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.
Well the results are in, and I came up a little short. 2:04.00.
When I left the pool, the splits weren't yet posted, but I could see the clock and led the heat, so my splits were displayed briefly. I went out very strong, and thought I saw a 28.6 or so. I thought I saw a 59 low at the 100, which is about what I had intended to do. The third fifty hurt, and Goodsmith will be pleased to hear that I felt like puking about three strokes before the 150 turn. The last 50 was a little sloppy and ugly.
I drove an hour and a half through a snowstorm to get there, and there were a lot of no-shows. My heat had only 2 of us -- me in Lane 6 on the wall and another guy in Lane 1 by the other wall. We probably should have asked for a re-seed. He went a 6:24 or so, so I swam it alone. I would have liked to have someone to pace off of. I had a nice 500 later with an evenly matched opponent, and it really helps.
I was wiped out afterward, and felt like I had given it everything I had. I was about a half second off my best 50 free time in my next event, and a second plus off my 100 time at the end of the day, so I felt pretty good about PR'ing the 200 in a swim-through meet. My previous PR was rested and tapered at Nationals.
I think I can hold that first 50/100 time with more experience, and just need to work harder on practicing swimming that hard for 8 lengths.
Thank you again for all the comments, I had lots of them playing in my head on the drive and during the race.
Well the results are in, and I came up a little short. 2:04.00.
When I left the pool, the splits weren't yet posted, but I could see the clock and led the heat, so my splits were displayed briefly. I went out very strong, and thought I saw a 28.6 or so. I thought I saw a 59 low at the 100, which is about what I had intended to do. The third fifty hurt, and Goodsmith will be pleased to hear that I felt like puking about three strokes before the 150 turn. The last 50 was a little sloppy and ugly.
I drove an hour and a half through a snowstorm to get there, and there were a lot of no-shows. My heat had only 2 of us -- me in Lane 6 on the wall and another guy in Lane 1 by the other wall. We probably should have asked for a re-seed. He went a 6:24 or so, so I swam it alone. I would have liked to have someone to pace off of. I had a nice 500 later with an evenly matched opponent, and it really helps.
I was wiped out afterward, and felt like I had given it everything I had. I was about a half second off my best 50 free time in my next event, and a second plus off my 100 time at the end of the day, so I felt pretty good about PR'ing the 200 in a swim-through meet. My previous PR was rested and tapered at Nationals.
I think I can hold that first 50/100 time with more experience, and just need to work harder on practicing swimming that hard for 8 lengths.
Thank you again for all the comments, I had lots of them playing in my head on the drive and during the race.
