Once upon a time--say the better part of three decades ago--I could sprint fairly fast. I went 22.8 and 50 flat in the 50 and 100. I have resumed swimming and begun to compete, and I have noticed that I seem to have a governor blade of some sort on my speed. Just swam my first meet and went 28 and 1:02. I know I will improve, but I sense that I may not be able to improve dramatically. Has anyone seen big jumps of improvements for short races? If so, how?
The good news is that I felt really strong coming home in the 100, and it made me think that maybe I should try the 200 and even the 500. In the former case, how do people approach splitting a 200, and what sort of training do you do? Thinking about this in the context of a zone meet in 3 to 4 weeks.
Look forward to your thoughts.
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I am experiencing the same issues as Red60. In high school, I was a sprinter and now, 25 years later, I can't seem to sprint at all. I just can't get it going that fast.
Red60, I don't have the answer for you as I am still experimenting to find out where my current niche is. Right now I'm working on building endurance and swimming only 200s and longer. I started realizing that I can't sprint anymore when I noticed that my peers who left me far behind in their wake on the 50s, weren't so far ahead of me on the 100s.
Yippee, an almost another distance swimmer!!!:groovy:
donna
I am experiencing the same issues as Red60. In high school, I was a sprinter and now, 25 years later, I can't seem to sprint at all. I just can't get it going that fast.
Red60, I don't have the answer for you as I am still experimenting to find out where my current niche is. Right now I'm working on building endurance and swimming only 200s and longer. I started realizing that I can't sprint anymore when I noticed that my peers who left me far behind in their wake on the 50s, weren't so far ahead of me on the 100s.
Yippee, an almost another distance swimmer!!!:groovy:
donna
