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My 200yd TT with the Finis Swimsense
Right now the finis software doesn’t have a good way of sharing the details of a workout since you have to be logged in to see these screens. So I took some screen shots to show you what I get to see. This first window shows the breakdown of my 200yd TT by length. The bottom section is a slider that can be adjusted left or right to see different parts of the workout. You can select an interval, length or entire workout and the graphs below will reflect that selection.
You can see I started out pretty strong, started to slow down after 100yds, then picked it up for that last 50. My last 200yd TT was 2:53 and this one was 2:37 so I’m happy with the improvement, but I can’t help but think that with a little better pacing I could shave 5 more seconds off. I’m a little surprised that my 2nd to last length was so slow.
These next graphs show that as I slowed down my form probably also started to break down as my stroke count goes up. Having never looked at stroke counts much, I didn’t know what a good number was. Glen Gore, who’s a pro triathlete was pretty consistently at 10 in his 30X100M repeats. And if he’s swimming in a 25m pool, it would probably be even lower in a shorter pool. 
His distance per stroke was above 3m, whereas mine is between 2 and 2.8y. This graph shows that after halfway my stroke rate continued to increase while I got slower, which I think is an indicator of my form breaking down.
Are there other things I’m missing in the analysis of this?
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