Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Swim

Today was supposed to be video day but that got canceled. I did get 3000m in right after a 28 mile bike and it wasn't so bad. After a long warmup, my mainset was 3x500 on 10:00. The results. 8:59. 9:06, 9:10.
That got me thinking about finding a Pace chart for swimming. I didn't find anything that I liked. Most took your 100m time and just assumed you would continue that pace. Others used running estimators like 6% slower for doubling of distance. Not sure how accurate that is either. So I thought I'd look at my swim results from the last couple years.
2008 Bassman 1:41 min/100m
2009 Mooseman 1:48 min/100m
2009 DC 1:53 min/100m
2009 Timberman 1:43 min/100
2009 Buckman 1:49 min/100m

The swim course is the toughest thing to measure accurately. Also it's the easiest to get stuck in a crowd. These numbers aren't too wide of a range so it's kind of useful.

I've got a bunch of swim lessons starting next week. I feel that I want to set some goals but I'm not sure what is realistic. So I'm going to talk to the coach about it and see if we can put together a plan.
Last year my big swim improvement was to swim efficiently. My heart rate was much lower and my pace was pretty much the same. Now it's time to focus on how to speed it up a bit.
Tuesday is the first lesson. :-)

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