Hardest Pool Event?

200 breaststroke...LCM...and this is coming from someone for whom the 200M BR was probably their best event!  The last turn and pullout is pure hell, and then you pop up knowing you still have 40+ meters to go!

Runner up for me woul dbe the 200 Butterfly LCM.  I love butterfly, and I love the 200 yard FL, where my walls and underwaters can shine.  But if you ever want the feeling of being dropped off in the middle of the ocean, no boats or land in sight, no hope of rescue, just do the 200M FL.  Because that is the feelign you get when you go up for your first breath on the last 50 and realize you have to travel 45 meters of butterfly after already struggling through 155!  It is borderline panic attack inducing. The other three strokes you can slow down and float the finish.  Not so with butterfly.  There are only two speeds in butterfly: fast, and slow.  And both take the same amount of energy!

200 breaststroke...LCM...and this is coming from someone for whom the 200M BR was probably their best event!  The last turn and pullout is pure hell, and then you pop up knowing you still have 40+ meters to go!

Runner up for me woul dbe the 200 Butterfly LCM.  I love butterfly, and I love the 200 yard FL, where my walls and underwaters can shine.  But if you ever want the feeling of being dropped off in the middle of the ocean, no boats or land in sight, no hope of rescue, just do the 200M FL.  Because that is the feelign you get when you go up for your first breath on the last 50 and realize you have to travel 45 meters of butterfly after already struggling through 155!  It is borderline panic attack inducing. The other three strokes you can slow down and float the finish.  Not so with butterfly.  There are only two speeds in butterfly: fast, and slow.  And both take the same amount of energy!

Yeah, I can relate; I've done both races several times.  On that last 50 meters, I'm saying to myself, "Are we there yet?  Are we there yet?..." on every breath.