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 am by no means an expert, but I have been swimming repeat 200's at practice by treating the first 100 as a pull (both with and without a pull buoy). The second 100, I kick fairly vigorously. My practice times have been coming down without increasing fatigue. I am going to continue this practice over the long haul. I hope to test it out within a month at a meet to see if I can lower my times.
I will also follow the same race strategy (only kicking in earnest for the last 75-100 yards).
That is exactly how I practice as well...pull the first half of the distance (25 in a 50, 50 in a 100, 100 in a 200, etc) then pick it up the second half. I have never been able to really execute that in a meet though because on one hand I don't like going out too fast with the pack, but I also don't like being behind the pack...I know I have the finishing power...but...i always screw it up anyways and go out too hard my first 100 or whatever.
For example in my 500 at metros, in the evening i went out 2 seconds slower in my first 100 then I had in prelims and my coach and parents were like :confused::censor:..thinking i was dead and out of the contention for a good place/time. Ended up going 4 seconds faster then my morning time.
I am by no means an expert, but I have been swimming repeat 200's at practice by treating the first 100 as a pull (both with and without a pull buoy). The second 100, I kick fairly vigorously. My practice times have been coming down without increasing fatigue. I am going to continue this practice over the long haul. I hope to test it out within a month at a meet to see if I can lower my times.
I will also follow the same race strategy (only kicking in earnest for the last 75-100 yards).
That is exactly how I practice as well...pull the first half of the distance (25 in a 50, 50 in a 100, 100 in a 200, etc) then pick it up the second half. I have never been able to really execute that in a meet though because on one hand I don't like going out too fast with the pack, but I also don't like being behind the pack...I know I have the finishing power...but...i always screw it up anyways and go out too hard my first 100 or whatever.
For example in my 500 at metros, in the evening i went out 2 seconds slower in my first 100 then I had in prelims and my coach and parents were like :confused::censor:..thinking i was dead and out of the contention for a good place/time. Ended up going 4 seconds faster then my morning time.
