Tom_hampton wrote:
I guess what you are learning makes sense compared to the shorter events, where the work-interval is a larger percentage of the race distance....eg 25% ish...and the total offering is (3-5x) many times the overall race distance. But, scaling that up to 1650 is unwieldy. I'd noted the same differences in the manual, but there isn't any explanation for "why". I'd actually done a bunch of google searching to try to find more data on the 1650 application.
Thanks.
A distance swimmer going by the book would be doing multiple (2-3) USRPT sets in a workout, and 9 workouts week, so maybe in that context the shorter prescribed repeat distances work. But for someone like me who has limited time and far less total exposure to race-paced work in a week, it doesn't seem to. It's a bit of a fool's errand, really, to try to hack my way to quality swims in the 1650 and the 200 fly on five to six 2000-3500 yard workouts a week, but that's what I'm trying to do.
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