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Originally Posted by Ogedei
So you only got one breath on sprint #6? That's Evil.
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yea haha. after doing it a few times, you learn to save the breathing for the hard sprints - par 1 and par 2 sprints - rather than wasting it on the par 4 and sometimes the par 3's.
like on sprint 3, you have a par 4. you don't use all 4 breaths, maybe you will use 2 breaths. staying on par for the first 2 sprints will leave you with a -2 score after you finish sprint 3. now you have have 2 extra breaths you can "waste" on a hard sprint, such as spring 6.
once you get up to spring 14 or so, its pretty hard to stay on par if you're not in really good shape.
thats what we did on my college swim team, i wouldn't expect a newcomer to swimming to be able to pull something like that off with the rest periods we had. i was swimming all the sprints under 30seconds, and then getting around 10-15 seconds rest...so definately adjust to your level of swimming.