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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Don't forget that yards are smaller than meters - 0.9144 meters to the yard.
So, your 50 meter time translates to about 26.24 seconds in a 50 yard pool. Subtract time for a second wall push-off (maybe 2 seconds? maybe less?) and you're down to about 24 seconds for 50 yards. So, you may be closer to those qualifying times than you think.
Don't forget that yards are smaller than meters - 0.9144 meters to the yard.
So, your 50 meter time translates to about 26.24 seconds in a 50 yard pool. Subtract time for a second wall push-off (maybe 2 seconds? maybe less?) and you're down to about 24 seconds for 50 yards. So, you may be closer to those qualifying times than you think.
