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
