Planning

Sent this email to my coach Whitney to discuss Resting & preparing for Zones:

Hi Whitney,

I’d like to get your thoughts on tapering & preparing for Zones. I’m not going to LCM Nationals, Zones is it for my LCM season. We’re 17 Days out (Sat July 18 – 19)
events entered:
Saturday 1500 fr 50 fl 100 fr 50 bk 200 IM
Sunday 400 IM 50 Br 200 FR 100 BK 50 FR

Probably should rest more than I did for Sr Cir, but not too much since I’m swimming the 1500 fr, 400 IM, 200 fr & 200 IM.

Meet Entry Form To see order of events

Ande

Longhorn swimmers who’ve entered Zones: (so far)
Bradley Bailey, Todd Bartee. Tyler Blessing, Ed Coates, David Guthrie, Bess Hilpert, Mary Hughes, Kendal Jacobson, Anders Rasmussen, Jeff Thibault, Cynthia Thomas, & Larry Wood

entered the following events for the

Texas Senior Circuit

Senior Circuit Long Course #3 Meet in
Austin, TX on
June 10 - 14, 2009

LCM
some of my entry times are SCY because each event has to have proof of time

Events :

04 400 Freestyle (2) 5:07.03 scy 500 fr
10 050 Freestyle 24.50 LCM

14 200 Freestyle 1:50.70 scy
18 200 Backstroke 2:21.04 LCM
20 100 Butterfly 51.80 scy

28 200 Individual Medley 2:24.08 LCM
34 050 Breaststroke (3) NT No Time in Data Base
38 050 Butterfly (3) 51.80 scy

Today's Wed Mar 11th, 2009 my next 2 meets are:

South Central Zones,
16 days away / 2 weeks 2 days &

2009 SCY Nats in Clovis,
58 days away / 8 weeks 2 days

I'm now training for speed & strength, which is like tapering. I'm done with aerobic & distance training for this season.
Might do some gentle aerobic sets, but the fastest intervals I'll do is 1:15 / 1:20 instead of 1:05 / 1:10

I plan to train through zones,
might rest a day, 2 or 3 for it.

My goal is to
1) swim faster times in practice,
2) get stronger, &
3) stay healthy & injury free.

The best way to get stronger & faster is to not get broken down from hard swimming training.

I'll rest 7 to 14 days for Nationals

training will be similar to what I did just before 2008 nationals


Times will tell



NEXT MEET:
2009 South Central Zone USMS Championships
Friday March 27 - Sun March 29, 2009
16 days away


NEXT MEET
USMS MASTERS NATIONALS
May 8 - 10
http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats09/
58 days away