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?
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Swam the 200 IM again last weekend and had a much better race. I took the fly out a lot easier than I did a month ago, and what do you know I actually had energy still in breaststroke. My legs were burning on the free but I was still able to pick it up. It was a great race, still not fast (or anywhere near fast), but dramactically improved for me ... a 17 second drop. A couple more meets with 17 second drops and it'll be fast. ha
I love this race now, it's one of my favorites.
It's still that dang breaststroke leg that kills me. I was ahead of the girl in the lane next to me until that leg and couldn't catch her on the free leg, though I made a valiant effort.
Swam the 200 IM again last weekend and had a much better race. I took the fly out a lot easier than I did a month ago, and what do you know I actually had energy still in breaststroke. My legs were burning on the free but I was still able to pick it up. It was a great race, still not fast (or anywhere near fast), but dramactically improved for me ... a 17 second drop. A couple more meets with 17 second drops and it'll be fast. ha
I love this race now, it's one of my favorites.
It's still that dang breaststroke leg that kills me. I was ahead of the girl in the lane next to me until that leg and couldn't catch her on the free leg, though I made a valiant effort.
