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'd have to say I don't agree with the "pulling the first half" argument. Remember, you don't want to intentionally go slow on the first half. Rather, you want to go fast on the second half. To swim a 200 fast you can't really hold back. You really need to take it out within a few seconds of your fastest 100 time and then have the conditioning to be able to hold on.
Try doing negative splitting and build swims in practice, but remember to concentrate on swimming fast on the back half rather than holding back a little on the front half.
This certainly holds true for me, but I am willing to accept that it might not be the way for everyone to go. I have found, consistently, that if I go out hard in the first half of race, my overall time improves. It doesn't matter if it is the first 25 of a 50, the first 50 of a 100 or the first 100 of a 200. Even if my arms feel numb and I have no legs, my times are, invariably, better. Every time I think I should 'hold out' or go for 'easy speed' in the first half of the race my times disappoint.
I'd have to say I don't agree with the "pulling the first half" argument. Remember, you don't want to intentionally go slow on the first half. Rather, you want to go fast on the second half. To swim a 200 fast you can't really hold back. You really need to take it out within a few seconds of your fastest 100 time and then have the conditioning to be able to hold on.
Try doing negative splitting and build swims in practice, but remember to concentrate on swimming fast on the back half rather than holding back a little on the front half.
This certainly holds true for me, but I am willing to accept that it might not be the way for everyone to go. I have found, consistently, that if I go out hard in the first half of race, my overall time improves. It doesn't matter if it is the first 25 of a 50, the first 50 of a 100 or the first 100 of a 200. Even if my arms feel numb and I have no legs, my times are, invariably, better. Every time I think I should 'hold out' or go for 'easy speed' in the first half of the race my times disappoint.
