Looking for help on estimating a time. If my 100yard breaststroke time is 1:09.4, what would you predict for a 200yard breaststroke time?
I know it depends if I'm more sprint or distance oriented, a range is fine, but I'd say I'm in the middle of the road in terms of endurnce.
I find it very helpful to swim the occasional 200 *** in practice, if for no other reason than to get more comfortable with the pain and oxygen-debt that it causes. Mostly I do 50s and 100s ***, personally I think repeat 100s are the best thing for my 200. 50s are good to practice going faster and doing full 200 race pace. But that said I try to do at least a couple full 200s a week, never more than one in a row and very rarely more than one in a workout.
Like Ande has said often, I think you really need to practice the actual event to get fast at it. There's no other way to simulate those last few turns and pullouts on the 200 which are so painful.
If you really want to get hardcore and work on oxygen-debt comfort then you can start doing flipturns and/or double pullouts when you do 50s and 100s ***. Also what I try really hard to do is follow Brendan Hansen's advice to really concentrate on technique when you're at your most exhausted. It's so easy to let your stroke fall apart at the end of a 200, in practice try to make the last 50 or 100 of your 200 be the best, long pullouts and perfect stroke. If you can't hold it together in practice you probably won't be able to in a race.
I find it very helpful to swim the occasional 200 *** in practice, if for no other reason than to get more comfortable with the pain and oxygen-debt that it causes. Mostly I do 50s and 100s ***, personally I think repeat 100s are the best thing for my 200. 50s are good to practice going faster and doing full 200 race pace. But that said I try to do at least a couple full 200s a week, never more than one in a row and very rarely more than one in a workout.
Like Ande has said often, I think you really need to practice the actual event to get fast at it. There's no other way to simulate those last few turns and pullouts on the 200 which are so painful.
If you really want to get hardcore and work on oxygen-debt comfort then you can start doing flipturns and/or double pullouts when you do 50s and 100s ***. Also what I try really hard to do is follow Brendan Hansen's advice to really concentrate on technique when you're at your most exhausted. It's so easy to let your stroke fall apart at the end of a 200, in practice try to make the last 50 or 100 of your 200 be the best, long pullouts and perfect stroke. If you can't hold it together in practice you probably won't be able to in a race.
