Reply To: Training for 7 Events in 6 hours
Billratio,
For me your best idea was getting her to narrow down and focus on 3-4 events. If you can’t then your thoughts are correct in that you are going to have to depend on some cross-over. When I have kids that swim multiples I use an IM approach and that way it will cover most of their events. The tricky one is the 50 free.
Here are some formats I’ve used.
Format I
25s fly
25s ba
25s br
50s fr
Format II
25s fly
50 ba
25s br
50s fr
Format III
25s fly
25s ba
50s br
100s free, seen a correlation of ½ the pace time equals 2IM spilt and covers our 200 free. Look at your race splits for IM and see if you see the same thing? Or could just be my kids.
I have tried 50s fly but the technical breakdown as numbers get higher I just won’t tolerate.
With the 50 free, it just doesn’t fit with the other events well. I’ve tried getting in 6-8 x 25s or 10-12 12.5s (with longer rests you know the routine :)) at pace right after warm-up to address the power aspect and keep away from CNS depression. We’ll do it 3 x per week.
Have fun!
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