Set of the Week

As our Championship meet creeps closer and closer, I thought my kids were in need of some racing fun.  So, we did this set 3 times last week and the kids loved it.

8x75 on 2:00 Free
I paired the kids up by similar speeds and racing abilities.  While swimmer 1 swam a moderate first 50 of the 75, his partner waited on the wall.  When swimmer 1 flipped and hit the wall to go on for the final 25, swimmer 2 pushed off (just a second later) and the pair raced side by side to the finish.  They alternated positions each 50.


I liked this because it made the swimmers race through fatigue.  They had to hold it together and race when they were tired.  It also put them in positions where they were in the lead and had to hold off their opponents.  And on the other side of it, catch the person ahead of them.  Lots of good racing fun on this one.
You could play around with the amount of time you want swimmer 2 to wait on the wall after swimmer 1 hits.  I had swimmer 2 push off right away the first time we did this set.  The second time I had swimmer 2 push off a second late and that made the race more competitive.  By the third time we did this set, I had the kids decide when they pushed off with the idea that they needed it to be a close race at the finish.