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.
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I have always considered myself a sprinter but recently I have been really enjoying doing 200's in practice. I want to have a crack at it this year in competition. Having read through this thread though, I think my splits are way off.
Today I did a set of 5 x 200 (SCM) at 3:30, descending. On the first I went 2:29, then 2:26, 2:23, 2:20 and the last I did in 2:17. I hardly ever take my splits but today I did for the last two. I split the second last 1:08/1:12 and the last 1:06/1:11.
After reading GoodSmith's comment that you shouldn't have more than a 3 second difference between your first and second hundred I realise I have a way to go.
There is a lot of good advice in this thread about race strategy and I can't wait to put some of it into action.
My question is: what is a good training set/strategy/programme to reduce the differences in split times?
I have always considered myself a sprinter but recently I have been really enjoying doing 200's in practice. I want to have a crack at it this year in competition. Having read through this thread though, I think my splits are way off.
Today I did a set of 5 x 200 (SCM) at 3:30, descending. On the first I went 2:29, then 2:26, 2:23, 2:20 and the last I did in 2:17. I hardly ever take my splits but today I did for the last two. I split the second last 1:08/1:12 and the last 1:06/1:11.
After reading GoodSmith's comment that you shouldn't have more than a 3 second difference between your first and second hundred I realise I have a way to go.
There is a lot of good advice in this thread about race strategy and I can't wait to put some of it into action.
My question is: what is a good training set/strategy/programme to reduce the differences in split times?
