yesterday I swam a 1500 to get a sign up time. it's been nearly 6 months since i have swam anything over 400m. I had no idea how I should swim it, or how it would feel during. took off way too fast 1:15, then 2:25 at the 200 and 5:20 at the 400. but then averaged about 1:25-1:26 for the rest and ended upw ith 21:10.
it got me thinking about a 5km run. I don't run, but it seems that almost every spring I decide it's time to start and i do run 3-5 times and I always use a 5km as a test/goal distance.
my goal for the 1500 in 3 weeks is to be under 20:00 so I have 3 weeks to learn how to hold a 1:20 pace, as well as to prepare mentally how it feels to swim that long. but I find it funny that my goal for the 5km has also been to run it under 20:00
anyone else have similar times for the 1500 and 5km? (1650yd vs 3 miles)
I think it's mostly in your stroke technique! With = conditioning my 5K pr when i was a runner was 18:32. I've probably trained physically harder in swimming and the best I've done is 24:04.
Or your running technique!
I loved to run but was just terrible. I have never run a 5K for time except at the end of a sprint tri (have done 10K, half-marathon, full marathon) but at my absolute running peak I was thrilled to go under 2 hours for a half-marathon and would have been stunned to break 24 minutes for 5K. By contrast, my 1500m PR (long course) is just under 20:00.
I think it's mostly in your stroke technique! With = conditioning my 5K pr when i was a runner was 18:32. I've probably trained physically harder in swimming and the best I've done is 24:04.
Or your running technique!
I loved to run but was just terrible. I have never run a 5K for time except at the end of a sprint tri (have done 10K, half-marathon, full marathon) but at my absolute running peak I was thrilled to go under 2 hours for a half-marathon and would have been stunned to break 24 minutes for 5K. By contrast, my 1500m PR (long course) is just under 20:00.
