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
PWB: that's true. I could call 2013 my distance year. 2014 will be the year of my First IM and a good distance year in 2013 will get me off to a great start.
ElaineK: thanks for the link to your 400IM post! I always swim 50/100 br when they are available ;)
for the next 4-6 weeks I'm going to work on my speed and see how it feels with a distance test swim dec 2. If it doesn't go well I'll have to re-think my training for the remaining 10 weeks.
the good thing is that I have teammates that push me in *** as well as in the 1500.
PWB: that's true. I could call 2013 my distance year. 2014 will be the year of my First IM and a good distance year in 2013 will get me off to a great start.
ElaineK: thanks for the link to your 400IM post! I always swim 50/100 br when they are available ;)
for the next 4-6 weeks I'm going to work on my speed and see how it feels with a distance test swim dec 2. If it doesn't go well I'll have to re-think my training for the remaining 10 weeks.
the good thing is that I have teammates that push me in *** as well as in the 1500.
