So I am going to do a meet in November. The first meet in 17 years. A little about me; Swam summer league for 6 years as a kid, but never did year-round training. Lifted a fair amount of weights for the past decade and a half, but mostly been a mix of fat and muscle. Current stats are: 35 years old, 5’9” (that doesn’t actually change) 250 lbs, 400 lb squat and 300 lb bench. Fairly brick shaped. Training for the past month has been anywhere from 1000 to 1600 yds, mostly 12-1400 range. Most freestyle, bit of ***, less fly, a 50 of backstroke. The quandary that I face is that I know I am going to get my clock cleaned, but I would like to get some base times for performance measurement. I have trouble increasing yardage right now, because I know I also need to put time in at speed to train that effectively as well. My gut feeling is that the next six weeks should be more about fast training to maximize ability for short swims. I am looking at the 50 fly, ***, freestyle, and maybe throw in a 100 IM for giggles. At this point and time, I have no interest in ever being a distance swimmer. I have also put some effort into the sdk, between info here and seeing it’s effectiveness in the Olympics. I do remember the backstroker in Seoul cranking with his kick. I feel like my conditioning should improve fairly rapidly with speed work simply because it is so low at this point. But I will accept suggestions. By the way, I am unaffiliated, so practicing dives at the local 24 hour fitness occurs when no one else is around.
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I swam in my first meet ever last year and am slow enough for my age group that depending on the meet, I sometimes race with people who are old enough to be my parents. I swim to beat my last time, not grandpa the next lane over (which is good, because grandpa might well kick my behind).
Most people I've met at meets have been very nice. I've rarely been asked what my time was, only "How was your swim?" or "How'd you do?"
Go. Have fun and get some times to work against.
(You might want to post which meet you're going to in the event that someone here might be going too. It never hurts to have a buddy.)
I swam in my first meet ever last year and am slow enough for my age group that depending on the meet, I sometimes race with people who are old enough to be my parents. I swim to beat my last time, not grandpa the next lane over (which is good, because grandpa might well kick my behind).
Most people I've met at meets have been very nice. I've rarely been asked what my time was, only "How was your swim?" or "How'd you do?"
Go. Have fun and get some times to work against.
(You might want to post which meet you're going to in the event that someone here might be going too. It never hurts to have a buddy.)
