Okay, here's the situation; im moving to a new city, and their new time standards are really fast to make the high school varsity team. The times in SCY are:
50 Free- 23.29
100 Free- 51.99
200 Free- 1:55.99
Okay, well, after looking at my current speed, my 50 free seems to be my best event, but the thing is, its in LCM
I'm 14, going into grade 10, and my times are (again, in LCM)
50 Free - 28.7
100 Free - 1:05.5
200 Free - 2:33 (Yikes!!)
Anyways my 200 free seems to be my worst freestyle event, but, it is apparently the only event i have a real chance in making the team.
So, how does a sprinter swim the 200 free? Tips pease. Also, the try outs are in 3 weeks or so. And i have a big meet one week before that so i will be tapered but a week off. Like starting today, it goes 1 week of hard training, 1 week of tapering, big meet, ???, Try outs.
Thanks for the help :D
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How to swim the 200 Free?
Swimmers take your mark.
Take a deep breath.
Dive in.
Streamline underwater, feeling the bubbles from your fingertips race past your arms, your chest, your legs.
You're looking at the lane line on the bottom, millions of tiles whizzing past you like stars at warp speed.
You're going ballistic now, but remain calm, there's still 185 yards/meters to go.
The fog's just lifting.
Throw off your bow line; throw off your stern.
You head out to South channel, past Rocky Neck, Ten Pound Island.
Past Niles Pond where I skated as a kid.
Blow your air-horn and throw a wave to the lighthouse keeper's kid on Thatcher Island.
Then the birds show up: black backs, herring gulls, big dump ducks.
The sun hits ya - head North.
Open up to 12 - steamin' now.
I'm sorry. I don't know why I was thinking about the Perfect Storm when I read your original question. Thougth I'd share.
Anyway, the 200 free should be fast, not too fast like a sprint, but moving faster than a 500. Work that 3rd fifty hard so you can give it all you got on the final 50. For me, the last 50 or 25 yards/meters is an all out sprint. I pace myself fast on the first 100, 3-4 seconds off my best 100 time.
How to swim the 200 Free?
Swimmers take your mark.
Take a deep breath.
Dive in.
Streamline underwater, feeling the bubbles from your fingertips race past your arms, your chest, your legs.
You're looking at the lane line on the bottom, millions of tiles whizzing past you like stars at warp speed.
You're going ballistic now, but remain calm, there's still 185 yards/meters to go.
The fog's just lifting.
Throw off your bow line; throw off your stern.
You head out to South channel, past Rocky Neck, Ten Pound Island.
Past Niles Pond where I skated as a kid.
Blow your air-horn and throw a wave to the lighthouse keeper's kid on Thatcher Island.
Then the birds show up: black backs, herring gulls, big dump ducks.
The sun hits ya - head North.
Open up to 12 - steamin' now.
I'm sorry. I don't know why I was thinking about the Perfect Storm when I read your original question. Thougth I'd share.
Anyway, the 200 free should be fast, not too fast like a sprint, but moving faster than a 500. Work that 3rd fifty hard so you can give it all you got on the final 50. For me, the last 50 or 25 yards/meters is an all out sprint. I pace myself fast on the first 100, 3-4 seconds off my best 100 time.
