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Our training plans are designed for adult citizen athletes who train ‘on a budget’ – a limited amount of time and energy available for training, in addition to other life and work responsibilities. Therefore, the training strategy is about getting the most sustainable performance gains from your limited amount of training time.
For those who are already capable of 5k swims, setting up a full 5k race distance test swim every cycle may not fit into your time and energy budget. And for others, who are new to this distance, the whole point of the program is to get you ready for that distance by the end of the training period.
With that in mind, the test swim is much shorter than race-distance, meant to sample your progressing abilities without requiring a long recovery.
So, I will provide you with a rough calibrated distance-goal chart to accompany your test swim results. This chart is based on the expectation that you may swim 2% faster on this shorter distance.
If your goal is to achieve 5km in MM number of minutes, then you can aim to achieve XX distance in your 60 minute test swim. (Minutes for 5K / Distance Swam In 60 minutes)
- 130 minutes / 2400 meters
- 125 minutes / 2500 meters
- 120 minutes / 2600 meters
- 115 minutes / 2700 meters
- 110 minutes / 2800 meters
- 105 minutes / 2950 meters
- 100 minutes / 3100 meters
- 95 minutes / 3250 meters
- 90 minutes / 3400 meters
- 85 minutes / 3600 meters
- 80 minutes / 3850 meters
This will give you some numbers to use to evaluate your data from the 60 minute test swim.
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