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.
I had never even swam SCM until I entered master's a while back. To me it is a very wierd distance, and a bit hard to get paces down because I either think in SCY or LCM.
The gym I swim in has a 6 lane 50 m pool, but a few evenings per week they switch over (move bulkhead) to the pool is sectioned in half - thus 25 m. My last really competitive swimming was done in high school - 25 yards. I did swim some LCM on the club team, but not too much. Hard to gauge exactly what good splits are until you spend a good amount of time at that particular length.
I would reiterate what was stated earlier - for a race, if you have trained well, you should have the additional endurance to compensate for the extra swim length. Train hard - l like the idea of a 125 or 225 to simulate the total length you will actually swim - and you will be fine!
I had never even swam SCM until I entered master's a while back. To me it is a very wierd distance, and a bit hard to get paces down because I either think in SCY or LCM.
The gym I swim in has a 6 lane 50 m pool, but a few evenings per week they switch over (move bulkhead) to the pool is sectioned in half - thus 25 m. My last really competitive swimming was done in high school - 25 yards. I did swim some LCM on the club team, but not too much. Hard to gauge exactly what good splits are until you spend a good amount of time at that particular length.
I would reiterate what was stated earlier - for a race, if you have trained well, you should have the additional endurance to compensate for the extra swim length. Train hard - l like the idea of a 125 or 225 to simulate the total length you will actually swim - and you will be fine!
