I entered the 200 IM at the 2005 Short course American Championships in Austin

Ande, 2:15 for scm and 2:18 for lcm is still awesome.I cannot do that yet.I would not like to swim next to you ...my ego would be hurt getting beat by a guy almost twice my age :-))).But I would love to watch you swim.It must look pretty impressive(yes, these times are impressive to me, but hey, I have only been swimming for 7 months).

My husband and I looked at the last posted results from I think 2002 on-line. While there were Olympians and NCAA champions there, there were also "not-so-great" swimmers. My husband and I wouldn't have come close to the finals or consols but we wouldn't have finished last either... so the qualifying times can't be too fast.

this update just arrived ande TXLA Schedule February 28 - March 6 Olympians to Compete at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center March 3-5 Come see Olympians Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin, Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, and Ian Crocker compete against each other and top NCAA swimmers at the American Short Course Championships March 3-5 at the Jamail Texas Swimming Center. Other Olympians competing in this trials and finals swimming event include Nate Dusing, Neil Walker, Klete Keller, Mark Gangloff, and Rhi Jeffery. Preliminaries begin at 9 AM each day and finals begin at 6:30 PM. Admission is free. Parking is available in the garages on the corner of Trinity and MLK and Brazos and MLK.

Training Update: I did not train Saturday or Sunday. Monday Feb 28 I arrived late this morning (on purpose) Did a short warm up 8 x 50 25 Bk / 25 FR on :40 sec 1 x 400 easy 8 x 50 Fr on :35 1 x 400 easy 4 x (50 easy speed for time followed by 100 easy) 50 FL 24.9 from a dive 50 Bk 27.1 from a push jammed the turn 50 BR 33.0 from a push 50 FR 24.3 from a push then did a couple 100's warm down ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ My training plans for this week are: Tuesday: Easy, Do stroke drills, Wednesday: Easy, Do stroke drills Thursday: Fast, Do a few fast 25's and 50's Friday: Easy 1,500 - 2,000 Saturday: Race ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I'm also pondering how to swim my race The sprinter in me wants to get up and go for it But I know I need to relax, save my legs on the Fly and Back, keep it smooth, breathe a lot, turn well and really work the *** and free. We'll see, I'll let y'all know how it went

here's how the race went I got 48th out of 59 swimmers I went 2:00.85 in the 200 IM my splits were 48 Rasmussen, Anders 41 Longhorn 2:00.85 11.37 14.03 25.40 15.17 14.53 29.70 55.10 17.81 18.25 36.06 1:31.16 15.31 14.38 29.69 2:00.85 I dolphin kicked pretty hard off the walls on the back leg then had little left for the breastroke and even less for the free but that's my best time for the season If I'd gotten another chance to swim it I think I would have gone faster next time I'm going to try taking it really easy on the fly and back and save my legs for the *** and free maybe I'll get under 2:00 this season

Congrats on your swim Ande! Keep up all your hard work!! ~Kyra

thank you kyra, my next meet is the South Central Masters Zone Championships in San Antonio, TX on Fri April 8 - Sunday April 10th. In the mean time i'll be doing a combination of March 7 - 11: Training hard March 12 - 20: Taking a break the next week cause it's Spring Break and I've got a camp out, beach trip and work training trip, March 21 - 27: training hard the week March 28 - April 8th: resting the next two weeks and getting ready to race April 8 - 10 ande Originally posted by Seagurl51 Congrats on your swim Ande! Keep up all your hard work!! ~Kyra

yep we're in agreement. Easy speed is a hard gear to gage. All I know is next time I swim it, i need to save my legs and I need to be much stronger on the *** and free. Yes I swam to hard on the back and stayed under too long on the kick. The 100 IM is a sprint. the conversion factor from 100 yards to meters is about 5 or 6 seconds. ie the world record in the 100 SCM Free is 46.25 the american record in the 100 Y Free is 41.6 41.6 / 46.25 = .8993 IM splits work out much better on paper than they do in reality, it's hard to factor what you're capable of when you're fatigued. Good luck let us know how you do ande Originally posted by newmastersswimmer I'm sorry you didn't break 2:00 Ande....but you did come very close!! I agree from your splits that you probably would have gone under 2:00 if you went out a tad slower (or maybe just a tad more relaxed) and saved more for the end.....The 200 IM is a tricky event (as you and others have pointed out in another thread here).....I've heard some say that it is an all out sprint....but I don't think it is (unless your someone like Ryan Lochte sp?? or Micheal Phelps)......I think the secret is to try and get out fast during the butterfly and backstroke while still conserving enough energy for the *** and free.....The key IMHO, is staying loose and somewhat fresh during these first two legs while still swimming at a pretty fast rate......Do you think that you may have expended too much energy with the underwater dolphin kicks on backstroke??.....Maybe that extra exertion while holding your breath a little longer took something out of you?? I am swimming a 200 IM (for time at a swim meet) for the first time in 18 years on April 9th (or 10th)....I will let you know what my splits are afterwards......I do think that the 100 IM is more of an all out sprint though.....I am swimming a 100 IM time trial tonite as well as a 100 butterfly time trial tonite (short course meters).....I want to get as close to 1:00 as possible (or hopefully maybe even below 1:00??) in either one or both of them (thinking that about a 5 second conversion from meters to yards would then make a 1:00 convert to a 55 in yards?). I'll let you know the outcome after it is over. newmastersswimmer

thank you, 2:00.85 is not my life time PR, it's just my PR for this season. I think my PR as a master is 1:59 something from 1995 My 200 IM PR is 1:51.4 from 1986. In late 1990 - early 1992 I was in very strong and fast but never swam the 200 IM, I imagine I could have popped a good 200 IM then. I was 20.5 in the 50 y free, 23.6 in the 50 LCM Fr and 25.6 in the 50 LCM FL now that I'm in my 40's I wipe the slate clean each season. Though I am convinced I can continue to improve my current times for a few years, maybe into my early 50's if I continue to train hard. Though I think I'm going to change my focus event each season. right now it's the 200 IM. I'm considering focusing on the 500 next short course season. ande Originally posted by Matthias hey ande, great race although you didn't reach your goal. I'm sure you'll get down 2:00 next time. beating your personal is priceless, so make sure you do your best or even better ;) good luck

If you are swimming LCM time trial, you should divide by 1.11 to get an estimate SCY time. 1:00.0 for 100 IM or 100 fly is equivalent to www.swiminfo.com/.../conversions.asp How'd you do on your time trials?