I am doing the 200 fly for the first time. RUH OH!!!
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It's gonna be next weekend on April 1 at the 2012 Pacific Masters SCY Champs in Moraga, CA.
Please help me out! What do I do? What's the best strategy? My 100 fly PB is 1:04.2, but my in-season time is currently at 1:08.86.
I will also be doing the 200 back and ***. I haven't done the 200 *** in ages. The last time I did it (Jan '11) was absolutely horrible- I got a 3:17 when my 100 time at the same meet was 1:29. My 100 time has since gone down to 1:17. I just really, really want to go under 3 minutes in the event. What do you guys think will help?
As for the 200 back, my PB in that event is a 2:31.72 from a taper meet last July. My converted scy time from a meet close to that one is about a 2:47, but I'm getting down pretty close, in the 100 at least, to my taper time at this stroke. Last month, I went 1:09.6, which was just a second off my taper time of 1:08.6.
All suggestions, strategies, condolences... are welcome! If I don't survive, James Thornton gets to have all my posts.
I did 200 ***, 100 IM, 50 fly, plus the 400 free relay. I got PBs in 200Br and 100 IM; 50 fly was :afraid:. (I used to be a flyer, but I've been recreating myself as a breaststroker since I seem to have much more success at that).
I'm nowhere near as good as you guys, but here goes: 3:17.26 for 200 Br (in 2011 I was 3:19.2 and in 2010 I was 3:18.82, so while I still think I could do much better, I'm happy with the improvement). Splits were: 45.14 51.18 51.81 49.13. So, not too great for splitting, right? I think I should have picked it up in the 3rd 50 a bit more. Tomorrow I am supposed to swim 50 *** and 100 ***, so that should give me some more benchmarks to judge the 200 by.
100 IM beat my time from two years ago (didn't swim it last year) by about 1.4 secs, so again, I am happy.
50 fly: just no gas left in the tank after freezing all day plus doing the other events. And I think my timing is off. Every now and then it feels good in practice, but not today. I was probably too high out of the water, too.
So, tomorrow, in addition to 50 br and 100 br, I am supposed to do 1000 free (don't ask me why) and two relays. There will undoubtedly be some scratching! (Particularly hoping for a scratch in the 400 MR -- I don't think I want to do *that* much breaststroke, and of course it comes right after the 100 br).
Good luck to both of you!!! :cheerleader:
I did 200 ***, 100 IM, 50 fly, plus the 400 free relay. I got PBs in 200Br and 100 IM; 50 fly was :afraid:. (I used to be a flyer, but I've been recreating myself as a breaststroker since I seem to have much more success at that).
I'm nowhere near as good as you guys, but here goes: 3:17.26 for 200 Br (in 2011 I was 3:19.2 and in 2010 I was 3:18.82, so while I still think I could do much better, I'm happy with the improvement). Splits were: 45.14 51.18 51.81 49.13. So, not too great for splitting, right? I think I should have picked it up in the 3rd 50 a bit more. Tomorrow I am supposed to swim 50 *** and 100 ***, so that should give me some more benchmarks to judge the 200 by.
100 IM beat my time from two years ago (didn't swim it last year) by about 1.4 secs, so again, I am happy.
50 fly: just no gas left in the tank after freezing all day plus doing the other events. And I think my timing is off. Every now and then it feels good in practice, but not today. I was probably too high out of the water, too.
So, tomorrow, in addition to 50 br and 100 br, I am supposed to do 1000 free (don't ask me why) and two relays. There will undoubtedly be some scratching! (Particularly hoping for a scratch in the 400 MR -- I don't think I want to do *that* much breaststroke, and of course it comes right after the 100 br).
Good luck to both of you!!! :cheerleader:
