ThailandUltras wrote:
Have a look at the people in your own neighbourhood Michael .The winner of the 3k swim you did this month swam 34:41 which is 1:09 per 100meter pace or 5.2kph without a wetsuit.Go speak to some of the top swimmers in your Open Water community and ask them how they may be able to help.
DWBTT 3.0k FINAL RESULT (filesusr.com)
The course was not accurate and was only 2.7 k - but it did not matter. What's important was that the top swimmers are national triathlon team members. I no longer think that's achievable for me.
As seen from my involvement in the OW / triathlon community, I can only say that there are 3 kinds of people:
- Those who are naturally born swimmers - they are always in the top half of the pack
- Those who suck at swimming and remains in the mid or even bottom of the pack year after year
- The rare ones who get some decent speed to get to about 1/4 or 1/3 of the field after a few years picking up the sport
If the people here always talk about 1:30 / 100 m is easy pace, that means I suck at swimming because I still can't get to this speed after a few years of picking up the sport. Getting to this pace means about 1/4 to 1/3 of the field already.
P.S. I'm now doing race pace training in this season. I've already "successfully" taken out 2 seconds out of my 100 m in 2 weeks' time. For me this is the fastest way for me to make improvement in addition to getting coaching. 3 weeks ago I failed at the 15th 100 targeting 1:50 sending off every 2:10, now I reached the 28th 100 targeting 1:48 sending off every 2:08 for the first failure.