Ok, here's my background. I'm, training for USMS NATS in Washignton. Training has been going well and I've been pleased with my meet performances thus far. However, I just swam a meet yesterday as my last meet before I taper for nats. Well, to ensure a good meet I rested two days prior, something I never do going into a meet. At the meet I swam a half a second slower in all my 50's and a full second slower in my 100 fly based on all previous meets. I actually swam A 100 fly in practice last week that was much faster then my race at this meet.
I don't understand, I should have swum faster then other meets this year because I rested going into it. Other meets I swam a hard workout the night before. Could anyone please share any insight into this phenomenon. I have now suffered a huge blow to my confidence going into nationals.
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I had a similar experience this year leading up to my taper (started yesterday). I live and train at 9000 feet and compete in Denver at 5280. A week after our state meet in Denver I flew to Santa Clarita to swim, where I should have gotten 3-5% improvement. Instead, all my times were routinely 2 seconds slower than the week before in Denver. In a 50, for crying out loud?
As Jeff said, this has happened before and, although it was very disturbing, I trust my training. I believe good things will happen in Seattle!
I had a similar experience this year leading up to my taper (started yesterday). I live and train at 9000 feet and compete in Denver at 5280. A week after our state meet in Denver I flew to Santa Clarita to swim, where I should have gotten 3-5% improvement. Instead, all my times were routinely 2 seconds slower than the week before in Denver. In a 50, for crying out loud?
As Jeff said, this has happened before and, although it was very disturbing, I trust my training. I believe good things will happen in Seattle!
