Fred D wrote:
Sorry John, posting too quickly. I swim IM typically in 1:05-1:08. Swim 3-4 times per week, twice with a masters group. 230,000 yards this year so far.
So, you're doing somewhere around mid 8000 yards a week, and swimming a 1:45 race pace. Means you probably don't have any major stroke flaws, but there might be some speed to be picked up there.
I would spring for a video analysis by a good coach and get some items to work on, and then if you are going to be doing a 6 month focus, I would build to where you are working on a steady diet of between 3-5000m a day, 5-6 days a week. Lots of intervals and threshold work, with any form work resulting from the video analysis thrown in. (You can also post video here and people will pick it apart. Front, back, side, above and below water).
Look in the fishtwitch threads, or search on tigerchik, halfspeed, jasoninhalifax for some of their workouts.
John
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