I tried running through a few pages of search results, but didnt really find relevant results.
For the past few years i have been working very hard on stroke length in practice and have improved a ton in this area (can hit 14 pretty regularly and like 11 if i really focus on lengthening it out (5'10)), but when i get on the blocks and race the 50 or 100 i feel like a lot of that goes out the door and i fall back on only stroke rate.
Do you all have any advice on finding an "optimal" length/rate ratio? or any advice on how to control this urge?
I have been improving consistently, but i just feel that there are greater gains that i could be making.
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I think we can do long and fast strokes. I have always had a long stroke, 50
to 54 strokes a minute in a marathon race but boosted the stroke rate to 75 strokes a minute to sprint in a long race. I still did long strokes when sprinting.
I think we can do long and fast strokes. I have always had a long stroke, 50
to 54 strokes a minute in a marathon race but boosted the stroke rate to 75 strokes a minute to sprint in a long race. I still did long strokes when sprinting.
