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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I don't believe that anyone here is advocating muscling through a race. What people here have said is swimmers who do muscle their way through a 50 (with times that are far from top 10) will exhibit larger drop offs in the 100 and 200 races than swimmers who have excellent technique.
There is a big difference between observing that a swimmer may be muscling through the 50 as a hypothesis for why a swimmer has a big drop off and advocating muscling through the 50, right? In fact, in making this observation we are advocating for working on better technique.
I don't believe that anyone here is advocating muscling through a race. What people here have said is swimmers who do muscle their way through a 50 (with times that are far from top 10) will exhibit larger drop offs in the 100 and 200 races than swimmers who have excellent technique.
There is a big difference between observing that a swimmer may be muscling through the 50 as a hypothesis for why a swimmer has a big drop off and advocating muscling through the 50, right? In fact, in making this observation we are advocating for working on better technique.
