OK,
Here is my swimming career in a nutshell. I have started to level off, so I think getting under a minute is going to be hard.
date 50 free 100 free 200 free 500 free
4/2/2006 30.28 1:10.24
4/30/2006 28.70 1:08.76 2:56.98
1/21/2007 26.86 1:04.00 2:31.39
3/11/2007 26.83 1:03.22 2:33.18
4/28/2007 26.85 1:01.75 7:40.29
11/4/2007 27.16 1:03.98 2:35.99
2/9/2008 1:02.52 2:29.15 7:09.21
4/5/2008 26.60 1:01.04 6:49.16
without seeing your splits, we can't tell if you're a take it out and die person or a take it out too cautiously person. I'd say, pick an in-season meet, swim both the 50 and 100 and take the 100 out like you're swimming a 50 (but breathe more!!!) and then see what happens. tell yourself that your goal is to get within 1.0 sec of your 50 time for your split and that it doesn't matter what happens to your overall time. odds are, you will die impressively, but you'll have a decent time and you'll then know what that kind of 100 death-pain feels like. work on your at-speed turns in practice too. if you're missing the pad, sounds like something is going on with your turn that is costing you time.
you have plenty of speed to break that barrier!
without seeing your splits, we can't tell if you're a take it out and die person or a take it out too cautiously person. I'd say, pick an in-season meet, swim both the 50 and 100 and take the 100 out like you're swimming a 50 (but breathe more!!!) and then see what happens. tell yourself that your goal is to get within 1.0 sec of your 50 time for your split and that it doesn't matter what happens to your overall time. odds are, you will die impressively, but you'll have a decent time and you'll then know what that kind of 100 death-pain feels like. work on your at-speed turns in practice too. if you're missing the pad, sounds like something is going on with your turn that is costing you time.
you have plenty of speed to break that barrier!
