The Butterfly Lane

Butterfly, beautiful to watch, difficult to train. We SDK off every wall. We're most likely to smack hands with each other and those beside us. Fly's fun to sprint but no fun when the piano comes down What did you do in practice today? the breastroke lane The Middle Distance Lane The Backstroke Lane The Butterfly Lane The SDK Lane The Taper Lane The Distance Lane The IM Lane The Sprint Free Lane The Pool Deck
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  • My thoughts are I'm glad it's over! It's definitely a different animal than a 200 fly short course. I think you can actually swim a good 200 fly short course just by doing lots of 25 flies in training. Not so for the long course event. To do a good long course 200 fly you need a stroke you can hold together for a long time and this means good tempo and a consistent kick. I know for me I fell into survival mode way too early. I hardly ever kick fly in workouts and I think next time I try a 200 fly this is something I'll need to do if I want to swim the race well. I agree about the kick. In practice, I often swim the last 25 of a fly swim with the biggest kick I can summon. Yesterday I pushed off the last wall and tried to swim the last 50 with the big kick. Since I was already tired, the big kick only lasted maybe 20 meters before I realized I had to revert to my normal kick or else the piano would drop. It seems stupidly obvious now: if I want to use a big kick for 50 meters, I have to practice it that way! Alternately, I could have waited until 175 meters to start the big kick. That might have worked, though I'm not accustomed to increasing my kick in the middle of a length.
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  • My thoughts are I'm glad it's over! It's definitely a different animal than a 200 fly short course. I think you can actually swim a good 200 fly short course just by doing lots of 25 flies in training. Not so for the long course event. To do a good long course 200 fly you need a stroke you can hold together for a long time and this means good tempo and a consistent kick. I know for me I fell into survival mode way too early. I hardly ever kick fly in workouts and I think next time I try a 200 fly this is something I'll need to do if I want to swim the race well. I agree about the kick. In practice, I often swim the last 25 of a fly swim with the biggest kick I can summon. Yesterday I pushed off the last wall and tried to swim the last 50 with the big kick. Since I was already tired, the big kick only lasted maybe 20 meters before I realized I had to revert to my normal kick or else the piano would drop. It seems stupidly obvious now: if I want to use a big kick for 50 meters, I have to practice it that way! Alternately, I could have waited until 175 meters to start the big kick. That might have worked, though I'm not accustomed to increasing my kick in the middle of a length.
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