Why swim distance swim workouts???

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Former Member
I can understand swimming crawl distance workouts but why swim distance backstroke, butterfly or breaststroke? How many events are there that are over 200m for fly, breaststroke or backstroke. To swim anything but max speed for workouts for these strokes is not worth the effort. Butterfrog???
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  • Hey, what about that Canadian woman who only swims open water doing butterfly? She'd need this training for sure, but it is unlikely anyone else would. I can't think of her name off-hand. She did Catalina Channel butterfly; can you imagine?Donna No! I am having psychosomatic pain just contemplating it. I think it was a pyrrhic victory.
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  • Hey, what about that Canadian woman who only swims open water doing butterfly? She'd need this training for sure, but it is unlikely anyone else would. I can't think of her name off-hand. She did Catalina Channel butterfly; can you imagine?Donna No! I am having psychosomatic pain just contemplating it. I think it was a pyrrhic victory.
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