coachsci.sdsu.edu/.../ultra40a.pdf
There is a method, which is referred to as the Rushall method which Michael Andrew uses.
Was wondering if you had any critique about this. If this sort of training is a good idea and what are the problems.
Would this also be good for longer events? Like the 400 IM?
Thanks!
Curious about the successes and/or disappointments of those who used USRPT this season and competed in the SCY Masters Nationals.
There are many ways to compare results. I'll compare this year's Nationals results with last year's Nationals results where I swam the same events. Also I'll compare my times this year with the last time I swam the same event at Nationals.
I have been training exclusively for the 400/500 and continue to do so. The race pace sets I do, 5 days a week, are all based on race pace for the 400/500.
First I'll compare this year with last year at Nationals:
2013 (age 63) 50 free - 24.49 100 free - 55.00 200 - 2:05.97
2014 (age 64) 50 free - 24.59 100 free - 55.44 200 - 2:02.26
The 50 free time of 24.49 in '13 was a lead-off relay split. The regular 50 free at Nationals was 24.67. This year's regular 50 free was 24.59. So I'd call that essentially the same.
The 100 free at Nationals this year was 55.44 vs. 55.00 last year. However I swam a 54.99 this year in February.
The big difference was in the 200 free. Last year I placed 4th in 2:05.97. This year with a much bigger field, I placed third with a much faster 2:02.26. In 2012 and 2011 my best time in the 200 free was 2:05 and 2:06. In 2010 with the rubber suit, I went 2:02.22 at Nationals. So clearly I was much faster this year.
The 500 is a little harder to compare. This year I swam it in 5:35.17 and split it well. I did not swim it last year at Nationals, but I did swim it in a meet in mid-March of last year and went 5:56.86. The last time I swam it at Nationals was in 2011 when I went 5:44.40. When I swam it in 2010 with the rubber suit at Nationals I went 5:32.61 at age 60.
I swam the 1000 only once this year and it was at Nationals and the time was 11:50.87. The last time I swam it was four years ago in 2010 at Nationals, again, in the rubber suit, and I went 11:41.19.
For me there is no question that for what I am training for USRPT has made a big difference.
Curious about the successes and/or disappointments of those who used USRPT this season and competed in the SCY Masters Nationals.
There are many ways to compare results. I'll compare this year's Nationals results with last year's Nationals results where I swam the same events. Also I'll compare my times this year with the last time I swam the same event at Nationals.
I have been training exclusively for the 400/500 and continue to do so. The race pace sets I do, 5 days a week, are all based on race pace for the 400/500.
First I'll compare this year with last year at Nationals:
2013 (age 63) 50 free - 24.49 100 free - 55.00 200 - 2:05.97
2014 (age 64) 50 free - 24.59 100 free - 55.44 200 - 2:02.26
The 50 free time of 24.49 in '13 was a lead-off relay split. The regular 50 free at Nationals was 24.67. This year's regular 50 free was 24.59. So I'd call that essentially the same.
The 100 free at Nationals this year was 55.44 vs. 55.00 last year. However I swam a 54.99 this year in February.
The big difference was in the 200 free. Last year I placed 4th in 2:05.97. This year with a much bigger field, I placed third with a much faster 2:02.26. In 2012 and 2011 my best time in the 200 free was 2:05 and 2:06. In 2010 with the rubber suit, I went 2:02.22 at Nationals. So clearly I was much faster this year.
The 500 is a little harder to compare. This year I swam it in 5:35.17 and split it well. I did not swim it last year at Nationals, but I did swim it in a meet in mid-March of last year and went 5:56.86. The last time I swam it at Nationals was in 2011 when I went 5:44.40. When I swam it in 2010 with the rubber suit at Nationals I went 5:32.61 at age 60.
I swam the 1000 only once this year and it was at Nationals and the time was 11:50.87. The last time I swam it was four years ago in 2010 at Nationals, again, in the rubber suit, and I went 11:41.19.
For me there is no question that for what I am training for USRPT has made a big difference.
