the numbers at the 43 length mark of your 1650. And then there's this. I know what happened so I won't spoil it. Can anyone guess what he did? :lmao:
Men 30-34 1000 Yard Freestyle
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Pl Name Age Club Seed Time Final Time Points
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1 Adams, James A 33 HMS 11:13.65 11:43.38
29.22 1:04.16(34.94) 1:37.17(33.01) 2:13.45(36.28)
2:48.28(34.83) 3:25.12(36.84) 4:00.41(35.29) 4:38.43(38.02)
5:14.72(36.29) 5:51.90(37.18) 6:28.40(36.50) 7:06.27(37.87)
7:42.52(36.25) 8:18.65(36.13) 8:55.00(36.35) 9:30.83(35.83)
10:07.05(36.22) 10:42.74(35.69) 11:12.75(30.01) 11:43.38(30.63)
I think having a little fun with distance swims makes them less boring. Like my 1500 backstroke idea, or when I threatened to stop turning the numbers at the 43 length mark of your 1650. And then there's this. I know what happened so I won't spoil it. Can anyone guess what he did? :lmao:
Men 30-34 1000 Yard Freestyle
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Pl Name Age Club Seed Time Final Time Points
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1 Adams, James A 33 HMS 11:13.65 11:43.38
29.22 1:04.16(34.94) 1:37.17(33.01) 2:13.45(36.28)
2:48.28(34.83) 3:25.12(36.84) 4:00.41(35.29) 4:38.43(38.02)
5:14.72(36.29) 5:51.90(37.18) 6:28.40(36.50) 7:06.27(37.87)
7:42.52(36.25) 8:18.65(36.13) 8:55.00(36.35) 9:30.83(35.83)
10:07.05(36.22) 10:42.74(35.69) 11:12.75(30.01) 11:43.38(30.63)
Oooooohhh ...pick me!! pick me!!! I know!!!
:)
I think having a little fun with distance swims makes them less boring. Like my 1500 backstroke idea, or when I threatened to stop turning the numbers at the 43 length mark of your 1650. And then there's this. I know what happened so I won't spoil it. Can anyone guess what he did? :lmao:
Men 30-34 1000 Yard Freestyle
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Pl Name Age Club Seed Time Final Time Points
===========================================================================
1 Adams, James A 33 HMS 11:13.65 11:43.38
29.22 1:04.16(34.94) 1:37.17(33.01) 2:13.45(36.28)
2:48.28(34.83) 3:25.12(36.84) 4:00.41(35.29) 4:38.43(38.02)
5:14.72(36.29) 5:51.90(37.18) 6:28.40(36.50) 7:06.27(37.87)
7:42.52(36.25) 8:18.65(36.13) 8:55.00(36.35) 9:30.83(35.83)
10:07.05(36.22) 10:42.74(35.69) 11:12.75(30.01) 11:43.38(30.63)
It's hard to figure out unless you were there, or look at the splits carefully...
For the first 700 I did:
50 Fly followed by a 50 Free EZ (my fly splits were actually faster than my free ones)
the did a 200 free EZ,
followed by a 100 fast trying to hit 1:00 or under.
That Guy is right that "playing" with a distance event can make it go by easier...in fact during one of my open turns at the counter end I had to correct my counter that he was on the wrong lap. :banana:
Hey, I have no problem suffering through a race for a TT. That's exactly why I did the 1650 last weekend...but you won't see me swim it again till next year :afraid:If no one else want to take the honors of a TT spot, I'll gladly take it.
I'm right there with you. I do the 400IM and get in. 5th this year.
How long did it take for you do adapt to Mark's race pace training, when you started swimming with him? It seems most of your practice, even on distance days are more race pace instead of long slow distance
I don't know about "most." I think it comes down to 10-15% or so (accordingn to my calculations for the past few weeks), though you are right that there is something fast on most days. I believe that is a Salo philosophy too.
Partly that's because not everyone comes to every practice; most do not, in fact. So if you don't have something fast almost every day, then some people might miss that type of set through bad (good?) luck.
Though there are many exceptions, a typical workout might look something like:
1. Warmup set
2. Longer and/or aerobic type of set. This might be above LT but it won't be race-pace speed or intensity. For many people in the practice this might be a low- (or at least medium-) rest set, but it doesn't always work out that way for me.
The first two sets we are usually in 3-4 lanes and are often crowded (5-7 swimmers per lane). After -- or sometime during, maybe -- this 2nd set the age-groupers get out and we can spread out a little for the rest of practice. (That option goes away in the summer.)
3. Kick set. Sometimes this is also a quality set, but often not.
4. Race-pace set
What Mark has been doing lately is giving people a choice on set #4: either a race-pace or sprint set (they aren't quite the same thing) or a distance set. I'll sometimes alternate between the two, and sometimes I'll make this an aerobic set, somewhere below LT.
I do hate long/slow swimming, I'll admit. Boring.
Aw, thanks. Four PB's out of 6 events. Just missed a PB in the 5th event. Darn missed turn. hee-hee
:applaud: :bow: Way to go, Alison! You GO girl!!! :cheerleader:
I'm going to brag on my small little workout group in Richmond, VA: about 35 people or so who practice 3 or more times a week, coached by Mark Kutz. This group produced:
-- 47 TT individual swims by 7 different people: Kate Hibbard, Claire Russo, Betsy Turner, Lisa Bennett, Billy Gaines, Dave Holland, and me
-- 13 top-ranked swim (4 different people)
-- 4 TT relays in which 3 or more swimmers were in our group; 3 of these were top-ranked swims (one was a national/world record)
I think six of us (plus Mark) will be going to Arizona, it will be fun.
Way to go. And you all did so well this weekend, too.
