In masters swimming, even although there are lots of age groups, events are usually swum either men and women mixed or women and men separately and then sorted by age group after the event is swum. So picking your events can be a bit challenging. You try to make sure you are adequately recovered between them, or that you pace yourself through the meet.
So here's my challenge for March:
Arthur Inglis Invitational, March 17, Short Course Metres
Event Order (7:45 warm-up, 8:30 start, 11:00 finish)
200 Free
50 Fly
100 Back
50 Breast
50 Free
100 Breast
50 Back
200 IM
100 Fly
100 Free
200 Choice Relay
Bearing in mind that I'm not a freestyler, my first thought was to swim the 50 fly, 100 breast, 100 free. My second thought was to have a bit more fun with it and swim 50 fly, 50 free, and 100 free, as my plan next weekend is to swim (long course) 50 fly, 100 breast and 50 breast at the Ian Button Memorial Meet.
Nationals are in Winnipeg May 18th -21st. There will be one more local meet (May 5th, event order not yet available) prior to Nationals. I want to do one away meet this year, and the one Technosport is peaking for is not at a particulalry good time for me. If I can swing pet sitting, I'd rather go to IMAZ (IronMan Arizona) and cheer than go to Quebec for their provincial championships. Here's the challenge for Winnipeg:
Friday May 18, 2007
200 Individual Medley
1500 Freestyle
Break
4x100 Medley Relay (Mixed)
4x100 Medley Relay
Saturday May 19, 2007
400 Freestyle (Women)
400 Individual Medley (Men)
Break
50 Freestyle
200 Breaststroke
100 Butterfly
50 Backstroke
200 Freestyle
4x50 Medley Relay(Mixed)
4x50 Freestyle Relay
Sunday May 20, 2007
400 Individual Medley (Women)
400 Freestyle (Men)
Break
100 Individual Medley
200 Backstroke
50 Butterfly
100 Breaststroke
100 Freestyle
4x50 Free Relay (Mixed)
4x50 Medley Relay
Monday May 21, 2007
800 Freestyle
Break / Warm-up
200 Butterfly
100 Backstroke
50 Breaststroke
4x100 Freestyle Relay
4x100 Freestyle Relay (Mixed)
Breaks of 30 minutes for officials will be taken each day with timing subject to change.
I haven't yet committed to the meet, but here's what I'm thinking. Skip Friday. Saturday swim the 50 free (unless I decide in the next week or so that I can actually whip myself into good enough shape to swim a decent 100 fly). Sunday 100 IM, 100 breast. Monday 50 breast.
So this is your chance to weigh in kids. What do you think?
Thursday, February 15, 2007
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5 comments:
What? No 200 fly at the Arthur Inglis Invitational?
I say you swim: 50 Free and then 50 fly and then 100 fly.
Going to Phoenix is always better than going to Winnipeg, there are no exceptions.
Wow! Wow! Wow! My swimming idol! Still waiting on that video :-)
WS, LOL!
I can go to Phoenix and Winnipeg. They don't conflict. What I don't think I can do is go to Phoenix and then to Quebec City to compete the following weekend. Duane (the Technosport coach) wants to win Quebec provincials (again).
Duane, you are too kind! (And I hear you. I'll see what I can do ...)
I'd go with 100 free and 100 breast as part of the march to qualifying.
After that, I'd pick something upon which to build. 50 fly (as you selected) would be good, as would 100IM.
Brent ... but what if I could qualify in the 50 free? (As weird and counterintuitive as that idea is!!)
Last year's 100 breast lcm standard for women 45 -49 was 1:54. I swam 1:37.7 short.
I guess I just don't want to be at the point where I am obsessing about the 100 breast, and I'm thinking with 2 breaststroke events this weekend, maybe I don't need to be doing the hundred again in 3 weeks ...
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