For some reason or another I have become and IMmer. Why I'm not exactly sure, I guess I like a challenge. I have always been a sprinter so this idea of there being a strategy to a race is new to me. I am however signed up for some 200 and 400 IMs at future meets. (I am able to handle these distances) But my question is what exactly should my race strategy be on a 200 IM? A 400 IM?
Thanks!
Note to non-breaststrokers: You were born too late! Before they were separate events, one could swim butterfly or breastroke as the first leg of the 150 IM. (See article in new USMS magazine this month.)
As a breaststroker, I never liked that event much! (Only swam it several times for an old perpetual trophy at York PA YMCA.) Now IM for me is pretty fast fly, so my hips don't sag, keep a good rhythm and pressure in the back (my worst stroke) and then *** leg depends on what's left at that point. Being more of a distance breaststroker, I can cruise on that leg to catch my breath and still maintain position (or sometimes catchup) with a long smooth stroke. Then, of course, the free is all out. (As all out as a non-sprinter can go and still keep a decent stroke.)
Greetings to all my old Masters friends I haven't seen for years! Susi and I are back into it with a new, small team in Eastern NC. Hope to see you at a Nationals soon!
Note to non-breaststrokers: You were born too late! Before they were separate events, one could swim butterfly or breastroke as the first leg of the 150 IM. (See article in new USMS magazine this month.)
As a breaststroker, I never liked that event much! (Only swam it several times for an old perpetual trophy at York PA YMCA.) Now IM for me is pretty fast fly, so my hips don't sag, keep a good rhythm and pressure in the back (my worst stroke) and then *** leg depends on what's left at that point. Being more of a distance breaststroker, I can cruise on that leg to catch my breath and still maintain position (or sometimes catchup) with a long smooth stroke. Then, of course, the free is all out. (As all out as a non-sprinter can go and still keep a decent stroke.)
Greetings to all my old Masters friends I haven't seen for years! Susi and I are back into it with a new, small team in Eastern NC. Hope to see you at a Nationals soon!
