I guess some background information may help you in answering my question. Hello, my name is Alex and I am quickly approaching my last year of high school swimming. Last high school season I finished my 200 yard free with my best time of 2:12.17 (not that stellar I know :cry: ) However I did end up getting second place overall. Now next high school season I'm ranked first in the 200 yard free, but there's always room for improvement. I would LOVE to get the school record (1:55.45) by may 2012 but that's pushing it I think. So how do you swim a 200 free?
Last 200 yard free I swam I got a time of 2:17.09 I tried breathing every 4 the whole race and it really tired me out.
I believe my next strategy is going to be
1st 25 - go 99% breathing every 4
75 - 500 pace breathing every 2
50 - going 100% breathing every 6
50 - anything I got left
My 50 free time is a 26.56 :)
That will be tough to be a 1:55 with a 26.5 as a best 50 time.
This is how I split my 200 Free at Nationals last spring. Yeah, it's not the best splitting there, and I went out too fast considering the conditioning I was in prior to the meet.
25.67 / 28.76 (54.4) / 30.17 / 30.33 (1:00.5) = 1:54.93
You've got to have the right mix of speed and pacing in the 200. It's tough because you can't go out too slow because you just won't be able to come back fast enough to make up for it, but also the reverse...if you go out too fast (like my above splits), you don't have enough left on the back half. It's a very tough race to get perfect.
My 50 free time is a 26.56 :)
That will be tough to be a 1:55 with a 26.5 as a best 50 time.
This is how I split my 200 Free at Nationals last spring. Yeah, it's not the best splitting there, and I went out too fast considering the conditioning I was in prior to the meet.
25.67 / 28.76 (54.4) / 30.17 / 30.33 (1:00.5) = 1:54.93
You've got to have the right mix of speed and pacing in the 200. It's tough because you can't go out too slow because you just won't be able to come back fast enough to make up for it, but also the reverse...if you go out too fast (like my above splits), you don't have enough left on the back half. It's a very tough race to get perfect.
