200 Challenge: Goal time, roadmap and status updates

My goal time is sub-2:20 for SCY. We recently did some broken 200's in practice. Right now, after a month out of the pool, I am capable of hitting 34's for 50s SCY from a push and 31's from a dive. How do I split the 200 without dying at the end? Short answer: 32-34-34-34 What are you splits now? Swimming the 200 is very mental. I suggest swimming your 50s in the following manner, ez speed, strong, build to sprint, sprint. That works out to correct splitting for me, but I am working harder each 50 to maintain the same speed. Mentally, I am turning it up one notch each lap until I hit 11 on the way home. Something else that was really important before I started training my kick was managing my kick. I used to have a really weak kick (now it is just weak), and my kick would progress no kick, gentle kick, strong kick, build to sprint kick. After working on my kick, this doesn't work at all any more, and using this pattern makes my splits look like a strange time mountain. So the stronger your kick and kick endurance, the sooner you can drop the hammer on kicking. If you don't six beat kick while swimming during practice, the weak kick plan is probably a good place to start. If you six beat kick during practice, a strong comfortable kick from the start should work, and you will need to experiment when to crank out your sprint kick. For me, I want to be going full bore about 37.5 yards from the end of the race so I hammer that last wall with max speed. The long answer doesn't give any time guidance, sorry. I understand that you have a really good coach, and I think he could give you some good guidance on how you should be splitting your 200 based on your current conditioning.

My goal time is sub-2:20 for SCY. We recently did some broken 200's in practice. Right now, after a month out of the pool, I am capable of hitting 34's for 50s SCY from a push and 31's from a dive. How do I split the 200 without dying at the end? Short answer: 32-34-34-34 What are you splits now? Swimming the 200 is very mental. I suggest swimming your 50s in the following manner, ez speed, strong, build to sprint, sprint. That works out to correct splitting for me, but I am working harder each 50 to maintain the same speed. Mentally, I am turning it up one notch each lap until I hit 11 on the way home. Something else that was really important before I started training my kick was managing my kick. I used to have a really weak kick (now it is just weak), and my kick would progress no kick, gentle kick, strong kick, build to sprint kick. After working on my kick, this doesn't work at all any more, and using this pattern makes my splits look like a strange time mountain. So the stronger your kick and kick endurance, the sooner you can drop the hammer on kicking. If you don't six beat kick while swimming during practice, the weak kick plan is probably a good place to start. If you six beat kick during practice, a strong comfortable kick from the start should work, and you will need to experiment when to crank out your sprint kick. For me, I want to be going full bore about 37.5 yards from the end of the race so I hammer that last wall with max speed. The long answer doesn't give any time guidance, sorry. I understand that you have a really good coach, and I think he could give you some good guidance on how you should be splitting your 200 based on your current conditioning.