On another thread, there was a reference to having a "focus event." I was wondering how many of us have focus events and what they are. Is it a good thing to have a focus event to help direct your training?
I have an event that always seems to be my "best" event (50 back), but I wouldn't say I focus on it exclusively at all. More apt to focus on sprinting in general.
Thoughts?
My Favorite stroke is Breaststroke of course....now having said that
I like the 50 the best BUT the 200 is probably the focus event. I also focus on the 1000/1650. I am branching out and trying to improve the 400 IM. SO in order of focus
the 1650/1000 is first followed by the 200 ***. The a DISTANT 3rd is the 400IM....:drown: which I am sure is something that I will be focusing on for awhile.
I'd be focusing on 200 IM if my knee were healthy. As it is, I can't do evilstroke, so it'd have to be 200 back. Maybe 200 free so I can work on my demons.
50, 100, 200 Free and 50, 100 Fly. Perhaps a crack at the 400 Free as well. As I do more distance I feel more confident in the longer events even though, at heart, I am a sprinter. Perhaps that is changing though.
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400 IM and 200 bk. Swam lots more backstroke last year with great results. 1.5 sec drop in the 50, 3 secs in the 100 and 6 secs in the 200 at SCY nationals. That was after a LOT of backstroke sets including LT backstroke sets. This year my coach said something about a distance free event so I think I see a lot of 800 free sets in my future!
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Hmm.... I think a sub 1:00 free is a perfectly reasonable goal for Stud. He's got his flip turns, streamlines and SDKs down. Just has to do a bit more speed work and not screw around with evilstroke all the time.
Poolraat: No 100 free? You're going to be a stroker after all that freestyle all summer long? Maybe you got bored?
Poolraat: No 100 free? You're going to be a stroker after all that freestyle all summer long? Maybe you got bored?
I'll continue to work on free. Still want to do another sub 1:00. But the main focus will be on the other two. And I'm sure that the additional work on back and fly will help the free.
