If it was legal to swim the four strokes of the IM in any order, your choice as long as you completed all four, what order would you choose? Would your choice be different depending on the distance of the IM?
Hmmm. As one of the breaststrokers so quickly despised in this thread, I must say that I enjoy having the IM order the way it is.
I like getting fly out of the way. While I never use any stroke for recovery, backstroke is a good stroke to prepare for the breastroke. And freestyle is a good final stroke, though it's really my worst stroke in the IM.
And if breaststroke were first, all of the breaststrokers would definitely win the race! We'd have all the energy necessary to blast ahead the first quarter, then hang on the rest of the race. I could go about six seconds faster leading off with *** than I could if my *** leg were third. Then my fly would still be fairly fast (though ugly) and I'd win the race.
Maybe there should be a meet where people get to pick their order. I'd be interested to see how I'd swim if the IM were ***, back, fly, free. I bet I'd be faster by a couple of seconds.
Hmmm. As one of the breaststrokers so quickly despised in this thread, I must say that I enjoy having the IM order the way it is.
I like getting fly out of the way. While I never use any stroke for recovery, backstroke is a good stroke to prepare for the breastroke. And freestyle is a good final stroke, though it's really my worst stroke in the IM.
And if breaststroke were first, all of the breaststrokers would definitely win the race! We'd have all the energy necessary to blast ahead the first quarter, then hang on the rest of the race. I could go about six seconds faster leading off with *** than I could if my *** leg were third. Then my fly would still be fairly fast (though ugly) and I'd win the race.
Maybe there should be a meet where people get to pick their order. I'd be interested to see how I'd swim if the IM were ***, back, fly, free. I bet I'd be faster by a couple of seconds.
