ErickBar wrote:
Care to share your swim time improvement times? :)
I don't have ST-approved data because I didn't do any controlled testing prior to one-on-one technique instruction with Andy and GH,S. For reference, though, at that point I had 3 sub-1:10 Ironman swims and swam in the 1:50LCM masters lane; I think my best-ever one-hour postal swim was a bit over 1:40 scy pace. I am female, over 50, five feet tall, fingertips well above the knee (informal swimmer measure of wingspan ratio). Not AOS.
That said, in the first year of the AP training plan, we did do some testing, and I dropped 26 seconds (total) for "800y fastest sustainable speed" and about 3s/100 off my 3x300y test sets.
I have done no testing at all in the second year, and I've had a lot more one-on-one work with Andy and his coaches so I feel better, I can tell from photos and video that I look better, and I no longer have random men at the pool offering their advice. One of the "rules" is no watches in the pool, so I can't even report generalities. However, they are reading this, I am sure, so if "test set" shows up on my schedule in the next few weeks, I can report more info.