I am 29 and started to swimm few months ago.
I learned breaststroke only and I swim 50m between 1:00 and 1:10m (from pool edge, no jump).
In 5 weeks there is an amateur open water 1km contest. I swimm 1km in 22 minutes.
I've been told thats absolutely fine for the contest, but there are faster swimmers of course, since most people will swimm freestyle.
So i started with freestyle few days ago, but i am slower and have less endurance at the moment, then with breaststroke.
Does it make sense to work on my freestyle in the time that is left or should i continue to work on my breaststroke? (just discovered the 'The Breaststroke Lane' thread here :) )
Right now I swimm 3 days per week, each 2km breaststroke, but I am willing to train 4-5 times per week.
I understand that in open water anything goes, in terms of which swim stroke you wish to utilize. With that being said if you participate in a swim meet and the event is freestyle then you can still swim breaststroke if you choose. I have participated in swimming events where it clearly states frontcrawl, instead of freestyle. Look at the verbiage the meet organizer is using. Personally I think doing a 22 minute 1km breaststroke is pretty dam good.
I understand that in open water anything goes, in terms of which swim stroke you wish to utilize. With that being said if you participate in a swim meet and the event is freestyle then you can still swim breaststroke if you choose. I have participated in swimming events where it clearly states frontcrawl, instead of freestyle. Look at the verbiage the meet organizer is using. Personally I think doing a 22 minute 1km breaststroke is pretty dam good.
