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.
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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?
My first meet back was a SCM meet, so I didn't even know what my times meant. I had no expectations going into the meet, I knew I would set PB in some events because I had never swam them SCM before. They all were horrible times after I looked at the conversions, but lots of PBs.
I had been swimming 3x/week at less than 4k/workout for about 3 months with no racing at all. The 3 months before that were a mix of infrequent workouts, injuries and building my base. The 3 years before that was work full time, go to school full time, too little sleep, too much drinking and poor eating with no working out at all.
My first meet was a local meet that is held yearly and I wanted to swim events that I planned on continuing to swim in the future. I came out of that meet with a handful of times that I will look back on when I swim the meet again.
A lot of people on this board taking racing seriously. Most people at the meet, at least outwardly, are not taking the racing very seriously and are there to have fun.
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?
My first meet back was a SCM meet, so I didn't even know what my times meant. I had no expectations going into the meet, I knew I would set PB in some events because I had never swam them SCM before. They all were horrible times after I looked at the conversions, but lots of PBs.
I had been swimming 3x/week at less than 4k/workout for about 3 months with no racing at all. The 3 months before that were a mix of infrequent workouts, injuries and building my base. The 3 years before that was work full time, go to school full time, too little sleep, too much drinking and poor eating with no working out at all.
My first meet was a local meet that is held yearly and I wanted to swim events that I planned on continuing to swim in the future. I came out of that meet with a handful of times that I will look back on when I swim the meet again.
A lot of people on this board taking racing seriously. Most people at the meet, at least outwardly, are not taking the racing very seriously and are there to have fun.
