Has anyone gone into a big swim meet, a shave and taper meet without doing any meets leading up to it? Im curious as to how things turned out. I have not been at a meet since March. I was outta the water and recovering from shoulder issues all summer. I have been back at it since August and shoulders feel fine. I am thinking I should do a masters meet, there is a good one this Saturday. The shave and taper meet is a USS meet starting on Dec. 7th.
There is the OSU vs. Mich game this Saturday. Whoever planned this meet on this day was not thinking and I know, it does not have the implications it could have.
So, should I swim the meet or go into big meet with no meets? I have been doing things for time in practice and its not like I have forgotten how to swim certain events, like the 200 fly.
Torn between swimming and the Bucks,
Greg
It's an interesting choice for an Ohioan:
swim a 200 butterfly in a practice meet, the pain of which--like child birth--will probably be forgotten by the time you do your next 200 butterfly, assuming at least 9 moths has past
stay home and watch an army of highly trained wolverines feast on a pile of mushy buckeyes
I agree with Ande: go with the meet. Amongst your two options, this one seems to be the less dispiriting.
I agree with Ande: go with the meet. Amongst your two options, this one seems to be the less dispiriting.
Jim -
Ande did not say to swim a meet. Ande said to swim some practice swims as if one was in a meet. I don't think the Buckeyes would want to have one of their faithful missing after last week's loss to Illinois!
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Ok Matt,
How about you drive to Miami Univ. this weekend and we will settle this in the pool. Ohio vs Illinois :-)
I think I will do the meet since the USS meet I will be doing in Dec at the same pool.
With the scarcity of meets where I live, each meet is a shave and taper meet. I think I got to 4 meets total this year, beginning in May and the last one will be this weekend. I feel I did ok at each meet, probably got more benefit from the shave than from the week taper I did before the meet. Times improved after each meet, so that was encouraging.
:banana:
yes
I suggest you do a few meet like swims in practice
Has anyone gone into a big swim meet, a shave and taper meet without doing any meets leading up to it? Im curious as to how things turned out. I have not been at a meet since March. I was outta the water and recovering from shoulder issues all summer. I have been back at it since August and shoulders feel fine. I am thinking I should do a masters meet, there is a good one this Saturday. The shave and taper meet is a USS meet starting on Dec. 7th.
There is the OSU vs. Mich game this Saturday. Whoever planned this meet on this day was not thinking and I know, it does not have the implications it could have.
So, should I swim the meet or go into big meet with no meets? I have been doing things for time in practice and its not like I have forgotten how to swim certain events, like the 200 fly.
Torn between swimming and the Bucks,
Greg
This is beginning to sound like my family's Christmas shindig where we will have Ohio State, Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, Notre Dame, Dayton, and Villanova in the same room, along with the assorted Manhattan, Phila. Pharmacy, UMBC, Rosary College, Benedictine (IL), etc. Always a lot of trash talk after the beer and wine start flowing!
And since my wife finally got her block O a few years ago after having been one of the founders of OSU Women's Swimming, all I can say is,
GO BUCKS!!!!!
Hey Greg,
you need to go to the meet. I will be there an signed up for the 200 fly. Even though you will kick my butt, I don't want to be the only one on the blocks at the start of the race. Then after your nice long rest of waiting for me to finish you could help drag me out of the pool. :rofl:
