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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Good discussion - but some different view points
But nothing reproduces the feeling of a race 200 quite like actually doing them. You can do this in meets and in practice test sets; we do 5 x 200 on 7:00 (from the blocks) several times during the year.
I would never do that -- I think this is good training for a 400, not a 200. Turnover and pace would be exactly on my 400 pace - not 200. Why train the body for a different pace and distance - the pain will be there no matter what.
That is just about exactly my experience as well: one should be able to hold 2nd-100 pace for multiple 100s on about the 3:00, perhaps a little faster.
I would not have been able to do that as a youngster - let alone now. At 1:50, my second 100 would be 56.0. From a push, I could barely do that on 6 minutes 20 years ago or now ...
Good discussion - but some different view points
But nothing reproduces the feeling of a race 200 quite like actually doing them. You can do this in meets and in practice test sets; we do 5 x 200 on 7:00 (from the blocks) several times during the year.
I would never do that -- I think this is good training for a 400, not a 200. Turnover and pace would be exactly on my 400 pace - not 200. Why train the body for a different pace and distance - the pain will be there no matter what.
That is just about exactly my experience as well: one should be able to hold 2nd-100 pace for multiple 100s on about the 3:00, perhaps a little faster.
I would not have been able to do that as a youngster - let alone now. At 1:50, my second 100 would be 56.0. From a push, I could barely do that on 6 minutes 20 years ago or now ...
