Hi all,
My names Matt, 34 year old from Vancouver BC. I raced/trained from 7 to 17 years old, then burnt out and quit swimming. Took up mountain biking (and proceeded to wreck my shoulders wiping out with poor form -never did learn the tuck and roll) and have been doing that since.
About a year ago, I restarted swimming as an alternate to the gym, and because the trails were snowed in. Now Im thinking about racing again, and may do so soon (my goal is to go under 2:00 in 200 free SCM).
My question is this: I have lots of pool time (UBC aquatic centre), but I most often wind up in the 25 yard diving tank for my workouts as the 25m lanes are usually an absolute gong show. If I want to race in meters, should I make every effort to train meters, or is yards OK? Is there a disadvantage going from yards to meters?
Thanks!
Matt
P.S. I gotta say, this is a great board. Lots of great workouts, advice, good attitudes. Thanks again.
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In the US, most people have very limited access to SCM pools for training, so we generally do the vast majority of our training for SCM meets in SCY pools. I generally compete in freestyle and IMs and swam a fair number of SCM meets this fall. I very often count my strokes in my longer freestyle events (200, 400, 800) even when racing to try to ensure I'm staying long. So, I did find it useful, although really only for freestyle, to do some training as the meets approached in an SCM pool in order to get my stroke count right.
Thanks! When you say you count your strokes to make sure youre staying long, does this mean that youre trying to assure that youre not spazzing out and spinning your wheels? If you train scy (and presumably have an optimal stroke count) do you have to re-calibrate in the scm pool? Is this done by doing some races for time pre-meet?
M
In the US, most people have very limited access to SCM pools for training, so we generally do the vast majority of our training for SCM meets in SCY pools. I generally compete in freestyle and IMs and swam a fair number of SCM meets this fall. I very often count my strokes in my longer freestyle events (200, 400, 800) even when racing to try to ensure I'm staying long. So, I did find it useful, although really only for freestyle, to do some training as the meets approached in an SCM pool in order to get my stroke count right.
Thanks! When you say you count your strokes to make sure youre staying long, does this mean that youre trying to assure that youre not spazzing out and spinning your wheels? If you train scy (and presumably have an optimal stroke count) do you have to re-calibrate in the scm pool? Is this done by doing some races for time pre-meet?
M
