I'm kinda nervous I am swimming my first meet in 7 years tomorrow. I'm 26, swam from when I was 9 to end of high school, sparingly since. My last meet was freshman year of college (intramural meet). I am swimming 50y and 100y free. I used to swim about 25 secs on the 50 and 55 secs on the 100. I'm hoping to beat those times. Who knows though...I'm 30 pounds heavier (mostly muscle) from weightlifting, changed my stroke completely to total immersion style a month ago, but have not had a chance to practice much (only 1-2x per week the last 6 weeks or so not doing much yardage). I'll let you know how I do :)
Congrats on returning to the water after 7yrs. I had a 10 yr break and after 2 yrs back in the water, the only event that I am anywhere near close to my best times is backstroke, only because I didn't compete in backstroke the last 3 yrs.
Goal is to get the differential to approximately 2 seconds
sorry to hijack the thread, but do you try for the same 2 sec with SCY and SCM?
I swam the 100 SCM free 28,92/1:00.94 (in the same meet I swam 27.68 50m free). I swam 9 events in one day, so I'm sure I can swim the second 50 faster with more rest.
My short term goals for freestyle is to get under 1:00 before all the 14-18yr olds on my team do it. there are only 4 under 1:00 on the team. 53.93, 54.80, 58.86 and 59.73. then the rest are 1:00.17, 1:01, and over 1:02. None of them want to lose to a 34 yr old. I have never been under 27.0 in meters. so that is my second goal. never really trained for freestyle until I started training for distance free.
my plan for the next meet is to swim the 100 28.0 / 31.9 but maybe I should shoot for 28.5/31.4. I only have 2 more chances at the 100 this year, once in 4 weeks and then again in Dec.
Congrats on returning to the water after 7yrs. I had a 10 yr break and after 2 yrs back in the water, the only event that I am anywhere near close to my best times is backstroke, only because I didn't compete in backstroke the last 3 yrs.
Goal is to get the differential to approximately 2 seconds
sorry to hijack the thread, but do you try for the same 2 sec with SCY and SCM?
I swam the 100 SCM free 28,92/1:00.94 (in the same meet I swam 27.68 50m free). I swam 9 events in one day, so I'm sure I can swim the second 50 faster with more rest.
My short term goals for freestyle is to get under 1:00 before all the 14-18yr olds on my team do it. there are only 4 under 1:00 on the team. 53.93, 54.80, 58.86 and 59.73. then the rest are 1:00.17, 1:01, and over 1:02. None of them want to lose to a 34 yr old. I have never been under 27.0 in meters. so that is my second goal. never really trained for freestyle until I started training for distance free.
my plan for the next meet is to swim the 100 28.0 / 31.9 but maybe I should shoot for 28.5/31.4. I only have 2 more chances at the 100 this year, once in 4 weeks and then again in Dec.
