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.
Syd wrote: "It's one thing to do a broken 200 with 10 seconds rest at the 50 but quite another to swim four 50's consecutively at your target time. The first one will leave you out of breath while the second will leave you gasping for breath and wracked with a feeling of nausea."
Ain't it the truth, that feeling of nausea. I can psyche myself up for trying to ignore that feeling, and pushing through it anyway, when I'm getting prepared for an actual race. But I just can't do it that often in a practice. It requires a daily/weekly mental toughness that I just can't muster (and still function at work the rest of the day). I can come right up to that point, but I can only commit to going through that point when I'm racing. My solution is to try to do more races this fall.
Syd wrote: "It's one thing to do a broken 200 with 10 seconds rest at the 50 but quite another to swim four 50's consecutively at your target time. The first one will leave you out of breath while the second will leave you gasping for breath and wracked with a feeling of nausea."
Ain't it the truth, that feeling of nausea. I can psyche myself up for trying to ignore that feeling, and pushing through it anyway, when I'm getting prepared for an actual race. But I just can't do it that often in a practice. It requires a daily/weekly mental toughness that I just can't muster (and still function at work the rest of the day). I can come right up to that point, but I can only commit to going through that point when I'm racing. My solution is to try to do more races this fall.
