Obviously we CANNOT come up with an accurate formula as there are too many variables to consider per each individual. Maybe add 50% to each 100 or something would be more likely to be accurate as they get gassed or hang on the wall. If a swimmer can't even currently DO a 300 meter swim, there is highly unlikely their time will be anywhere near 3x their 100m time. Wha? NO! That's the kind of messed up logic that causes pool swims in tris to become such cluster****s. When is the race? If it's less than a month from now, I would suggest swimming 100m (4 lengths ) and then multiplying your time by 3. Maybe not perfect wording and others might have chosen other words, but I suspect that a sufficiently broad interpretation of the words in the dictionary would find them at least minimally appropriate. I chose to arbitrarily refer to that as a minimum threshhold for adequacy. I felt that a middle-of-bottom-decile might be a good 'next' target - hopefully both seeming achievable and reassuring that it wouldn't be the slowest time in the field. I gave her some percentile paces from a similar-length pool sprint I had done with what seemed a reasonably high proportion of first-timers.Īfter giving the data I thought it might be helpful to the OP to give a qualitative interpretation of a potential time to shoot for. My understanding of the OP was that s/he was looking for some information regarding pace of beginning swimmers and to use that to determine a time to shoot for. That would put you in the worst 10% of a pretty weak field in that one event anyway, but you would still have some folks slower. If you seed yourself well, you'll be amazed at how few people you run into.īased on that, I'd view 9:00 as the minimum threshhold for adequacy. It's no fun if you miss by 3-4 minutes as you will be encountering an endless stream of irritated swimmers passing by you the whole swim (and it will slow you down even more ). They start you off time trial style anyway so you usually have at least 3-5 seconds between you and the next person so if you are off by say 20 seconds, that usually won't mean more than a couple of people you have to pass/or be passed by. I know I seeded myself correctly when I only have to pass or get passed by 1-2 people during the whole swim. You don't have to be accurate to the second but you have to be in the ballpark. You may be a natural but it took me a year of swimming (not consistentlY ) before I went from being in the bottom 15% to about the bottom 40%. If you're practicing a lot (like 4-5x/week ) you'll probably improve slightly so take about 5-10 secs off per 100m and then use that as your time. If you currently take 11:30 to swim it because you have to stop, do you think you will swim it differently when you have other people around you? If you seed yourself too fast, then you will have to stop (or at least pause ) at the wall if someone is trying to get around you. With pool swims, it is important that you get yourself seeded close to the time you are expecting to swim. I would like to know a time to be working for since I am teaching my self how to swim properly by watching videos like totalimmersion and others. It is taking me 11.30 minutes and that is with stopping a couple of times. I read somewhere that it is 7 minutes, but I can't swim 12 laps straight yest in a 25meter pool to equal 300meters. Does anyone know what the average swim is for a beginner at 300meters. I am doing my first sprint triathlon and the swimming is in a indoor pool.
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