I'm back in the water training for the first time since college -- 20+ years ago. It took a little while but I'm up to 3k/work-out, but predictably a lot slower than when I was a kid. I'm trying to get some sense of what intervals to set/keep during sets. Right now it's pretty much a survival thing: 50's on a minute, 100's on 1:45 and 200's on 3:30. That's as fast as I can go and still do 5-10 to a set. What kind of intervals are we "more mature" swimmers doing?
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I'm' also 46 but can't do 3,500 in an hour. I did 3,650 in about 1:25 mintues. It depends upon your speed and if you just want to do just freestyle or other strokes. I'm a woman which means that my speed is usually slower. I consider myself middle aged and yes compared to the age groups over 55, I'm younger but compared to those under 40 years old, I'm older. So, a middle age person should want something in between the other age groups and a lot of sprinting sometimes hurts someone middle aged. So some moderation swimming with the speed works helps.
I'm' also 46 but can't do 3,500 in an hour. I did 3,650 in about 1:25 mintues. It depends upon your speed and if you just want to do just freestyle or other strokes. I'm a woman which means that my speed is usually slower. I consider myself middle aged and yes compared to the age groups over 55, I'm younger but compared to those under 40 years old, I'm older. So, a middle age person should want something in between the other age groups and a lot of sprinting sometimes hurts someone middle aged. So some moderation swimming with the speed works helps.
