My kick pace without fins is about 3:30/100 so two years of kicking every session I’m just giving up on that. So moving on the breast and back, which I tend to use in WU and WD at an easy effort.
Is it okay that my easy effort breast is 2:15/100, does it matter? Perhaps indicates a weak catch?
Backstroke count is 50% higher per length than FS - should you ‘reach’ like in front crawl to lengthen the stroke? All the effort in my BS feels like kick, which as above is basically pointless.
I cant say what is wrong, Breaststroke is about 50% kick though. Most people have timing issues, work on that with the 3 seconds glide drill, pull, kick, glide and hold the glide for 3 seconds in a good streamline, pointed toes. remember the kick, pull heals up to bum, feet wider than knees in a W shape, the kick is then a whip, rotated from thighs not through the knees, with outpointed dorsi flexed feet, you use the bottoms to push water back!
Id actually say that unless you really want to be a good breaststroker, use flutter (or fly) kicks and put speed through the recovery to help your FC more
back yes you reach but use a lot of rotation as well to help extend.
Cheers, last question - how to pace an 800m pool swim leg in a standard distance triathlon?
Hoping to test tomorrow morning, but basically going to try to hold my strong effort 50s, what I think is my threshold - 1:40, 50-52 strokes per minute. I could chance it by trying for nearer to 1:35 but keeping the stroke long.
I’d set off very easy otherwise at 200m you’re going to have a very long day.
I’m a bilateral breather & I’d be planning to be breathing comfortably until towards the end when I would be on the cusp of breathing every second stroke.
yep, in a pool based tri I always treated the swim as a warm up, as the difference is, 30seconds or so, and I would lose that faffing with fatigue in transition, and you wont have had a proper warm up anyway. Start the first 400 like any first 400 in a training WU and build into it.
So it turns out there’s a leisure center in the community with a 25m pool with some actual lane markings on the tiles. There’s lots of 20m pools dotted about but they’ve all white floors. I will however be faced turning at the steps… quite an odd design decision that one.
