this Saturday and achieve fame, fortune, the accolades of my peers . . . and my true goal, an NQT. I need a 2:03.
50 PR is 24.79
100 PR is 55.46, split 26.55 28.91
200 PR is 2:04.24, split 30.31 31.50 31.44 30.99
I took that out too slow, but I've been gun-shy after this debacle:
2:06.86, split 29.06 30.79 33.15 33.86
I consoled myself by blaming that race on the altitude (we were at 3,000 or so and I swim at sea level), but it still hurts to look at.
I think the best 200 I ever split was SCM a year and a half ago:
2:19.90, split 33.17 35.46 35.49 35.78
I'm thinking that I need to be just under 1:00 for the 100 and bring it home from there? Can I even get to a 2:03 from my 50/100 times?
Thanks for the help.
Totally agree. You need to look for "easy speed" on that first 100. Yeah, it ain't always easy to achieve! Anyway, unless you're a great kicker and your legs never die, you might want to think about not kicking too hard on the first 100 then consciously bringing the kick on in the third 50 until the finish.
With a 55 second 100, I think you should be able to split 59, 1:02 for a 2:01 or 2:02.
I also agree.
While I do not have enough personal experience, I can share:
My daughter recently dropped from a 1:58 to a 1:54 (prelims to finals) by heeding the advice of her coach which was "do not give away your legs in the first half of the race" (a philosophy that she did not apply in prelims). She started kicking in earnest on the 6th lap and her splits were:
26.96/29.52/29.32/28.87 1:54.67
Her splits in prelims (when she overkicked in the first half):
26.63/29.60/31.14/30.69 1:58.06
The point is that you can achieve similar splits in the 1st half with moderate kicking while keeping a power boost in reserve for the 2nd half.
Totally agree. You need to look for "easy speed" on that first 100. Yeah, it ain't always easy to achieve! Anyway, unless you're a great kicker and your legs never die, you might want to think about not kicking too hard on the first 100 then consciously bringing the kick on in the third 50 until the finish.
With a 55 second 100, I think you should be able to split 59, 1:02 for a 2:01 or 2:02.
I also agree.
While I do not have enough personal experience, I can share:
My daughter recently dropped from a 1:58 to a 1:54 (prelims to finals) by heeding the advice of her coach which was "do not give away your legs in the first half of the race" (a philosophy that she did not apply in prelims). She started kicking in earnest on the 6th lap and her splits were:
26.96/29.52/29.32/28.87 1:54.67
Her splits in prelims (when she overkicked in the first half):
26.63/29.60/31.14/30.69 1:58.06
The point is that you can achieve similar splits in the 1st half with moderate kicking while keeping a power boost in reserve for the 2nd half.
