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
I've got a long history with the SCY 200 fly, mostly a love-hate relationship, but it's an event I love to swim, piano and all. For the past 5 years or so, I've breathed every stroke except for the first stroke of the start, but for this season I'm experimenting with a 2 up/1 down breathing pattern for it, including not breathing off the walls. I'm a sucker for oxygen, though, so it's going to be a rough transition. 🤣
I've played around in the water doing some moderately paced 100s alternating between breathing every stroke and trying out the 2/1 BP. I swam them all well off race pace, but have been consistently 1-3 seconds faster with the 2/1 BP and haven't tightened up as bad at the end of each 100.
I'm cautiously optimistic that, given what I've seen in the past few weeks of playing around in the water, I will finally break through the 2:20 plateau this year!
I'll be chronicling my 200 fly trials and tribulations here as I
#1 get back in racing shape from a laid back summer
#2 start racing the 200 fly (likely not till October/November)
I'll post a follow-up with some race videos from the past couple of seasons later today.
I've got a long history with the SCY 200 fly, mostly a love-hate relationship, but it's an event I love to swim, piano and all. For the past 5 years or so, I've breathed every stroke except for the first stroke of the start, but for this season I'm experimenting with a 2 up/1 down breathing pattern for it, including not breathing off the walls. I'm a sucker for oxygen, though, so it's going to be a rough transition. 🤣
I've played around in the water doing some moderately paced 100s alternating between breathing every stroke and trying out the 2/1 BP. I swam them all well off race pace, but have been consistently 1-3 seconds faster with the 2/1 BP and haven't tightened up as bad at the end of each 100.
I'm cautiously optimistic that, given what I've seen in the past few weeks of playing around in the water, I will finally break through the 2:20 plateau this year!
I'll be chronicling my 200 fly trials and tribulations here as I
#1 get back in racing shape from a laid back summer
#2 start racing the 200 fly (likely not till October/November)
I'll post a follow-up with some race videos from the past couple of seasons later today.
