200 Challenge: Goal time, roadmap and status updates
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This thread is for people to post their goals for the 200 (in any stroke), outline how they plan to get there, progress updates and to get feed back on their plans and updates.
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Glad GDavis brought this thread back to life.
My ultimate goal stands at 1:49.99 in March, but I have a short term goal and a new training approach.
Goal: 1:58.09scy (USAS A standard)
Date: Oct 16, 2009
Training: More sprint training, faster pace on the long stuff. On the endurance stuff my goal is to hold 1:12 or better, on the fast stuff I need to be breaking 1:00 and a one off max effort needs to be :55. I am not there yet.
M,W,F: Team workouts, but I have the lane space to follow the workout, but completely rewrite the effort levels to meet my goals. For example, 10x100, descend 1-3 was actually done as ez back, smooth free, fast free. Adequate lane space is great.
Tuesday: Solo? Don't have a game plan for this day yet. I will probably do endurance for 3 weeks, sprint for 2 weeks then drill the week before the meet.
Saturday: Short Sprints. My solo practices are SCM, so I want to get in a half dozen or more 25 yard max effort sprints, trying to hit 13.
Sunday: Day of Recovery. More endurance work initially transitioning to true recovery day focusing on drills.
Last year during my hardest training, I was probably doing 20-25k. This next six weeks I am going to see what only ~15k does.
I will rest 3 days for the meet. The meet is a 3 day meet, and if they keep the same order of events, I will swim the 200 on day 3, but I will only be swimming 1 event per day.
Glad GDavis brought this thread back to life.
My ultimate goal stands at 1:49.99 in March, but I have a short term goal and a new training approach.
Goal: 1:58.09scy (USAS A standard)
Date: Oct 16, 2009
Training: More sprint training, faster pace on the long stuff. On the endurance stuff my goal is to hold 1:12 or better, on the fast stuff I need to be breaking 1:00 and a one off max effort needs to be :55. I am not there yet.
M,W,F: Team workouts, but I have the lane space to follow the workout, but completely rewrite the effort levels to meet my goals. For example, 10x100, descend 1-3 was actually done as ez back, smooth free, fast free. Adequate lane space is great.
Tuesday: Solo? Don't have a game plan for this day yet. I will probably do endurance for 3 weeks, sprint for 2 weeks then drill the week before the meet.
Saturday: Short Sprints. My solo practices are SCM, so I want to get in a half dozen or more 25 yard max effort sprints, trying to hit 13.
Sunday: Day of Recovery. More endurance work initially transitioning to true recovery day focusing on drills.
Last year during my hardest training, I was probably doing 20-25k. This next six weeks I am going to see what only ~15k does.
I will rest 3 days for the meet. The meet is a 3 day meet, and if they keep the same order of events, I will swim the 200 on day 3, but I will only be swimming 1 event per day.
