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Joe HallatschekJoe Hallatschek
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Has anyone figured out the relationship between the T-time for the 1000m/yd TT and the swim workouts in this SC plan?

In the Swim Hack posted in wiki, there are references to T-time with respect to intervals after the TT. But on our SC plans, it just references goal time. Am I missing something? 

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  • Coach RichCoach Rich

    Joe,

    Please post a specific workout that you're confused about and I'll translate. Please also tell me what plan, week, and day you're looking at. Thanks.

  • atasicatasic

     @Joe, coach will explain in detail. RR pace is race rehearsal pace for the distance you are swimming.

    RR-2-3 sec pace is 2-3 seconds per 100 faster than RR. 

    I am sure you will shortly get it fully explained.

    I don't swim EN swims, so I am not that confident elaborating further.

  • Joe HallatschekJoe Hallatschek
    Rich - I did a 1000m TT @ 1:40/100m pace last week (14 of 20 week SC adv plan). This week is 15 and today's (Wednesday) swim MS said 5 X 400 (30") @ goal race pace minus 2-3".

    So, I think I should be looking at 1:37 to 1:38/100m for this based on my T-time, right? I just started swimming last week and my goal is like 1:35/100m for my 1500 in 5 weeks.

    Thanks, Joe
  • Christy BealChristy Beal
    @ Joe, This has probably already been answered but, I base my goal pace on what I want to swim in the race, my TT time is usally as fast as I can go and in longer races may be much faster than my goal pace. In a sprint though, they are fairly close, if not the same.

    Had a swim clinic where they filmed me today. Very helpful! I think it really helped to see myself swim. I have a bit to work on now though.

    Last TT was 1000y at 15:51, hope to improve that by the bay swim in June, and then FLY through my SC race.

  • Joe HallatschekJoe Hallatschek
    @Christy - thanks. Right now I'll use my T-time for pacing. My goal time will just leave me smoked right now in a race. I'll keep it as a "end of season" goal and use the T-times and TTs to base my wkos on.

    BTW, good swim time. Since you obviously can swim very well, I'd like to hear how the clinic pays off, i.e., what techniques changes and what results.
  • Michael ByertsMichael Byerts
    I did the Week 13 Friday swim this morning. First time in a short course pool in since February and only 2nd time in 2011. I forgot how many turns you do in short course swimming.
    MS: 3 x 300 (15'), 4 x 200 (10'), 5 x 100 (5')
    I am still recovering from a half-marathon last Sunday. Swim was just blah. Not good, but not cover your eyes awful:
    3:50 for the 300's, 2:35 for the 200's, 1:15 for the 100's.
    There's a lot of work still to be done in the next 7 weeks to race an Olympic distance.
  • Joe HallatschekJoe Hallatschek
    That Monday on week 18 sure took the steam out of my pep! 16 X 100 and the 4 X 50. It's been a while since I've done sets like that. I feel the speed coming back!
  • kevhillkevhill
    All you other SC peeps out there - am interested to know what you are doing for the OS with regards to swimming? I'm in the Nov OS about to start tomorrow - are any of you planning on swimming during the OS? Given 1 or 2 minutes saved is a much bigger deal for SC and also the swim is a bigger % of time of a SC race am interested to hear other thoughts.

    For me I am quite lucky and have a 50m pool literally 10ft from my balcony and is warm all year round here so getting in swims is very easy for me.

    If you are swimming which plan are you using - the OS swim hack or have you loaded up the twenty week SC plan and extracted those swims?
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