50 BR
39.92
100BR
45.22 1:33.22 (48.00)
200 BR
45.46 1:37.60 (52.14)
2:32.09 (54.49) 3:28.12 (56.03)
Hi All
Here are my LCM time from zones.
My 50 was a PB.
The 100 was first recorded time LCM, and the 200 was 7 secs faster than my last attempt.
Obvioulsy tecnique is very important, but looking at my drop off on the 200, what do you think is going on. I was told my stroke looked good on the 200.
Is my conditioning bad? Should I practice more broken 2's 3x50 mod 1x AFASP a few times thru etc? I did this for SCY Zones and went from 3:07 in January to a 2:56 by April--not a bad return IMHO.
Am I just a sprinter (albeit not that a fast of a sprinter) and will I not have much more joy in reducing my longer swim times?
I only get 3x a week in the pool and someone told me swimming 5-6 times would get my times down...I can't devote that much time.
Lastly I just bought paddles to find the slipping point in my BR pull and was happy to find only my left hand slipped a little on the insweep and only at a high pace--but not everytime.
I'm still working on not "blocking out" in the water by recovering my legs before my arms have shot into streamline. Anyone have drills for this? Peter C said to work on building up speed which I am doing.
Just looking for more input and ideas. I know LCM is a hard beast compared to SCY so swimming a PB on the 50 is encouraging.
Thanks
Rich
great advice Jeff,
I think you could swim a very fast 200, especially short course.
The single dolphin kick on the underwater pullout makes swimmers stay under a little longer, which means longer breath holding off each wall
Swimmers need to be real relaxed and in control on that first 100
so they can swim a strong 2nd 100,
I think Hansen split his 200 1:01 1:07 (a 5 or 6 second fade)
Shanteau split it 1:02.88 1:07.77 (4.89 diff)
Shanteau only went 1:01.50 in the 100
so his 400 IM & 200 IM training really help his 200 ***.
I swam the 200 *** once in college
I think I went 2:11 split it 1:00 1:11 which is not the way to do it
Ande
The best analysis about the 200 *** is: DON'T DO IT!
But if you really feel like you can't stay away from that ghastly event, you definitely need to improve your conditioning by training more. You can't hide behind anything on a 200 ***. You can barely use talent for a 100 ***, especially long course.
Do a great deal of race pace work. Your body needs to get adjusted to the splits you want to do.
great advice Jeff,
I think you could swim a very fast 200, especially short course.
The single dolphin kick on the underwater pullout makes swimmers stay under a little longer, which means longer breath holding off each wall
Swimmers need to be real relaxed and in control on that first 100
so they can swim a strong 2nd 100,
I think Hansen split his 200 1:01 1:07 (a 5 or 6 second fade)
Shanteau split it 1:02.88 1:07.77 (4.89 diff)
Shanteau only went 1:01.50 in the 100
so his 400 IM & 200 IM training really help his 200 ***.
I swam the 200 *** once in college
I think I went 2:11 split it 1:00 1:11 which is not the way to do it
Ande
The best analysis about the 200 *** is: DON'T DO IT!
But if you really feel like you can't stay away from that ghastly event, you definitely need to improve your conditioning by training more. You can't hide behind anything on a 200 ***. You can barely use talent for a 100 ***, especially long course.
Do a great deal of race pace work. Your body needs to get adjusted to the splits you want to do.
