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
So, after being awol from the forum for over a yr--I return. My journey back to swimming came as I was dx. with pre-diabetes and a hiatus of >25 yrs from high school swimming. I joined Masters fall of 2017 and swam my first competitive event 3/2018. I added to the butterfly lane prior to this competition. I did fine in the 50 fly 28.84, but I did not finish in the 100 as I said I would. I was dying at the last 25 and I stopped--sad, I know.
It took this time and tried different things (mainly breathing with every stroke vs every other) and this March (2019) I FINISHED 100 fly, but at a time that was okay--1:11.87. I say this as I did 1:11 in practice three days prior to the meet-from a push start. Regardless, I am pleased that I made progress and these past few months I have continued to work on my fly to the point that I signed up to do 100 LCM race next Sat.
The issue now is that I am concerned that like a yr. before I may not finish the race.
I have switched back to breathing every other as I am faster doing this. When I practice in scy I am okay doing it for 100. When I do it in LCM I am out of breath in the middle of second 50 (I am also overall beaten up and entering taper mode). I am trying to stay calm. My plan is to do every other breathing for 1st 50 and switch to every breath in the 2nd 50. As being a wk out I do not have time to build more endurance. Any thoughts besides the sage advice to take it slow for 1st 50 and glide as you can? Thank you
So, after being awol from the forum for over a yr--I return. My journey back to swimming came as I was dx. with pre-diabetes and a hiatus of >25 yrs from high school swimming. I joined Masters fall of 2017 and swam my first competitive event 3/2018. I added to the butterfly lane prior to this competition. I did fine in the 50 fly 28.84, but I did not finish in the 100 as I said I would. I was dying at the last 25 and I stopped--sad, I know.
It took this time and tried different things (mainly breathing with every stroke vs every other) and this March (2019) I FINISHED 100 fly, but at a time that was okay--1:11.87. I say this as I did 1:11 in practice three days prior to the meet-from a push start. Regardless, I am pleased that I made progress and these past few months I have continued to work on my fly to the point that I signed up to do 100 LCM race next Sat.
The issue now is that I am concerned that like a yr. before I may not finish the race.
I have switched back to breathing every other as I am faster doing this. When I practice in scy I am okay doing it for 100. When I do it in LCM I am out of breath in the middle of second 50 (I am also overall beaten up and entering taper mode). I am trying to stay calm. My plan is to do every other breathing for 1st 50 and switch to every breath in the 2nd 50. As being a wk out I do not have time to build more endurance. Any thoughts besides the sage advice to take it slow for 1st 50 and glide as you can? Thank you
