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?!
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I think I am kind of the opposite of most people so far in that when it's Zones or a meet where I know my coach wants our team to do well, I try to swim the max number of events allowed so I can contribute a lot of points to the team. There is something strangely satisfying about gutting out the 800 free relay at the end after swimming 7 or 8 individual events and 2 or 3 relays over 3 days when you're whole relay team is all dead together. But at small meets where we aren't trying to win anything, I sometimes swim just 2 events a day so I can have them be my very best effort. I have only been to one Nationals and Worlds, but there I did only my three best things because our relatively small team wasn't trying to get a super high placing.
Today at our meet we were all sorta tired, but it was great fun to do the 200 Medley and the 400 Free relays - we got 2nd and 1st respectively. One of the gals on my relay ran a 5K competition and then went to the swim meet!! Amazing. :bow: Interestingly, I felt sort of ill after my first three events, but then swam the two relays and felt way better and more energized. So true what you said about relays! 800 relay - that would be a no for us. Actually, our meet didn't even have that option. Thank goodness!
I think I am kind of the opposite of most people so far in that when it's Zones or a meet where I know my coach wants our team to do well, I try to swim the max number of events allowed so I can contribute a lot of points to the team. There is something strangely satisfying about gutting out the 800 free relay at the end after swimming 7 or 8 individual events and 2 or 3 relays over 3 days when you're whole relay team is all dead together. But at small meets where we aren't trying to win anything, I sometimes swim just 2 events a day so I can have them be my very best effort. I have only been to one Nationals and Worlds, but there I did only my three best things because our relatively small team wasn't trying to get a super high placing.
Today at our meet we were all sorta tired, but it was great fun to do the 200 Medley and the 400 Free relays - we got 2nd and 1st respectively. One of the gals on my relay ran a 5K competition and then went to the swim meet!! Amazing. :bow: Interestingly, I felt sort of ill after my first three events, but then swam the two relays and felt way better and more energized. So true what you said about relays! 800 relay - that would be a no for us. Actually, our meet didn't even have that option. Thank goodness!
