How many of you have gone to a meet, without a lot of proper prep for the meet? Maybe it was a lack of training time, less than focused training for any meet, maybe you have been swimming a lot but no real speed or race specific training during your practice?
What were your expectations going in? Did you worry too much about times or just go to do some racing and swim the best that you can?
I am thinking of FINALLY doing some meets. Found a low key one in a few weeks. I swim 4500-5000 about 5-6x a week. The practices are mix of aerobic swims, a lot of drill work to fix some flaws on my free/back and high intensity kick sets. Not done a lot/any speed work in months but I figure if I don't suck it up soon and just start racing, it may not happen for a long time to come.
Any feedback would be great.
I'll be racing on sunday, 100br and 400 IM in the morning and 50 of each stroke in the afternoon.
originally i was hoping to go from 5:19 to under 5:10 in the IM, but my entire family got the FLU so for the last 15 days I have only praticed once. so i have changed my expectations from best times to just making the day a fun day to race, and test different things.
my main meet of the spring is at the end of March, so I have 6 weeks to get back what I lost these past two weeks.
I'll be racing on sunday, 100br and 400 IM in the morning and 50 of each stroke in the afternoon.
originally i was hoping to go from 5:19 to under 5:10 in the IM, but my entire family got the FLU so for the last 15 days I have only praticed once. so i have changed my expectations from best times to just making the day a fun day to race, and test different things.
my main meet of the spring is at the end of March, so I have 6 weeks to get back what I lost these past two weeks.
