Ultra Short Training At Race Pace

Ladies and Gentlemen, It's great to see a renewed interest in the USRPT (Ultra-Short Training at Race Pace) model amongst masters' swimmers. I'd like to take a moment to let you guys know that there's a USRPT Training Discussion Panel that was just launched very recently, in collaboration with SwimmingScience.net and Dr. Rushall himself. Here is the link if anybody is interested. Send a note to "cam@swimmingscience.net" if you'd be interested in taking part, with a brief description of who you are and why you'd be interested in discussing and learning about this form of training. It would be wonderful to have the perspective of masters swimmers testing this form of training, whether you're doing it solo (very much possible) or you're lucky enough to have a coach that tries new things! USRPT has been very slow to gain traction on a team basis at the competitive level at essentially every level of the sport in the US, but it's growing particularly amongst teams overseas (Australia, India, Netherlands, Spain). On the topic of splitting: Rushall derives his recommendations from a combination of basic principles of physics and and biology, as well as observations of patterns amongst elite swimmers. If something happens in the performance of many many elites, across multiple age groups and across both genders, most likely it is a behavior worth emulating. In the case of recommending "even splitting", that recommendation is substantiated on both fronts. (That said, it is observed that for various psychological reasons there is a consistent pattern of a "speedy finishing burst" in the last 25 of races across events from the 100 to the 1500.)

Ladies and Gentlemen, It's great to see a renewed interest in the USRPT (Ultra-Short Training at Race Pace) model amongst masters' swimmers. I'd like to take a moment to let you guys know that there's a USRPT Training Discussion Panel that was just launched very recently, in collaboration with SwimmingScience.net and Dr. Rushall himself. Here is the link if anybody is interested. Send a note to "cam@swimmingscience.net" if you'd be interested in taking part, with a brief description of who you are and why you'd be interested in discussing and learning about this form of training. It would be wonderful to have the perspective of masters swimmers testing this form of training, whether you're doing it solo (very much possible) or you're lucky enough to have a coach that tries new things! USRPT has been very slow to gain traction on a team basis at the competitive level at essentially every level of the sport in the US, but it's growing particularly amongst teams overseas (Australia, India, Netherlands, Spain). On the topic of splitting: Rushall derives his recommendations from a combination of basic principles of physics and and biology, as well as observations of patterns amongst elite swimmers. If something happens in the performance of many many elites, across multiple age groups and across both genders, most likely it is a behavior worth emulating. In the case of recommending "even splitting", that recommendation is substantiated on both fronts. (That said, it is observed that for various psychological reasons there is a consistent pattern of a "speedy finishing burst" in the last 25 of races across events from the 100 to the 1500.)