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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It seems for some of us the problem starts with an inability to decide which events we're going to attempt to "go for glory" in.
Though I've learned that I can swim up to 3 events without qualifying times at nationals, since this will be my first year I'm decided I am going to get qualifying times to make myself feel better. For me, that means backstroke events.
Still, I really am enjoying swimming fly and IM. This can be a challenge. Last meet, I did 50 fly (mostly to get tuned up) all the backstroke events, 200 medley relay, and 200 IM. I would really like to swim 100 and 200 fly, but in the order of events we've been following, they preceed or follow back.
I'm working on resolving my competing desires to swim almost everything and just a few events that I can really stake a claim to.
It seems for some of us the problem starts with an inability to decide which events we're going to attempt to "go for glory" in.
Though I've learned that I can swim up to 3 events without qualifying times at nationals, since this will be my first year I'm decided I am going to get qualifying times to make myself feel better. For me, that means backstroke events.
Still, I really am enjoying swimming fly and IM. This can be a challenge. Last meet, I did 50 fly (mostly to get tuned up) all the backstroke events, 200 medley relay, and 200 IM. I would really like to swim 100 and 200 fly, but in the order of events we've been following, they preceed or follow back.
I'm working on resolving my competing desires to swim almost everything and just a few events that I can really stake a claim to.
