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?
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...Sam you must be a super fast backstroker. I tried that set today and wound up doing a 300 straight at the end.
(My 200 time at the moment is 2:05...where it used to be in the 1:55 range 20 years ago.) Hoping to get close to there again in the next few seasons...
"Super fast" is relative. The last meet I swam in, which was in 2003, I went a 1:57 for my 200 and :55 for my 100. I can go about 2:05 in practice now. I am not doing Ande's times, but I am also not training as regularly as he does. (I also don't SDK because I suck at it) I am a much better long course swimmer because it is more swimming and less turns.
Did a 400 Back for time yesterday and went 5:01 LCM. Was pretty happy with that considering it was a set of 5 X 400 on 6:00 desc 1-5.
I guess I can hold my own, but I don't know how I rank anymore.
...Sam you must be a super fast backstroker. I tried that set today and wound up doing a 300 straight at the end.
(My 200 time at the moment is 2:05...where it used to be in the 1:55 range 20 years ago.) Hoping to get close to there again in the next few seasons...
"Super fast" is relative. The last meet I swam in, which was in 2003, I went a 1:57 for my 200 and :55 for my 100. I can go about 2:05 in practice now. I am not doing Ande's times, but I am also not training as regularly as he does. (I also don't SDK because I suck at it) I am a much better long course swimmer because it is more swimming and less turns.
Did a 400 Back for time yesterday and went 5:01 LCM. Was pretty happy with that considering it was a set of 5 X 400 on 6:00 desc 1-5.
I guess I can hold my own, but I don't know how I rank anymore.
