Okay.
Do you like to swim 1 or 2 events per day @ super fast speed at meets (great times)?
Or, do you prefer to swim the max of 4 and 5 events per day (and I mean not just the sprints)?
There are pros and cons to both.
It's so choice/ cool to swim all strokes and distances but at the expense of really fast times. But it's so annoying to get out touched by a competitor who swam 6 laps that day as compared to your 34!
Yeah, depends on your goals. But what do you like to do?!
If you swim more, you've got a better shot of having at least one good swim in there, and maybe even surprise yourself.
Other thoughts:
Who here is on teams that keep records? How does your age group look? 3 years ago, we started tabulating records for our team and noticed that a lot of empty slots were on there, so a bunch of us started swimming these random events at random meets just to fill out the record book. It is certainly fun to get your name all over the place. Think of it as crosstraining in the pool.
Plus, you never know who you might end up meeting by swimming these random events. Could be your future spouse. :dunno: :joker:
My team does! It's fun! We still have blank spaces though.
I think if you want to do really, really well, you should only swim 2-3 events with a sufficient recovery period inbetween. I hate swimming back to back events. Depends on the difficulty of the event too, I guess. But you're in such good shape, I'm sure you could do 3 without suffering.
I think I usually swim 3-4 events per day at a meet. I don't go to many meets, so I usually like to get some times. You can still get top ten time swimming this many events. But I have also showed up to do just one event before (shoulder issue) and that was fabulous too. I know people that swear you should only swim 1-2 per day if you are going for records.
Having sad that, I think Muppet is right that you can surprise yourself with a good swim even though you are exhausted. My best swim this current year (50 free) was at the very end of a two day zones meet where I also swam 4 relays. I was utterly blasted, but still did OK. Since you are the (S)he-Man, I think you could do the same thing.
Here's another thread I started a long time ago on this topic:
ttp://forums.usms.org/showthread.php?t=6789
If you swim more, you've got a better shot of having at least one good swim in there, and maybe even surprise yourself.
Other thoughts:
Who here is on teams that keep records? How does your age group look? 3 years ago, we started tabulating records for our team and noticed that a lot of empty slots were on there, so a bunch of us started swimming these random events at random meets just to fill out the record book. It is certainly fun to get your name all over the place. Think of it as crosstraining in the pool.
Plus, you never know who you might end up meeting by swimming these random events. Could be your future spouse. :dunno: :joker:
My team does! It's fun! We still have blank spaces though.
I think if you want to do really, really well, you should only swim 2-3 events with a sufficient recovery period inbetween. I hate swimming back to back events. Depends on the difficulty of the event too, I guess. But you're in such good shape, I'm sure you could do 3 without suffering.
I think I usually swim 3-4 events per day at a meet. I don't go to many meets, so I usually like to get some times. You can still get top ten time swimming this many events. But I have also showed up to do just one event before (shoulder issue) and that was fabulous too. I know people that swear you should only swim 1-2 per day if you are going for records.
Having sad that, I think Muppet is right that you can surprise yourself with a good swim even though you are exhausted. My best swim this current year (50 free) was at the very end of a two day zones meet where I also swam 4 relays. I was utterly blasted, but still did OK. Since you are the (S)he-Man, I think you could do the same thing.
Here's another thread I started a long time ago on this topic:
ttp://forums.usms.org/showthread.php?t=6789
