2 Events vs. 4 and 5 Events @ Meets?

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 Thank you for the link Fortress. I think I remember reading that thread! With my upcoming meet, I just had to test out the *pole* option. Too cool. :groovy: You give me way too much credit. I think that based on your most current swims you have officially left me in the dust. I agree that 3 is a very nice event number. 4 and 5 per day start to hurt. But, it's true in that we can surprise ourselves at times. Muppet had a great idea - there are not team records where I swim - although we do have Dixie Zone top 10 and such and Dixie Zone records which are awesome to look at.

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 Thank you for the link Fortress. I think I remember reading that thread! With my upcoming meet, I just had to test out the *pole* option. Too cool. :groovy: You give me way too much credit. I think that based on your most current swims you have officially left me in the dust. I agree that 3 is a very nice event number. 4 and 5 per day start to hurt. But, it's true in that we can surprise ourselves at times. Muppet had a great idea - there are not team records where I swim - although we do have Dixie Zone top 10 and such and Dixie Zone records which are awesome to look at.