The Butterfly Lane

Back when I was swimming age group, my events were the 200 fly (I did the 100 as well, but was better at the 200), 100/200 back, and 400 IM. I took a few years off from competing, and just started competing again last year. I've done the 200 fly once since I started competing again, back in March, and had a horrible swim. Managed to avoid dying and sinking to the bottom of the pool, but my time was laughably slow. The practices on my team are only an hour long and the lanes can get pretty crowded, so I could never get any good fly endurance training in. With that limitation, I trained for sprint fly instead. My 50 fly is now faster than it ever was in high school, and my 100 is only a couple seconds off my highschool time. When we switch back to training short course in September, I'm going to start training for the 200 fly again. I've been working on my backstroke this summer, since it has been deplorable. My goal is to swim both the 200 fly and 200 back at spring Nats in Indy. Come September, I'll keep the 1 hour team practices for stroke speed training, but swim a few hours on my own each week to train endurance. I remember a challenge my coach gave me as a result of some long since forgotten stupid bet in highschool--I lost the bet, so I had to do a 2.5 hour Saturday morning practice all fly, but he did let me wear fins. I ended up doing somewhere north of 10,000 yards fly (that's as high as I counted before zoning out), and actually managed to maintain somewhat decent technique the entire time without relying on 5 kicks per pull. My goal is to get my fly endurance up enough to the point where I can do one of our 1 hour practices all fly without fins.

Back when I was swimming age group, my events were the 200 fly (I did the 100 as well, but was better at the 200), 100/200 back, and 400 IM. I took a few years off from competing, and just started competing again last year. I've done the 200 fly once since I started competing again, back in March, and had a horrible swim. Managed to avoid dying and sinking to the bottom of the pool, but my time was laughably slow. The practices on my team are only an hour long and the lanes can get pretty crowded, so I could never get any good fly endurance training in. With that limitation, I trained for sprint fly instead. My 50 fly is now faster than it ever was in high school, and my 100 is only a couple seconds off my highschool time. When we switch back to training short course in September, I'm going to start training for the 200 fly again. I've been working on my backstroke this summer, since it has been deplorable. My goal is to swim both the 200 fly and 200 back at spring Nats in Indy. Come September, I'll keep the 1 hour team practices for stroke speed training, but swim a few hours on my own each week to train endurance. I remember a challenge my coach gave me as a result of some long since forgotten stupid bet in highschool--I lost the bet, so I had to do a 2.5 hour Saturday morning practice all fly, but he did let me wear fins. I ended up doing somewhere north of 10,000 yards fly (that's as high as I counted before zoning out), and actually managed to maintain somewhat decent technique the entire time without relying on 5 kicks per pull. My goal is to get my fly endurance up enough to the point where I can do one of our 1 hour practices all fly without fins.