USAT use to have a 500y free followed immediately by a 1 mile on the track as some sort of test for who got to train on the elite team, didn't they? I remember Radovich (sp?) and Kemper doing this with a sub 10min for both, including transition.

I always thought it would be fun to participate in an event like this.

While not back to back, my 1600m is 4:19 and my 500y free is 4:40. Trying to figure out how to put it together in a race! [340w FTP]. This is the year.... says me every Spring.

USAT use to have a 500y free followed immediately by a 1 mile on the track as some sort of test for who got to train on the elite team, didn't they? I remember Radovich (sp?) and Kemper doing this with a sub 10min for both, including transition.

I always thought it would be fun to participate in an event like this.

While not back to back, my 1600m is 4:19 and my 500y free is 4:40. Trying to figure out how to put it together in a race! [340w FTP]. This is the year.... says me every Spring.

I'm actually pretty surprised with how much speed a lot of the ex-competitive runners seem to have lost from HS to age 40ish. I was on HS xcountry but nowhere fast (like 5:45 1-mile max PR) but I'm definitely faster now at M40-45 then back then. Sure, I'm training more now as a triathlete, but I think I pushed a lot harder on running in HS.[/quote

I've got a 4:39 mile PR(...and was 8th at my school that year...wtf), but we were doing ~45-50 mile weeks then. X-C peaked at 70-80 mile weeks. I'm not sure, time management wise, how I would do that without neglecting the swim or run.

Adult onset swimmer. Did a 500 swim this morning. Died at 9:32. No idea what I would do on the track now, but I can tell you that I can do 9:15 miles for 30 minutes(then I stop) every other day, and I'm not even winded two minutes later.

While not back to back, my 1600m is 4:19 and my 500y free is 4:40. Trying to figure out how to put it together in a race! [340w FTP]. This is the year.... says me every Spring.