Well,
I seemed to have stumbled in swimming faster.
A year later, I have not been able to lower my time in the 100 free. I went 63, about a second slower.
I lowered the 200 free from 2:32 to 2:29 and I lowered the 500 free from 7:40 to 7:09.
I improved my endurance but not speed. I got some good feedback on my catch, so I have something to work on.
Overall I am not too happy for almost a years worth of work, but I will forge on.
I'm assuming you've just swum these all in a meet recently. There are a lot of variables that could have caused you to be a bit disappointed with your 100 - i'm thinking event placement, if you had a huge bellyflopper next to you, pool depth, your mental preparedness, loose muscles, bad start, a bad turn etc.
But bear in mind that the 1 2 and 500 frees are three completely different races. It is a lot harder to drop time in the shorter events (just ask paul wolf about his 50 free or 50 fly), as there is less time and distance to recover from a mishap.
But it is about training too. Judging by your time drops (nice job with that, by the way!!!), looks like you have indeed done wonders for your endurance in the last year. But if you're looking towards the 100, you've got to do some speed work too. As a distance swimmer, I know it is tough to balance them both out. Next time you've got an option, pick the sprint workout and work on your turnover and fast turns.
Something I like to think about my (or any distance swimmer's) ability to do a good 100: we distance folks can get a hard pace and hold it over a longer period of time, and that translates to a 100 when the swimmer can pick a hard pace and use his/her endurance to swim through the pain and hold on to that pace for the full 100.
I'm assuming you've just swum these all in a meet recently. There are a lot of variables that could have caused you to be a bit disappointed with your 100 - i'm thinking event placement, if you had a huge bellyflopper next to you, pool depth, your mental preparedness, loose muscles, bad start, a bad turn etc.
But bear in mind that the 1 2 and 500 frees are three completely different races. It is a lot harder to drop time in the shorter events (just ask paul wolf about his 50 free or 50 fly), as there is less time and distance to recover from a mishap.
But it is about training too. Judging by your time drops (nice job with that, by the way!!!), looks like you have indeed done wonders for your endurance in the last year. But if you're looking towards the 100, you've got to do some speed work too. As a distance swimmer, I know it is tough to balance them both out. Next time you've got an option, pick the sprint workout and work on your turnover and fast turns.
Something I like to think about my (or any distance swimmer's) ability to do a good 100: we distance folks can get a hard pace and hold it over a longer period of time, and that translates to a 100 when the swimmer can pick a hard pace and use his/her endurance to swim through the pain and hold on to that pace for the full 100.
