I'm a breastroker at heart, but I always get hooked on distance events after all the OW swimming over the summer and until this year didn't race anything over 200m until march.
in march 2011 i swam a 1500SCM 20:00:36
last week i swam a 1500 LCM 19:38.84 (my 800 split was 30s faster than my worlds time in 2010 which would have been about 7 places better :)
but now OW season is over and there is just over 5 months until my next big meet where I am thinking of attempting to go for 18:45 SCM (1:15/100m) but I don't like giving up my chances for a :32 / 1:12 for the 50 and 100 ***.
is it possible to build on my current endurance by only swimming one middle distance workout and one distance workout each week with 2 sprint workouts in the middle?
My event line up can look like this:
Friday night
200 IM
1500 Free
Saturday
100 ***
100 Fly
4x50 mixed free relay
200 ***
200 Fly (? only if I don't make one of the relays)
4x50m free relay
Sunday
400 free
50 ***
100 back (? only if I don't make one of the relays)
4x50 medley relay
I'm a breastroker at heart, but I always get hooked on distance events after all the OW swimming over the summer and until this year didn't race anything over 200m until march.
:chug: We're in the same boat (pool?), Rykno! This was the related thread I posted: How do I train 400 IM without losing sprint speed? - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums
I swam my first open water races at the Georgia Games this past summer; a 3K, followed by a 1k, about five minutes later. I had a blast and discovered a new love for distance swimming. Between that and my two endurance fly swims in June, my coach declared me a distance swimmer. So, I swam several new distance events at Dixie Zone Championships- in addition to my 50 and 100 breaststroke races.
I am also a breaststroker at heart; the 50 is my best race of all the swim events I have tried. But, I am negative splitting my distance races and my coach feels I am better suited for distance.
Pwb is right- and, he gave me the same advice. Keep us posted on how you do with this; I will be curious to know! Don't give up your breaststroke, but give yourself the opportunity to see how you do in longer events.
In my meets, I will always race at least the 50 and 100 breaststroke, even if I give up the 200. But, I am competing in 400 IM, as well. In my December SCM meet, I plan to race 400 IM, 50 br, 100 br, either 200 br or try 200 free for the first time, and end it with 400 free.
As for training, I still save Mondays and Fridays as my sprint days, but I train distance on the other four days.
Good luck!
:cheerleader:
I'm a breastroker at heart, but I always get hooked on distance events after all the OW swimming over the summer and until this year didn't race anything over 200m until march.
:chug: We're in the same boat (pool?), Rykno! This was the related thread I posted: How do I train 400 IM without losing sprint speed? - U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums
I swam my first open water races at the Georgia Games this past summer; a 3K, followed by a 1k, about five minutes later. I had a blast and discovered a new love for distance swimming. Between that and my two endurance fly swims in June, my coach declared me a distance swimmer. So, I swam several new distance events at Dixie Zone Championships- in addition to my 50 and 100 breaststroke races.
I am also a breaststroker at heart; the 50 is my best race of all the swim events I have tried. But, I am negative splitting my distance races and my coach feels I am better suited for distance.
Pwb is right- and, he gave me the same advice. Keep us posted on how you do with this; I will be curious to know! Don't give up your breaststroke, but give yourself the opportunity to see how you do in longer events.
In my meets, I will always race at least the 50 and 100 breaststroke, even if I give up the 200. But, I am competing in 400 IM, as well. In my December SCM meet, I plan to race 400 IM, 50 br, 100 br, either 200 br or try 200 free for the first time, and end it with 400 free.
As for training, I still save Mondays and Fridays as my sprint days, but I train distance on the other four days.
Good luck!
:cheerleader:
