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.
When I raced the Marathon circuit it was every weekend from the 1st week in July until 2nd or third week in September. We would also race a couple of times in the same week. Sure it was hard but that is how I made my money. I would take 2 days off after a race. Now do we call that a taper???
George, you bring up an interesting point.
I've discussed with a lot of friends and coaches how unbelievebly fast many of the college and USA/foreign swimmers are going during an entire season (college and world cup for example)...usually with a minimal amount of time drop for the final meet of the season....pretty foriegn concept to most masters swimmers (the exception being Karlyn & dennis Baker perhaps).
Since most masters swimmers train in what I would call the "old school" training mindset...beat the crap our of yourself for 2-6 months then full on taper for one big meet...few people are comfortable with 1, 2 or 3 high quality rested meets in a short period of time.
When I raced the Marathon circuit it was every weekend from the 1st week in July until 2nd or third week in September. We would also race a couple of times in the same week. Sure it was hard but that is how I made my money. I would take 2 days off after a race. Now do we call that a taper???
George, you bring up an interesting point.
I've discussed with a lot of friends and coaches how unbelievebly fast many of the college and USA/foreign swimmers are going during an entire season (college and world cup for example)...usually with a minimal amount of time drop for the final meet of the season....pretty foriegn concept to most masters swimmers (the exception being Karlyn & dennis Baker perhaps).
Since most masters swimmers train in what I would call the "old school" training mindset...beat the crap our of yourself for 2-6 months then full on taper for one big meet...few people are comfortable with 1, 2 or 3 high quality rested meets in a short period of time.
