600m. I still can’t chain the freestyle lengths but it takes 600m for me to get half dead now as opposed to 75. So that’s an improvement.
I’m trying to sort out the technique today. I made the bad mistake of reading teh boards.ie swimming forum which was demoralising to say the least. Apparently 25-30seconds for 25m is like “slow”.
uhoh. I’m doing drills and concentrating on technique and I come in at 36sec. If I scrap all that I come in at 29.5.
I’m now wondering what “fit” actually is. What’s a decent fitness level for a non-elite swimmer, non elite sportswoman and all that jazz? I know I have that 400m in 8 minutes lark to aim for and by the looks of things, that may not be particularly taxing for a lot of swimmers (although right now for me, it’s out of reach). I also know that once I break 400m even in my swim sessions, it gets easier. The last 200m were easier than the first 400m today and I remember that from the last time too, when I was backstroking; the first 400m sucked. The subsequent 1200m that brought me up to 1600m didn’t suck quite so much.
Anyway, the technique bit seems to be improving a bit, and the recovery periods between lengths are dropping off so I suppose that’s good.
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