Anyone have experience swimming in meets on consecutive weekends? I've never done this myself, but am contemplating doing meets April 24-25 (Zones, SCY) and May 3 (SCM). Was planning to rest a week or so for Zones and then just keep resting. My main worry is that I'm usually pretty zonked for a few days after a two day meet. Is this a bad idea? Any advice?
My main motivation to go to the second meet is that I'm not sure I'll get another SCM meet in this year. There are no local meets, and right now I have family conflicts with travel meets.
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I do back-to-back meets quite a bit. Most recently swam the Albatross just 6 days after a local SCY meet. LCM zones always seems to be on the weekend after LCM nationals, so I've done that back-to-back as well.
If you're doing a full taper for zones, then I would suggest doing just what Allen says. Short, warm-up/cool down swims during the week with just a bit of speed work. You'll still be riding your taper at the next meet.
Keep up your feel for the water and don't overload yourself at the SCM meet.
I do back-to-back meets quite a bit. Most recently swam the Albatross just 6 days after a local SCY meet. LCM zones always seems to be on the weekend after LCM nationals, so I've done that back-to-back as well.
If you're doing a full taper for zones, then I would suggest doing just what Allen says. Short, warm-up/cool down swims during the week with just a bit of speed work. You'll still be riding your taper at the next meet.
Keep up your feel for the water and don't overload yourself at the SCM meet.
