I'm interested to know what kind of workouts people are doing who are preparing for 200 back, long or short course. I'm interested primarily because I'm pretty much incapable of approaching the distances and volume that Ande has been doing recently.
What are the rest of you doing? Are you gunning for a top 10 time, a National Qualifying Time, a PB, or are you just trying to stave off a precipitous decline in speed? What is the longest interval you'll do with any frequency? Do you ever get up to the 800's that Ande is posting?
Skip, you are reading that correctly.
We were testing our ability to sprint - in the beginning, over a long period of time; and at the end, over a short distance. It also gave us a feel for how well we were progressing throughout the spring.
Ideally, come taper time, we were to be going slightly faster than this for 100s, and for the super ideal, holding this same speed for 200s.
For Mollie, this worked out great, as her 2:11 (31,33,33,33 splits) work out to about the :49 range she was holding in this set.
I finished up right about :42 (free) - which is a 1:52; and I was at 1:53 in the 200 free at nationals.
Skip, you are reading that correctly.
We were testing our ability to sprint - in the beginning, over a long period of time; and at the end, over a short distance. It also gave us a feel for how well we were progressing throughout the spring.
Ideally, come taper time, we were to be going slightly faster than this for 100s, and for the super ideal, holding this same speed for 200s.
For Mollie, this worked out great, as her 2:11 (31,33,33,33 splits) work out to about the :49 range she was holding in this set.
I finished up right about :42 (free) - which is a 1:52; and I was at 1:53 in the 200 free at nationals.
