I’ve been doing this base training plan for a little while now. It’s been nice having a structured plan to refer to. Today I found myself doing my first time trial in the water. The drill goes like this: Swim 3 x 300 m at the highest average speed possible. The goal is to keep all 3 within 15 seconds of each other. Once you’ve finished, you average them and divide by 3 to come up with a 100 m pace.
I kept all 3 within 10 seconds of each other with an average of just about 5 min / 300 m. or aproximately 1 sec every meter which makes it very easy to translate to any distance. While I think I should have done better, if I kept that pace for my half-ironman (just under 2000 meters), it would put me at 33 minutes which wouldn’t be too bad.
Overall I don’t feel too bad about the results. I can’t wait to compare these to results later in the season.
