Or..."what the hell am I doing wrong??!!"
G'day from down under, folks.
I have been an "OK" swimmer & had some reasonably good swims over the years, but over the past few years, I can never seem to feel as good on race day as I do in the pool. My latest open water race was last weekend -
1200m, and my goal was top 35 in my age group (650+ competitors!!); I missed out and I reckon I was 30-45 seconds slower than my training suggested (vs people that raced). If I swam to potential, I would have got there.
When the gun went, I felt sluggish, and never really recovered. This seems to be the case for a lot of my races.
Short back story:
I swim about 5-6k per week most of the year, but from Oct onwards I build up so that Dec is approx 55-60kms. This main race is early Jan, so I normally pull back to about 5k pretty easy over 3 sessions in the final week.
I try to get in at least one race prior to my target race, but couldn't this year.
I normally do a 10 to 15 minute warm up about 30 minutes before the race.
Any thoughts/theories would be welcome.
Thanks!
G'day from down under, folks.
I have been an "OK" swimmer & had some reasonably good swims over the years, but over the past few years, I can never seem to feel as good on race day as I do in the pool. My latest open water race was last weekend -
1200m, and my goal was top 35 in my age group (650+ competitors!!); I missed out and I reckon I was 30-45 seconds slower than my training suggested (vs people that raced). If I swam to potential, I would have got there.
When the gun went, I felt sluggish, and never really recovered. This seems to be the case for a lot of my races.
Short back story:
I swim about 5-6k per week most of the year, but from Oct onwards I build up so that Dec is approx 55-60kms. This main race is early Jan, so I normally pull back to about 5k pretty easy over 3 sessions in the final week.
I try to get in at least one race prior to my target race, but couldn't this year.
I normally do a 10 to 15 minute warm up about 30 minutes before the race.
Any thoughts/theories would be welcome.
Thanks!