monty wrote:
Well just going off this first crack at this set you did, you were about 5;15 for the last 5, and that is just the interval times added up. Assume you made all the 1;05's by maybe 3 seconds or so??
So I would say that is a great goal for you in March, it is out there far enough that I would give you a 20/80% chance of making/not making it..
Likely you will break your PR though, then you could come swim Masters Nationals with all of us in Mesa AZ at the end of April. That just might be the extra work/rest and competition that swims that speed you will need to crack it...
And definitely keep us updated, for a guy of your old speed trying this in your 30's, it would be remarkable. I know guys that swam 30 seconds faster that would struggle with that goal...
I'll give him better odds than that. if he was a 5:06 in college as a sprinter, that means that he'd be in reality a 4:55 ish guy back then, as I doubt he ever swam the race shaved / tapered. As a point of reference, I was (converted to SCY) a 4:50 guy in college (swam it shaved and tapered just once though), and as a 45 y/o I went 5:10. Pretty sure that if I had been doing masters meets as a 31 year old pup I would have been easily sub-5. I'd put mhoffman around the same.
Swimming Workout of the Day: Favourite Swim Sets: 2020 National Masters Champion - M50-54 - 50m Butterfly