Swimming Challenge

nice one, consistent times with a strong finish! i guess based on those lap times slow, medium, fast would be something like 33, 30, 27. Fast meaning a little faster than TT pace but yeah, not necessarily flat out. I like doing that as a build set to get used to swimming faster before starting a hard set.

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Cat, how do you get your splits?

Nice effort there Cat

Couldn't better 6.42 today .. equalled it!

Had a bit of a swimming lull these last few weeks so with  a bit of consistency I think I can get that time down

Muffin, I use an old Timex Ironman 50 lap watch, does excellent for laps/timing in general as long as you aren't pressing buttons under water!

Odd occurrence here , I'm actually looking forwards to swimming tonight! Madness abounds.

Thanks all!

AliBear30 wrote (see)

Odd occurrence here , I'm actually looking forwards to swimming tonight! Madness abounds.

I was like that today, until lunch time.

Iron Muffin wrote (see)

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Cat, how do you get your splits?

I have a Sport Count that straps to my finger. Does up to 100 laps and keeps track of time. It is possible to pause it, but that seems to involve perfect timing, or it will count another lap.

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nice one, consistent times with a strong finish! i guess based on those lap times slow, medium, fast would be something like 33, 30, 27. Fast meaning a little faster than TT pace but yeah, not necessarily flat out. I like doing that as a build set to get used to swimming faster before starting a hard set.

Unfortunately the times are the other way round. Waaay too fast out the blocks, then settled in. on RPE, the fast 50s were flat out (and about 24-25s/lap). I'll try to reign it in next time.

Without having a pacing target for the 50s I was a bit lost pace-wise. For my last decent TT I did some 100s at 2:00 pace so I knew what the ball-park was.

All in all a great little session, 32 minutes without RIs - Sore arms tonight though.

6:30 beckons, Meldy!

I'm going to have a party when that happens

A little unsure how to get there tho. poss 100m intervals?

Probably just swim really fast!

Ohhhhh that simple  

I broke through 6.30 during winter swim last year. I kept improving on 2 swim sessions a week and lots of different intervals.

100m intervals are great and try to work at a speed slightly quicker than  your 100 m split time from your 400m TT. Meldy, if you are at 6.42, this would be c. 1.40 for your 100's. Try and hold sets of 100 in 1.35 with a 20 sec rest interval.

Yes that sounds doable .. and if that is more than doable i'll aim for 1.35 +20 and see
Have had a couple of weeks of only managin one swim a week so I know a consistant couple of weeks will get a few more seconds off
I suppose I do tend to go towards the longer intervals so it will be nice to do lots of shorter ones for a change !

No swimming for me this week

Not many TTs done this week then! Did you see my 6:14 posted this week Will?

And I'll claim the 7:47.

Ta!

Will update the spreadsheet today

I am not going to get a chance to do anything this week, cept the JW at the end of the week
hopefully back to near normal the week after

8:23:13 at the end of the club session tonight. My arms almost fell off!

10:05 for me this morning. Need to focus on my technique and speed over shorter distances methinks if I'm going to get my time down below 10 minutes on a consistent basis.

Not had chance to knock out a 400m swim time recently but another PB at IM Wales on Sunday 1:06:18

Hoping to get down the pool later this week to see if I can smash sub 7.00