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.
My two best 200s were essentially the same time, 155.+
One time I swam it 55 out; 1:00 back.
The other time I swam it 57 out: 58 back.
The second strategy actually gave me a better time by a few tenths, and it was much easier to do in terms of lactic-related pain.
On the other hand, it is easy to screw up and go too slow on the first 100 and not be able to make it up, even with a very fast second 100.
In terms of the quest for "easy speed," I have sometimes found that just telling myself to stay a little smooth and relax on the first half makes a big difference. You're probably going almost the same as you would be otherwise, but there's something about the word relax that just keeps the muscles loose.
If you can do a lot of little meets, you can experiment with the different strategies. If you can only do one big meet, your times strike me as slightly better sprinting than distance, which suggests faster dying, which suggests that maybe you'd have better luck not killing yourself by going too fast on the first 100.
Then again, my natural sprinter friends often try to go out fast and hold on. So what do I know?
Good luck! The worst that can happen is A) a bad time, B) pain. Both will be forgotten in minutes to months, depending on your nature.
My two best 200s were essentially the same time, 155.+
One time I swam it 55 out; 1:00 back.
The other time I swam it 57 out: 58 back.
The second strategy actually gave me a better time by a few tenths, and it was much easier to do in terms of lactic-related pain.
On the other hand, it is easy to screw up and go too slow on the first 100 and not be able to make it up, even with a very fast second 100.
In terms of the quest for "easy speed," I have sometimes found that just telling myself to stay a little smooth and relax on the first half makes a big difference. You're probably going almost the same as you would be otherwise, but there's something about the word relax that just keeps the muscles loose.
If you can do a lot of little meets, you can experiment with the different strategies. If you can only do one big meet, your times strike me as slightly better sprinting than distance, which suggests faster dying, which suggests that maybe you'd have better luck not killing yourself by going too fast on the first 100.
Then again, my natural sprinter friends often try to go out fast and hold on. So what do I know?
Good luck! The worst that can happen is A) a bad time, B) pain. Both will be forgotten in minutes to months, depending on your nature.
