200 Challenge: Goal time, roadmap and status updates

I think that you are unique in that regard. When I do 3 or 4 200's on 8 minutes and am atleast 10 seconds off race pace. Do you wear a tech suit when you do it? I sometimes wear an aquablade and come within 3-4 seconds of race pace. Maybe I should wear my new Amphibian Jammer when I do this set. I also tend to agree with Ehoch that doing timed 200's is good training for the 400 (or 500) more than the 200 itself. I like this set for training for 200's: 4 or 5 300's broken up like this: 75 at the pace you want to take your 200 out in 25 easy (like pull on the ropes easy) 200 keeping long smooth stroke. Dave Salo posted this set somewhere or another. If you want to go under 1:50 in the 200 then you need to go 1:52 in season. 54.0 / 57.9 is how I would split it (not recommending this, just how I would do it). This means to do the 75's in just under 40.5. No tech suits in practice for me. Just to be clear: I am going 2-3 sec off wat I would do in a race AT THE TIME, not at season's end. If one needs, one can take more rest than that. I am going much faster than I could hold for a 500 in a race (again, AT THE TIME). I drop a lot of time when I taper. Last SCY season, my best unrested time in the 200 back was 1:59; I went 1:51 at nationals (wearing legskins). In LCM my best unrested time was 2:19 (legskins) and I went 2:12 at nats (jammers). I mention the suits to show that the drop isn't due to suits but taper/training. That's more of a drop than I usually get when I taper, but 5 sec in a 200 is not at all unusual. So if I follow the logic of "don't do quality work except at goal race pace," I would never swim the entire race until the end of the season. I reject that logic because I like to practice my chosen race.

I think that you are unique in that regard. When I do 3 or 4 200's on 8 minutes and am atleast 10 seconds off race pace. Do you wear a tech suit when you do it? I sometimes wear an aquablade and come within 3-4 seconds of race pace. Maybe I should wear my new Amphibian Jammer when I do this set. I also tend to agree with Ehoch that doing timed 200's is good training for the 400 (or 500) more than the 200 itself. I like this set for training for 200's: 4 or 5 300's broken up like this: 75 at the pace you want to take your 200 out in 25 easy (like pull on the ropes easy) 200 keeping long smooth stroke. Dave Salo posted this set somewhere or another. If you want to go under 1:50 in the 200 then you need to go 1:52 in season. 54.0 / 57.9 is how I would split it (not recommending this, just how I would do it). This means to do the 75's in just under 40.5. No tech suits in practice for me. Just to be clear: I am going 2-3 sec off wat I would do in a race AT THE TIME, not at season's end. If one needs, one can take more rest than that. I am going much faster than I could hold for a 500 in a race (again, AT THE TIME). I drop a lot of time when I taper. Last SCY season, my best unrested time in the 200 back was 1:59; I went 1:51 at nationals (wearing legskins). In LCM my best unrested time was 2:19 (legskins) and I went 2:12 at nats (jammers). I mention the suits to show that the drop isn't due to suits but taper/training. That's more of a drop than I usually get when I taper, but 5 sec in a 200 is not at all unusual. So if I follow the logic of "don't do quality work except at goal race pace," I would never swim the entire race until the end of the season. I reject that logic because I like to practice my chosen race.