The best thing about Masters swimming is that you can just decide to try a different event. So Lately I've been thinking about trying to swim the 100 fly in the next SCY meet I do. Until masters I had never competed in any fly event. So the 100 fly is a complete unknown to me.
This week to get an idea of what my starting point is I've done two 100 flys of the wall in practice during sets with the fastest being a 1:02/1:03. This was in the middle of a set of 6 X 100 free. 1-3 were on 1:40 moderate and 4-6 on 2:00 Hard. I swam fly on #4.
Natually I am encouraged by that time and it has me thinking. Maybe I can get with in striking distance of a top ten 10 with this. For my age group (35-39) it looks like I would need to go sub :55 to have a chance. But is that possible for someone who has never competed in the 100 fly? And if so, what kind of 50 fly speed will I need to have to accomplish that?
Also any advice on how to train for the 100 fly when your work outs don't really have a lot of fly in them. I swim with a team with workouts prepared by the coach.
Kevin
Also any advice on how to train for the 100 fly when your work outs don't really have a lot of fly in them.
I tend not to swim much more than a 50 of fly at a time in practice. It has paid off - in the last two years, my nationals times in the 50 and 100 have been PBs.
But what I will do is any set where we have some 25s and/or 50s where we're doing monotonous freestyle garbage yardage, I will swim something fly instead of free, or do 50s fly/back.
Also any advice on how to train for the 100 fly when your work outs don't really have a lot of fly in them.
I tend not to swim much more than a 50 of fly at a time in practice. It has paid off - in the last two years, my nationals times in the 50 and 100 have been PBs.
But what I will do is any set where we have some 25s and/or 50s where we're doing monotonous freestyle garbage yardage, I will swim something fly instead of free, or do 50s fly/back.
