One of those swims in a meet whereby you not only exceeded your swim time goal, but it felt better the longer you swam.
I remember one out of 40 years of swimming. Mine was in 1995 at Mt. Hood LC Nationals, the 800 m free. I had overtrained, tapered properly, and felt like a stick of dynamite going off the blocks. Not only did I negative split all the 200s, but I felt like I could have swam forever. I actually didn't want the race to come to an end.
I was spent at the finish, took a minute or two longer than others to get out of the water, but 15 minutes later felt great. I remember seeing the time on the scoreboard and I was in shock. I shaved over a minute off my personal best.
All of these things, to me, make that swim a "power swim." I even scratched all my backstroke events that day because I was so "high." I also remembered how stroke-by-stroke the entire 800 m. felt for several days.
Anyone else have this type of wonderful experience?
Donna
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does a power swim only relate to meet swims? We did "power sets" with my club team once a month. My coaches favorite are:
6x100 your stroke for time from a dive on 6 minutes
I remember swimming my best times in practice and loving that feeling. it also got very competitive with my teammates, because we would be in heats.
3000 free for time from a dive.
There was one time in particular my shoulders were bothering me so my coach told me to swim a 2500 back. This was a great swim for me. I held the same pace for the first 1250, then pushed it and negative split at the back half. It felt great, I wanted to keep going and going.
*sigh* ohh the glory days :)
does a power swim only relate to meet swims? We did "power sets" with my club team once a month. My coaches favorite are:
6x100 your stroke for time from a dive on 6 minutes
I remember swimming my best times in practice and loving that feeling. it also got very competitive with my teammates, because we would be in heats.
3000 free for time from a dive.
There was one time in particular my shoulders were bothering me so my coach told me to swim a 2500 back. This was a great swim for me. I held the same pace for the first 1250, then pushed it and negative split at the back half. It felt great, I wanted to keep going and going.
*sigh* ohh the glory days :)
