Following in from my short comment about my first 5k on Saturday in the random race thread, I finally had a chance to delve into my splits.
As I knew to be the case, a fairly solid negative split. Really not sure what happened there, as there was no obvious increase in effort. The pace just seemed to get quicker!
I would have liked to have been swimming 8:20’s per 500, which is 1:40/100 pace, but as soon as I arrived and saw the high sides on the pool I knew from other pools I’ve swam in that it was going to cost me an extra second or two per 100. I’m really happy though. A few weeks ago I felt I had no chance swimming anything near 1:40-1:45 pace over a 3.8k, whereas I’ve now done that in a fairly slow pool over a longer distance. Just need to keep the practice up! Getting close to the hour, at least in the low 60s, might not be entirely out of the question now.
500m splits…
8.31 - 8.31
17.05 - 8.34
25.37 - 8.32
34.09 - 8.32
42.36 - 8.27
50.58 - 8.32
59.22 - 8.24
67.49 - 8.27
76.18 - 8.29
84.39 - 8.21