With the current season (we've got three seasons--"long course" in the summer, then two short course seasons, one in the fall and one in the spring) ending on Friday, I'm starting to map out what I will focus on for the next season, which starts on January 2nd.
Over the past couple of months, I've gotten comfortable in the water again, but haven't really focused on any one or two things to concentrate on. I'm picking that now, so I'll have January-April to focus on the areas I pick, so by the time Nats rolls around at the end of April, I should be doing quite well in those things.
The #1 thing I'm focusing on (started last week) is butterfly. Of all four strokes, it by far feels the best. Besides trying to get Nats cuts in it, I've got another, personal, goal. By the time April rolls around, I want to have done one practice all fly. In highschool, I had a bet (no clue what the bet was about) with one of my coaches about doing a 2.5 hour Saturday practice all fly, admittedly with fins. I did do the whole thing fly, so I figure if I was able to do somewhere around a 9000 then, give or take, I should be able to get myself in shape to do roughly a 3500 or so by April.
So, towards that goal, I've set myself a training regimen. At each practice, I'm aiming to do at least a 400 fly throughout the practice. And at one practice a week, I'll do an extra 175 yards. That will build each week, so week one (this week) will have one practice where I'll do a total of 575 yards fly. Week two (first week in January) will have one practice where I'll do a total of 750 yards fly. So on and so forth. In addition, every two weeks I'll increase the base fly amount. So the first two weeks will have a 400 fly as the base amount at practice, the next two will have a 500, then 600, and on and on. By the end of April, that will be a 2800 fly during that one practice and a base amount of an 1100 fly (if my math is correct). I should have a high enough fly endurance at that point that fitting in another 500-700 or so shouldn't be an issue for the all-fly practice.
The #2 thing I'm focusing on is backstroke, getting my technique down. As I mentioned in my post on the video session a week and a half ago, I've got some technique issues I need to iron out. I'm trying to get back to being a flyer and backstroker, something I was the last year and a half or so in highschool.
The #3 thing I'm focusing on is my breaststroke. I know, I know, I'm not a breaststroker by a long shot! That being said, I would like to get back into the IM scene, and that has historically been by far my weakest leg of the IM. All I'm working on is breast technique, so it's quite a bit less of a time consuming issue than my fly or back.
Anyways, with the first foci, I should be able to greatly improve my fly, hopefully surpassing the progress I made in it in highschool. With backstroke, I just want to get back to where I had been, or at least in the general vicinity. And with breast, I just want it to not suck as terribly as it currently does.
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