In high school, strategy was to go out as fast as possible, and hold on. (We did a lot of almost-race-pace training.) For the 500, my 100 splits were a bell curve (fastest at beginning, slower in middle, faster at end). At the last meet, my 500 was pretty much even splits for the 100s.
Now that I'm older, my strategies are:
1) Don't spaz out too much in the 50
2) For the mile, go out slow enough to delay (as much as possible) the "someone punched me in the gut" feeling
3) For the IM, survive the butterfly
:)
In high school, strategy was to go out as fast as possible, and hold on. (We did a lot of almost-race-pace training.) For the 500, my 100 splits were a bell curve (fastest at beginning, slower in middle, faster at end). At the last meet, my 500 was pretty much even splits for the 100s.
Now that I'm older, my strategies are:
1) Don't spaz out too much in the 50
2) For the mile, go out slow enough to delay (as much as possible) the "someone punched me in the gut" feeling
3) For the IM, survive the butterfly
:)
