Projected Swim Times
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Hope someone out there can help.................having plucked up the courage to enter my first sprint tri......The Warwickshire Tri at Stratford upon Avon on 5th October 2008, I naturally thought the hard bit was going to be the training.
How wrong I was..........the on-line application form has already proved the first hurdle! I am being asked to predict my swim time........presumeable to make sure I don't get in the way of the rest of you who will be going that much faster! But with swimming being my weakest discipline and not having done any timed 400m sessions yet I am struggling to even guess this information[sm=rolleyes.gif].
Can someone give me an idea of what would be expected of a 44 year old club cyclist whose fine on the bike but decidedly dodgy in the water.......so much so I am virtually having to re-learn front crawl for the event.
I'm sure I have probably asked how long is a peice of string..........but can anyone provide me with a ball park figure to get my application form in.
Cheers[8|]
How wrong I was..........the on-line application form has already proved the first hurdle! I am being asked to predict my swim time........presumeable to make sure I don't get in the way of the rest of you who will be going that much faster! But with swimming being my weakest discipline and not having done any timed 400m sessions yet I am struggling to even guess this information[sm=rolleyes.gif].
Can someone give me an idea of what would be expected of a 44 year old club cyclist whose fine on the bike but decidedly dodgy in the water.......so much so I am virtually having to re-learn front crawl for the event.
I'm sure I have probably asked how long is a peice of string..........but can anyone provide me with a ball park figure to get my application form in.
Cheers[8|]
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So I bought a stop watch and timed myself.
600m in just under 20 minutes - hope I'm a bit faster come race day.
I would say it's important to get it right as you will be in group of like-timed swimmers and like you said you don't want to be getting in everyone's way or trying to overtake people (i'm guessing it's a pool based event?)
Good luck, and welcome to the forum!![:D]
I'm also thinking of doing warwickshire, did staffordshire??, might not be right name, supposed to be on same course and it was great, laps are pretty confusing, especially in the pool, were i got a bit lost but it was a 'beautiful day' and the bike and run flew by.
mike
Then enter that time, as the tri may fill up.
Then spend the next few months working on technique, and every so often, maybe once a week or every 2 weeks do a timed 400m.
when it gets to about mid-september do a really serious timed 400m, at what you really think is going to be your race pace, see what time it is. If its the same as the one you entered (which I very much doubt) its ok, you will have hopefully become more efficient as a result of technique work rather than faster, but that will stand you in good stead for the bike/run.
If the time is significantly different then ring or email the race organisers, I reckon you can do this up to about 2 weeks before an event, then they can change your time and put you in the appropriate wave.
so dont worry too much now! the time you quote on the form is not set in stone!
Sorry for noy replying sooner but my internet connection has been down.
Thanks.
Follow the advise of everyone else and do a bit of timing then submit it sharpish to guarantee entry. If you can retest and change it great, if not, not probs. When it does come to doing the event if you are faster or slower just touch people's feet to overtake at the end of the lane and vice versa if they wanna overtake you.
They start the swim in 15 sec intervals, fastest first. One guy could barely string two lengths together and had obviously guessed at 5 mins and then came seriously unstuck
I would def time yourself, but otherwise go for 10 mins at least, so you dont get yourself caught up with faster swimmers
Cheers