Do we have to swim in a lot of meets to go fast? Of people that compete, it seems like there is a wide variance among forum members on meet attendance. Some go to many meets and some go to only a few a year. It seems like some people only attend the big meets or nationals. It obviously helps to get experience at meets, but how many do you need to compete in ideally to (1) swim fast and improve, and/or (2) do well at major competitions such as zones or nationals?
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3 in 5 weeks? I would love to do that, but it ain't in the cards. I can't swim at a meet again until late March because all the local masters meets conflict with my kids' meets/games. I think I can only do one meet between now and zones. Not ideal. I think it probably makes one more mistake prone.
Are you actually going to taper? I thought you didn't like to taper? I picture you crying when you have to shorten your workouts. Plus, the 1650 and 100 fly are kinda different events .... Aren't you swimming the 200 fly as well?
for zones, i will probably sign up for the 50, 100, 200 fly, 1650, 400 im, (the 500 free falls in a bad place in the line-up...swam it as a warm up last year)
get in some time trial/races (even better if you have rival to swim with) i wouldn't find swimming at uss meets very appealing, though i have attended a few dual sanctioned meets that were ok.
i could probably take it easy for 2-3 days and have a good 1650, but for the fly stuff, a couple of weeks would be more like it.
i only cry when i miss practice all together.
3 in 5 weeks? I would love to do that, but it ain't in the cards. I can't swim at a meet again until late March because all the local masters meets conflict with my kids' meets/games. I think I can only do one meet between now and zones. Not ideal. I think it probably makes one more mistake prone.
Are you actually going to taper? I thought you didn't like to taper? I picture you crying when you have to shorten your workouts. Plus, the 1650 and 100 fly are kinda different events .... Aren't you swimming the 200 fly as well?
for zones, i will probably sign up for the 50, 100, 200 fly, 1650, 400 im, (the 500 free falls in a bad place in the line-up...swam it as a warm up last year)
get in some time trial/races (even better if you have rival to swim with) i wouldn't find swimming at uss meets very appealing, though i have attended a few dual sanctioned meets that were ok.
i could probably take it easy for 2-3 days and have a good 1650, but for the fly stuff, a couple of weeks would be more like it.
i only cry when i miss practice all together.
