Would it be very detrimental to my swimming if I trained and did one of these? Read the book "Born to Run" and really want to do at least one ultramarathon. However, I still want to improve on swimming especially getting better in 100 fly and eventually working up to 200 fly. Thoughts?
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Never done a 200 fly period in practice or a meet although I'm starting to get within daylight of the goal. Several months ago I couldn't swim 75-85 yds of a 100 without dying. Now I can do several repeat 100's before the piano falls (as long as i have a min rest or so in between). Actually my butterfly is probably as fast as my freestyle which i know means my freestyle sucks. I think my problem swimming the 200 fly would be maintaining a slow tempo. It just seems that fly is so much smoother when swum faster at least for me.
Never done a 200 fly period in practice or a meet although I'm starting to get within daylight of the goal. Several months ago I couldn't swim 75-85 yds of a 100 without dying. Now I can do several repeat 100's before the piano falls (as long as i have a min rest or so in between). Actually my butterfly is probably as fast as my freestyle which i know means my freestyle sucks. I think my problem swimming the 200 fly would be maintaining a slow tempo. It just seems that fly is so much smoother when swum faster at least for me.
