Many moons ago - maybe 7 or 8 years, my teammates and myself would discuss which is harder - the 200 fly or 400IM.
I always thought the 400IM would be worse as it involves backstroke which drains me and then I would have to stay with the plot on 100 ***, and I'm not a breaststroker by any stretch of the imagination.
200 fly on the other hand, well its all fly and 200 less than the 400IM and once you've got your rhythm you're set ..... so what do you all think?
No question that the 200 fly, esp. LCM, is the scariest of the two because if you take it out too hard you literally cannot do the stroke. I spent over 50 seconds (and several lifetimes) swimming the last 50 meters of fly in Cleveland at a nationals a few years ago (I heard a guy yell "world record" at the turn and by the end of that length I felt like world "disaster"). It took me 3 years to dare to try it again. .
I saw this race. It was a large part of the inspiration for my proposed slogan for USMS--i.e.,
USMS: Where Old Men Go to Die.
Someone once told me the difference in stroke count between the 200 SCY fly and the 200 LCM fly. Even though the latter is only 10 percent further in distance, the absence of the walls means you will end up taking somewhere on the order of two times as many strokes to finish. In a sense, it's more like a 400 SCY fly!
Greg, very glad to see you have Lazarused your way back to spectacular life after that (I hate to say it, but...) highly entertaining to watch death-by-200-fly in Cleveland. BTW, that was actually 8 years ago, if you can believe it.
No question that the 200 fly, esp. LCM, is the scariest of the two because if you take it out too hard you literally cannot do the stroke. I spent over 50 seconds (and several lifetimes) swimming the last 50 meters of fly in Cleveland at a nationals a few years ago (I heard a guy yell "world record" at the turn and by the end of that length I felt like world "disaster"). It took me 3 years to dare to try it again. .
I saw this race. It was a large part of the inspiration for my proposed slogan for USMS--i.e.,
USMS: Where Old Men Go to Die.
Someone once told me the difference in stroke count between the 200 SCY fly and the 200 LCM fly. Even though the latter is only 10 percent further in distance, the absence of the walls means you will end up taking somewhere on the order of two times as many strokes to finish. In a sense, it's more like a 400 SCY fly!
Greg, very glad to see you have Lazarused your way back to spectacular life after that (I hate to say it, but...) highly entertaining to watch death-by-200-fly in Cleveland. BTW, that was actually 8 years ago, if you can believe it.
