Sure you can swim any events in a given time frame if your goal is to simply complete them. But if you're looking to maximize your performance at Nationals, you don't want your two best events on the same day with only one event between them. For those of you who don't know Doug, he will most likely be in the top three and can possibly win both of those events. If I were Doug, I wouldn't be thrilled with the event lineup either.
I'm sorry, but we're talking two 50's, roughly an hour and a half apart. If you can't recover from a max-effort 50 in an hour and a half, you don't deserve to win both.
Probably 80% of competitors have at least two events closer together than they'd like. Last time I went, it was the 400 and 100 free back-to-back. PR'd both, and that 100 was statistically my best swim of the meet. Looking at the schedule for this year's meet, they're back-to-back again. My plan is to suck it up, give my max effort on the 400, do a good cool down, get some recovery nutrition immediately, rest, and go give it hell again in the 100. I only wish my worst combo was two 50's with ~30 heats of 100 *** in between.
Sure you can swim any events in a given time frame if your goal is to simply complete them. But if you're looking to maximize your performance at Nationals, you don't want your two best events on the same day with only one event between them. For those of you who don't know Doug, he will most likely be in the top three and can possibly win both of those events. If I were Doug, I wouldn't be thrilled with the event lineup either.
I'm sorry, but we're talking two 50's, roughly an hour and a half apart. If you can't recover from a max-effort 50 in an hour and a half, you don't deserve to win both.
Probably 80% of competitors have at least two events closer together than they'd like. Last time I went, it was the 400 and 100 free back-to-back. PR'd both, and that 100 was statistically my best swim of the meet. Looking at the schedule for this year's meet, they're back-to-back again. My plan is to suck it up, give my max effort on the 400, do a good cool down, get some recovery nutrition immediately, rest, and go give it hell again in the 100. I only wish my worst combo was two 50's with ~30 heats of 100 *** in between.
