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.
Parents
Former Member
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).
I wanted to say thanks for this post Brad. I swam the 200 free scy last Saturday and tried what you said. My previous best was 2:03.60. By saving my legs for the second half (and a lot of practice leading up to the meet) I was able to drop more than 3.5 seconds, going 2:00.02.
It was bittersweet. I was extremely happy at the big improvement, but really wanted to break two minutes. But as a friend of mine said, those hundredths of a second will keep me humble and make me work out that much harder.
Steve Cox
Long Island, NY
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).
I wanted to say thanks for this post Brad. I swam the 200 free scy last Saturday and tried what you said. My previous best was 2:03.60. By saving my legs for the second half (and a lot of practice leading up to the meet) I was able to drop more than 3.5 seconds, going 2:00.02.
It was bittersweet. I was extremely happy at the big improvement, but really wanted to break two minutes. But as a friend of mine said, those hundredths of a second will keep me humble and make me work out that much harder.
Steve Cox
Long Island, NY
