I use the color chart system as well. However, I modified my test set for sprinters. We do 5x100 free on 2:15. The average is the purple time. I reverse engineered all the equations to create the rest of the chart. For stroke we do 12x50 on 1:30. One fly one back one breast. Times 4. The average of each is then that’s strokes purple 50
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