Okay... I know, this is perhaps a little bit of a tongue in cheek question...
So often I hear people complaining about not enough 'distance' swims in zone and national meets, or meets in general.
Just having been involved in organizing my firat more serious swim meet I have to ask... Almost noone, or very few people want to swim the 200 fly, or 200 Brast or 200 back?
Is that not 'distance enough?'
I just got a zone meet medal in 200 back, not because I'm fast, but because noone wants to swim it.
How about some real endurance testing events like 400 or 800 Fly? 800 IM? How about a postal 800 IM?
Or 30 minute stroke check off challenge? One for each stroke, rather than just freestyle?
Okay, now that I tossed this out there, I think I'm gonna duck and run. ;)
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Originally posted by Conniekat8
nuttin' slow about 1500 in 18-20 minutes!
(not me, but several of my teammates)
I'd be ecstatic to do a 20 minute 1500m!
Around here I doesn't usually have to worry about being pushed out of the points by a flood of people in my age group doing 18-20 minute 1500s, and most of the people around here that are that fast were age-group swimmers. I have no idea what it is like elsewhere.
Originally posted by Conniekat8
nuttin' slow about 1500 in 18-20 minutes!
(not me, but several of my teammates)
I'd be ecstatic to do a 20 minute 1500m!
Around here I doesn't usually have to worry about being pushed out of the points by a flood of people in my age group doing 18-20 minute 1500s, and most of the people around here that are that fast were age-group swimmers. I have no idea what it is like elsewhere.
