Did my first 200m IM.
What can be concluded by the splits?
36.74
49.72
57.57
42.83
3:06.86
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At Short Course Nationals in Austin, only 1 swimmer in the top 10 finishers of 45-49 had fly=free (Al Jaeger). I don't know Al Jaeger but based on his other swims at Nationals he appears to not be a flyer so his fly=free seems an anomaly.
The winner was +3.5 sec from fly to free. Just eyeballing the times it looks like the average was +4sec from fly to free.
So either 9 out of 10 swam the race badly or the goal of fly=free is not realistic.
My high school son swam a 1:55.4 200 IM and his splits were:
24.8
30.1
32.7
27.8
He is not a backstroker. He probably took fly out a bit too fast because he faded a bit on his freestyle. He swam the *** very aggressive.
Edit - I see Mr. Jaegers posted above!
At Short Course Nationals in Austin, only 1 swimmer in the top 10 finishers of 45-49 had fly=free (Al Jaeger). I don't know Al Jaeger but based on his other swims at Nationals he appears to not be a flyer so his fly=free seems an anomaly.
The winner was +3.5 sec from fly to free. Just eyeballing the times it looks like the average was +4sec from fly to free.
So either 9 out of 10 swam the race badly or the goal of fly=free is not realistic.
My high school son swam a 1:55.4 200 IM and his splits were:
24.8
30.1
32.7
27.8
He is not a backstroker. He probably took fly out a bit too fast because he faded a bit on his freestyle. He swam the *** very aggressive.
Edit - I see Mr. Jaegers posted above!
