I was just wondering, how many of you typically enter the maximum number of events that you can? I always do. One of our new coaches wants us to try and focus more on our "stronger events" and skip the other events. I usually like to see how well I might do in a event I haven't done in awhile.
If you don't train in a manner than improves your lactic tolerance and your lactic clearance, wouldn't you need more time to recover, and perform rather poorly if you didn't have that time?
Chris, I suspect you recover more quickly from a 200 fly than I do from a 100 fly ... A 200 back kills the rest of the day for me. We fast twitchers are just different!
It's not helpful to tell someone that based on your experience, how much rest is required should be the same for everyone.
These are all good points, speaking to the fact that training (both its volume and its nature) is probably the most important factor determining how much rest is needed.
Fort, I suspect that the lactate tolerance ability is more imporant that fast vs slow twitch.
What I would say, in the spirit of Muppet and Patrick's comments, is that you don't really know how much rest you need until you push the envelope a little. "Feeling" -- including imagining that you still feel a race 30 minutes after you finish it -- is often a very poor guide to how fast you will swim. There have been races in the past where I have surprised myself, thinking that I didn't have adequate recovery time. In some cases I actually think I did better in the second race than I would have done without the first race (give that lactate buffering system a swift kick to get it going! Though proper warmup should take care of that).
What I will say in addition is that if I anticipate having 30 min or less between races, I will usually spend all of that time in the warmup pool, first recovering from the previous race, and then prepping for the next one.
If you don't train in a manner than improves your lactic tolerance and your lactic clearance, wouldn't you need more time to recover, and perform rather poorly if you didn't have that time?
Chris, I suspect you recover more quickly from a 200 fly than I do from a 100 fly ... A 200 back kills the rest of the day for me. We fast twitchers are just different!
It's not helpful to tell someone that based on your experience, how much rest is required should be the same for everyone.
These are all good points, speaking to the fact that training (both its volume and its nature) is probably the most important factor determining how much rest is needed.
Fort, I suspect that the lactate tolerance ability is more imporant that fast vs slow twitch.
What I would say, in the spirit of Muppet and Patrick's comments, is that you don't really know how much rest you need until you push the envelope a little. "Feeling" -- including imagining that you still feel a race 30 minutes after you finish it -- is often a very poor guide to how fast you will swim. There have been races in the past where I have surprised myself, thinking that I didn't have adequate recovery time. In some cases I actually think I did better in the second race than I would have done without the first race (give that lactate buffering system a swift kick to get it going! Though proper warmup should take care of that).
What I will say in addition is that if I anticipate having 30 min or less between races, I will usually spend all of that time in the warmup pool, first recovering from the previous race, and then prepping for the next one.
