On February 20, I'm hoping to go to my first swim meet......ever! :eek: I swam on the team when I was younger, but I never competed. I'm incredibly nervous already and I have no idea what to expect because I have never been to a meet before. I swam with my friend who is a coach, and I have what seems like a lot of work to do on my strokes. How realistic is it that I be ready by February? Obviously I won't be at the top of the field, but I'm hoping to at least not make a fool out of myself. But what I really want to know is what to expect. How do I train, and how do I taper? When do I start tapering? Do I even need to taper? Any good pre-meet workout ideas? Any thing that anyone can suggest would be helpful!!! Thanx a bunch!!
~Kyra
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I finally have my seed times, some of which I'm not to happy with but this is my first meet so I'll live. And then I realized, I have completely spaced the rules. I read a rule book a while back, and for the life of me I can't remember some rules that I know are important. So here's my questions:
1) In an IM, going from back to ***, do you turn over on your stomach, flip and then go, or do I have to touch the wall while I'm still on my back?
2) During ***, how strict are they are on turning out your toes? I think I do this already, but just in case I want to be sure I don't get DQ'd.
3) How about the underwater portion, on all strokes. My breath capacity is alright, but not great, so how what are the rules for underwater swimming, in terms of kicks and pulls?
4) Is there a rule on when you breathe? I tend to breath at the T before I turn, but I know you're supposed to breathe at the flags, does that get you a DQ? Also, can you get DQ'd for taking a breath on your first stroke out? I'm trying to work on not doing this because I know it slows you down, but sometimes you just gotta!
Thanks for all your help everybody!! You are such awesome people and you have made this whole experience much less frightening knowing that I have people to answer my questions!!!
~Kyra
p.s. Any ideas on how to pace a 200 free? I generally try to start out slow and work up to an all out sprint the last 50...is that a good idea?
I finally have my seed times, some of which I'm not to happy with but this is my first meet so I'll live. And then I realized, I have completely spaced the rules. I read a rule book a while back, and for the life of me I can't remember some rules that I know are important. So here's my questions:
1) In an IM, going from back to ***, do you turn over on your stomach, flip and then go, or do I have to touch the wall while I'm still on my back?
2) During ***, how strict are they are on turning out your toes? I think I do this already, but just in case I want to be sure I don't get DQ'd.
3) How about the underwater portion, on all strokes. My breath capacity is alright, but not great, so how what are the rules for underwater swimming, in terms of kicks and pulls?
4) Is there a rule on when you breathe? I tend to breath at the T before I turn, but I know you're supposed to breathe at the flags, does that get you a DQ? Also, can you get DQ'd for taking a breath on your first stroke out? I'm trying to work on not doing this because I know it slows you down, but sometimes you just gotta!
Thanks for all your help everybody!! You are such awesome people and you have made this whole experience much less frightening knowing that I have people to answer my questions!!!
~Kyra
p.s. Any ideas on how to pace a 200 free? I generally try to start out slow and work up to an all out sprint the last 50...is that a good idea?
