World Trials

That's my boy. It always impresses me that his second 50 is better than his first. He was .04 behind Randall at the split, and I think .06 slower on the start, but then to be that far ahead at the finish is just cool.

whoa piersol sets a new world record in the 100 back what a blazing 2nd 50 there's only a 1.25 second difference between his second and first 50, that's the way to split it. 27.21 - 25.96 = 1.25 he could improve his 200 back record too when he broke his record at trials he only went 54 low in the 100 back, he's now a full second faster. wonder if he'll go 1:53? ande Event 9 Men 100 LC Meter Backstroke ================================================================== World: W 53.45 8/21/2004 Aaron Peirsol, USA American: A 53.45 8/21/2004 Aaron Peirsol, USA U.S. Open: O 53.64 7/9/2004 Aaron Peirsol, Irvine Nova Oly Trials08: T 57.99 Meet Cut: 58.69 Name Age Team Prelims Finals FINA ================================================================== === A - Final === 1 Peirsol, Aaron 21 Longhorn Aquatic 53.17 W r:+0.66 25.96 53.17 (27.21)

Beard is not in the 100 *** either. What happen.

who are the big guns? Let's say they are olympians like coughlin, piersol, crocker, hansen, walker, phelps, dusing, lochte, and lezak I'm pretty sure everyone tapered for world trials why wouldn't they be rested? The championships aren't till like july. once trials is done those who made it can go through a whole new training cycle to prepare for worlds. If the times aren't as fast as the olympic times, this while important, isn't as big of a deal as being in the olympics and swimming for gold. Some swimmers took a break after the olympics. I think phelps could qualify in most events with out much rest. everyone who went to NCAA's rested for NCAA's then added another week. so far lochte's long course times don't seem as spectacular as his short course times. Some might swimmer have missed hitting their taper at NCAA's, Like weber-gale, his 22.44 50 LCM free seems much more impressive than his 50 fr at NCAA's Where as, I would have thought lochte would have been faster in the 100 and 200 free based on his NCAA times, he cut his 100 prelim swim dangerously close. I was impressed with Lochte's 400 IM in finals, especially his last 50. I'm having lunch with eddie reese next wednesday, so I can ask him how much rest his guys got. my guess is the texas guys rested for several weeks going into trials, some where between 4 - 6 weeks if I had to guess hope this helps, ande Originally posted by SwiminONandON Ande, can you settle a bet for my friend and I. He thinks that the "big guns" didn't taper for Trials. I told him that there was no way they didn't do at least a shorter taper, my guess was 10 days - 2 weeks. Can you confirm this?

to beat the south africans, if no one from south africa retired the US needs 4 guys who can split, 47 high to 48 low plus they need to make top 6 tonight guess we'll wait and see they probably won't need to be as fast as they were at the olympics to win ande Originally posted by seltzer I think phelps could make it with out much rest. Don't know about the other swimmers but given Phelps quotes after his 100 fly and his approach to Olympic Trials its unlikely that he rested much, if at all. I agree that he is probably the exception. As Ande pointed out the NCAA swimmers have had to deal with "partial rest" for their conference championship and then taper for NCAA and then switch from SC to LC for Trials. I think that is mentally challenging. (No doubt, the scheduling decision was still the best given our inperfect world). 100 free finals should be interesting tonight and looking ahead do we think that the US can beat the South Africans in the 4 X 100 relay at Worlds?

my guess is peirsol and hansen are swimming enough on their off days to maintain their speed and keep their feel for the water. probably around 2,000 maybe eddie's standard meet warm up which is something like 500 free 400 pull 300 kick 200 drill like 4 x 50 100 sprints like 4 x 25 probably followed by a training set of some sort then a warm down. both are probably doing some 200 pace work since both have 200 next maybe something like 4 x 50 near race pace yep guys wear different suits for different events as I recall a the olympics crocker wore a fast skin with fabric to the ankle but no top hansen and piersol wore jammers and I think walker wore a hi neck body skin on the relay. I tend to wear a high neck body skin but I haven't tried my times other ways ande Originally posted by SwiminONandON I ran into a Mission Viejo swimmer at dinner and he said they did a two week taper. While I was tempted to shout down to some of the longhorns and ask I 1- felt dumb doing that and 2 - Didn't want to distract them from their races or their teammates races. But I'd love it if you asked Eddie Reese. Thanks! I rationalized it the same way you did. I figured World Trials are a ways away and they don't want to risk not making the team. Competition is tight at trials. Also a couple more things since we are on topic (more or less) A lot of them didn't seem to cool down right away, what's that about? And a lot of them switched suits back and forth like crazy. And how much are they swimming on days in between races. For example Peirsol and Hansen had a couple days off between their 100s and 200s how much are the swimming on the days they don't have races? My guess is between a grand and two grand. Thanks Ande, by the way we were cheering for all of the Longhorns at trials!

Ande, can you settle a bet for my friend and I. He thinks that the "big guns" didn't taper for Trials. I told him that there was no way they didn't do at least a shorter taper, my guess was 10days - 2 weeks. Can you confirm this?

I think phelps could make it with out much rest. Don't know about the other swimmers but given Phelps quotes after his 100 fly and his approach to Olympic Trials its unlikely that he rested much, if at all. I agree that he is probably the exception. As Ande pointed out the NCAA swimmers have had to deal with "partial rest" for their conference championship and then taper for NCAA and then switch from SC to LC for Trials. I think that is mentally challenging. (No doubt, the scheduling decision was still the best given our inperfect world). 100 free finals should be interesting tonight and looking ahead do we think that the US can beat the South Africans in the 4 X 100 relay at Worlds?

yes that's exactly what it is it measures reaction time .60 - .69 is fast about a year or so ago the swim center got new blocks with pressure sensors too they only use them in big meets Ande Originally posted by breastroker Anyone notice the times posted at Swiminfo? It looks like the r .72 is a reaction time as far as I can guess. Do these starting blocks have electronic pressure sensors?

I ran into a Mission Viejo swimmer at dinner and he said they did a two week taper. While I was tempted to shout down to some of the longhorns and ask I 1- felt dumb doing that and 2 - Didn't want to distract them from their races or their teammates races. But I'd love it if you asked Eddie Reese. Thanks! I rationalized it the same way you did. I figured World Trials are a ways away and they don't want to risk not making the team. Competition is tight at trials. Also a couple more things since we are on topic (more or less) A lot of them didn't seem to cool down right away, what's that about? And a lot of them switched suits back and forth like crazy. And how much are they swimming on days in between races. For example Peirsol and Hansen had a couple days off between their 100s and 200s how much are the swimming on the days they don't have races? My guess is between a grand and two grand. Thanks Ande, by the way we were cheering for all of the Longhorns at trials!