Like many others, I've made the transition to outdoor LCM swimming for the summer. I love it in many ways. But I have noticed that the "garbage yards" problem creeps in when I swim long course. I work on my stroke, which is good, but my tempo and overall intensity drop. I swim with fitness lap swimmers for the most part, or alone. The other day I swam some 100s alternating between easy and hard, and made some progress on the hard ones. But I notice that I anticipate my pool time less because it feels like I'm mailing it in.
Does anybody else have this problem? If so, do you have suggestions for how to introduce more variation and intensity into long course swimming?
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I swam a lcm meet at smu a few weeks back. I had literally not swam a lcm stroke in 3 years and not in a meet since 1991
I swam the 50 and 100 free and I swear to God I thought that second 50 on my 100 would never end!!!!!!! I kept thinking. "where is the freaking wall!!!??"
I swam a lcm meet at smu a few weeks back. I had literally not swam a lcm stroke in 3 years and not in a meet since 1991
I swam the 50 and 100 free and I swear to God I thought that second 50 on my 100 would never end!!!!!!! I kept thinking. "where is the freaking wall!!!??"
