Hi everybody,
I'm sort of new to swimming (joined a local club about a year and a half ago) and I applied my high school varsity last week. The team's head coach said that if I'm to join the team next season, I have to swim 100m br in less than 1:22m.
I know this isn't too fast, but I have no experience swimming 100m br. My PB for 50m br is 37.11 but that was a long time ago and I'm sure I can swim at least one second faster than that.
So now I have less than two months to become a 100m breaststroker and I'm looking for tips, ideas, drills and workouts to help me swim under 1:20 or at least 1:22.
I'd like to start with splits. What split-technique suits what swimmer?
I thought since I'm more familiar with the 50m br I'd rather try to swim the first length faster (lets say 39 seconds) which will allow me a relatively slower second length (ca.43 seconds), mostly because I'm afraid it'll be harder for me to speed up after 75-80m than to maintain a sub 43s tempo.
What are your beliefs regarding this?
Thanks very much!
Gal
Former Member
Race day was yesterday.
I had pretty much every possible excuse to fail.
I only had 2.5 weeks to change from 50 to 100m br.
I was sick and on meds.
I had to wake up several times the night before because my dog was sick and cried a lot.
I dived awfully.
I got my goggles full of water during that awful dive.
BUT
I DID IT!
I swam 1:22.28
My first 50 was 38:23 - about a second slower than my all out 50m time
(like Ande said)
The second 50 was 44 seconds - 4 seconds drop off, like Allen said.
Reaction Time: 0.69
I read Ande's SFF tips every night,
I had a song in my head,
During the 1st fifty I kept telling myself "Narrow kick! Narrow kick!"
and going back, I kept thinking "1:22, 1:22" and I didn't even feel like I'm getting tired.
I did it! It feels so good.
Thank you guys!! :)
Great job on your accomplishment Galmag! Was this LCM, SCM, or SCY? When I was in high school, we swam SCY.
Thank You.
