200 Challenge: Goal time, roadmap and status updates

For you 200 swimmers out there -- one of the best sets to get ready is "broken 200s" at race pace. For short course I would suggest a break at the 100 and at the 150 (every 50 is too much rest) -- or at 75 and 150. There are 2 ways to swim this and I try to use both - go 4x200 on every 9 or 10 minutes (this is an all-out effort) - odds: breaks are 10 sec evens: breaks are as much as needed to swim goal time - this may be 20-30 sec in the beginning of the season, but hopefully it will come down. Do this once a week for about 6-8 weeks starting about 10 weeks out from your main meet. My own target is to go sub 1:50 in December -- I actually have the speed and need to improve endurance while not taking anything away from my speed. Roadmap: Going for an Eric Heiden tribute, hopefully starting with a good 1500 in October and then going down in distances as the main meet gets closer ...

For you 200 swimmers out there -- one of the best sets to get ready is "broken 200s" at race pace. For short course I would suggest a break at the 100 and at the 150 (every 50 is too much rest) -- or at 75 and 150. There are 2 ways to swim this and I try to use both - go 4x200 on every 9 or 10 minutes (this is an all-out effort) - odds: breaks are 10 sec evens: breaks are as much as needed to swim goal time - this may be 20-30 sec in the beginning of the season, but hopefully it will come down. Do this once a week for about 6-8 weeks starting about 10 weeks out from your main meet. My own target is to go sub 1:50 in December -- I actually have the speed and need to improve endurance while not taking anything away from my speed. Roadmap: Going for an Eric Heiden tribute, hopefully starting with a good 1500 in October and then going down in distances as the main meet gets closer ...