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.
if a 200 is a distance event to you, i can understand why breathing every two would make sense. to me, the 200 is a sprint. and to me, if you're sprinting, even over 200 y/m, you're supposed to keep your head in the water as much as you can. I'm not saying 1 breath per length for the full 200 - that is excessive. But 8 breaths per length is excessive too.
phelps and thorpe are the best in the world at what they do/did. how they do what they do is a bit unconventional. when we get to that level, we can do whatever we want too.
if a 200 is a distance event to you, i can understand why breathing every two would make sense. to me, the 200 is a sprint. and to me, if you're sprinting, even over 200 y/m, you're supposed to keep your head in the water as much as you can. I'm not saying 1 breath per length for the full 200 - that is excessive. But 8 breaths per length is excessive too.
phelps and thorpe are the best in the world at what they do/did. how they do what they do is a bit unconventional. when we get to that level, we can do whatever we want too.
