I've been lifting weights + running for a few years and have been swimming on and off for a couple of years. Last season I ramped up my swimming slightly to maybe 2000 meters 3 times per week. I'm gonna try a swimrun in about a month and have tried to increase my swimming to 4 times per week during the summer. I can do a 5k run in 20 mins if I max it so I think the running is fine but I don't know about my swimming.
Best 100 meters time 1:20 (was few months ago, maybe I could increase it to 1:15 by now)
I get really tired by it but I can do 3 intervalls of 100 meters at 1:30. With 1:30 rest.
Longest crawl 1k (was really hard) 19 minutes
I have tried to make a 400 meter swim in 7 minutes twice in the last week but had bad days both times and got like 7:30.
I hope I am considered an intermediate swimmer at this but I'm not sure?
I can't either at 64 year old. The most yardage that I have done in workouts is 2,000 this year. Usually between 800 to 1600 yards. I like doing all four strokes and not all freestyle. Probably, breaststroke the most since I like kicking breastbone on the board. Unlike Michael Andrew going 15 seconds on each 25 yard is too hard for me as well. I do 25 yards at 30 to 1 minute rest. In fact the workouts sometimes they give I couldn't do in my 40's either when I still did a 1:34 100 yard breaststroke. I have swim one 200 yard fly at 4:50 in workouts.
