What is the hardest event in swimming?
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5.) the event you don't like
4.) the event you don't swim often
3.) the event you don't have a strategy for
2.) the event you don't train for
1.) the event you can't physically swim without being DQ'd (I had a swimmer who's knees physically could not rotate out).
The 400 IM is the most difficult to train for.
Perfect answer I believe
Honestly one of the best responses here, but the only thing I don't agree with is the #3 spot, just because that's 200 free, ironically the only event I have a strategy for. Great explanation though!
@@Feyntheviewer I should clarify. I coached age group swimming (7-13 year olds). By strategy I mean breathing pattern, the intensity of the kick, how many kicks off each wall. (the goal of the strategy was to keep the swimmers from thinking about other swimmers).
Haha so true
"I had a swimmer who's knees physically could not rotate out". Oof, never before have I felt so heard. It's not quite _that_ bad for me in that I can kinda sorta do breaststroke, but it's very painful and I end up doing a weird lopsided version of it. I can't really do squats either for the same reason.
5) 400 Free (basically double the pain duration of a 200 Free)
4) 1500 Free (mentally taxing. Slow build up of pain up to the 500m, then just sustain hurt for the remaining 1000m)
3) 200 Fly (If you can go numb and just sustain, you're lucky)
2) 200 Back (legs crying. spiting breaths. No flags in sight)
1) 400 IM (After the first 100 Fly it's basically doubling the pain time of swimming a 200 Back, Breast, and Free)
Your right
The 200 back is so underrated as a hard event. I’m still in a team of people who would put 50 fly in top 5
@@tedwendt6395 true ur quads dieeeee
tbh i would replace 400 free with 200m breaststroke or 200m free because of the third 25m
I’m a 200 back main and I confirm my legs cry but I still wouldn’t put it in top 5
400 im is the hardest to race, but the easiest to improve
I think I need to see the doctor
#2) 400IM
#1) 200 breast then 1500 as #3
Anyone can finish a 400 I’m legally but they can’t all finish at 200 fly
@@minnil7927 200fly is hardest if you cant do it, but once you can it immediately is equal to any other 200 race
@@katsmith5692nah bro order is 1. 200 butterfly 2. 200 backstroke 3. 1500 freestyle because I haven't tried and 400 im is fun
Edit i dont have best event
As a middle-school club swimmer who sucks at fly, these are my top 3 (because in my opinion, none of the other events come close to the pain that I experience while racing these 3):
3. 400 IM - If you're bad at any of the strokes, you can't be good at the 400 IM. The fly is 100 fly pace, so of course it's painful; on the backstroke, your body is screaming at you to take some recovery but you have to push through the pain and go fast; on the breaststroke, the exhaustion hits you like a truck, and the burning sensation in your lungs on the pullouts is awful; on the freestyle, you're dead, but you have to sprint.
2. 1650/1500 - It's not horrible physically, but it's so, so, so hard to do mentally. You need to find the groove in your first 100, and whatever pace you go out with, you have to keep up an entire 20+ minutes. Simply put, it feels endless. If you don't have the mental strength to push through the pain for those 20 minutes, you won't be able to swim it well. And when your goggles fog up or fill with water, you're basically a blind man thrashing around in the pool and trying your best to ram into the lane lines and walls or miss your turns.
- extreme gap -
1. 200 fly - I just can't do the 200 fly. The feeling of doom before each race and the pain I experience during it is the worst I've ever felt in my life. The first 100, I'm cruising, and everything's going just great. Then I turn, and it's like my body stops working. My arms go numb, my legs sink to the bottom, my core starts burning, and I suddenly need so much air. I struggle slowly, painfully, to the 150 mark, and I want to stop so badly, but somehow I come up with the strength to turn, and that last 50 is pure agony. I can't describe it in words. After the race, my whole body is shaking, I lose feeling in my legs for a good ten minutes, and I can barely heave myself out of the pool.
That is exactly what I feel on the 200, first hundred is great, but then my limbs and respiratory system quits on the second hundred. The only times I ever drop on it is when I miraculously feel good on the second 100.
I was a breastroker, butterflyer, and mid to distance freestyler. Therefore I swam all breastroke distances, butterfly distances, 400 and 1500m freestyles, and 200 and 400 im. By far the 400im is the most painful, especially when I did it once at the Air Force Academy at 1.5 mile elevation. I was puking in the gutter at the end.
As someone in colorado who is a 400Im'er and a flyer, you are absolutely right even with being completely adjusted to the elevation. It's super super super painful.
I think, it depends a lot on the pool length. :)
As a flyer myself, i think, that a 200 SCM Fly isnt too bad, but the 200 fly LCM are just painful as hell
As a flyer myself too, I 100% agree. LCM 200 fly is so so so much worse
Walls are your best friend in 2 fly and long course makes the distance between them over twice as long and divides the amount of walls you have by 2
as a terrible butterflyer but a good underwater swimmer I can confirm
My best stroke is butterfly and I love the 200 scy fly and I swim it at almost every meet but I only do the 200 lcm like once a season. It's rough.
The most challenging event is mid season workout. If you're doing it right.
Look, everyone who has commented has a very valid point! But just putting this one out there... I am a Masters Swimmer in Australia and we do some pretty silly events in Australian Masters Swimming. I am a state record holder for my age group (35-39 years) in my home state of Queensland for 800m Breaststroke. Just saying that I felt like I was legit dying at about 600m when I did that... actually had thoughts of stopping after 400m haha.
Australia's different 😂
@@andrewwong8928 LOL. Not wrong! I am also a National Record holder in the Short Course (metres) 400m Breaststroke.
very true, but if we're going off of international standards, then things even out a little... also can't believe your still sane after that lol.
I’ll agree with ya… except that 200 fly/back combo. I get what you’re saying about elite swimmers, but I think for ur average swimmer (which is obviously more common), the 200 fly is undoubtedly harder. Everyone can finish a 200 back, not everyone can even finish a 2 fly 😂
true
As a 200 back main I agree
I think he's talking elite level or at least himself
From a distance swimmer/ backstroker:
5: 400 Free ( literally a 200 free twice)
4: 1500 Free (mentally tough to push your self to the brink of death for 17+ minutes)
3: 200 IM (Genuinely the only 200 that has no strat just sprint the entire time)
2: 200 Back (Legs disappear from existence, you hyperventilate and just generally want to stop existing)
1: 400 IM (everything Kyle said in the vid was spot on)
Boutta see the most valid list
1)LCM 400 IM
2)SCM or SCY 200 BK
3)LCM or SCY 1500/1650
4)LCM 200 Fly
5)200 yard free (Literally a sprint straight through)
Here's my guess for Michael Andrew's #1: 200 IM
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Interesting fact, in rio 2016 in the 200 back Larkin who won the silver was using a weird 2 beat like kick which was kinda strange that he won the silver since backstroke is such a leg driven stroke
take a look at Ryosuke Irie's kick as well...
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Man just said backstroke was leg driven 💀
@@L14Mswimit kinda is
@@L14Mswim it is mostly bro the main thing about back is not letting your hips sink
to me it looked like a three beat, two up with the left, one with the right, every 2 strokes
5. 200 fly (not bad but sucks when out of shape)
4. 400 im (like a 200 but worse)
3. 200 breast (legs but less than back)
2. 800/1000 free (always found this harder than the 1500/1650)
1. 200 back (actual hell the entire time, my legs arent legging, i hate back so much why is it my prime)
this will change constantly (usually after i swim 2 back)
For LCM 5)200fly (not bad just so much nervs before the event) 4)1500(no bad if you can repeat a song in your head but the lactic acid built up after is insane) 3)1000 (this is the same as the 1500 just faster and more painful) 2)200back(I always hit. The 15m mark on my first two turns but after that my legs are dying and I am just arming the whole time 1) 400im (after the back I can’t do my pull out to far and feel like I am drowning)
For SCY 5) 200im (is a all out and honestly it’s hard to keep up the distance I wanna go underwater) 4) 500(it’s the longest sprint and the training you have to do to go fast is just not fun) 3) 1650(so many turns I get dizzy) 2)400im (I wanna die after it bc of the all the breast turns I just can’t breath as well 1) 200back (I go fast on my underwater and by the last 50 I can’t even make it past 10 yards in my underwater and my legs and I can’t walk after for a bit)
My kid's swimming club decided on a non-stop swimming fundraising. I had kept up my swim training since 1964 and didn't want our young swimmers doing their part at night when they should be sleeping. I took 10 pm to 6 am. I was 42 yo. I did it. I swam breaststroke slowly, with parents knowing my signal to either half a banana or my homemade Gatorade. On receipt, I would swim on my back - never stopping. Whilst I surprised the club I could never do an English Channel swim.
1. 400 IM 2. 200 FLY -> Very Large Gap ->3. 1500 FR 4. 800 FR -> another very large gap -> 400 FR
Distance events pace themselves once you find a groove hence the very large gap. Also, the 60 yard difference between the 500 yd FR and the 400 m FR bridges the second very large gap for whatever reason
1) 400 IM
2) 200 Fly
3) 200 Back
4) 200 Breast
5) 200 Free
I agree, but only slightly.
200 fly hardest event easily
As a flyer and breaststroker, it better be the 200 back. EDIT: Oh come on.
My list: (never swam 1500/1650 before)
5. 100 back, dead by first 50, hold on second 50
4. 400/500 free, it hurts but not as much as longer distances
3. 200 IM, sprint the whole thing pretty much
2. 1000/800 free, mentally and physically taxing and tight races add more pain
1. 200 back, legs dead by 100 and try to survive next 100
I feel this 😂
As a distance swimmer I think my list would be:
1) 200 back
2) 1500 free
3) 400 IM
4) 200 fly
5) 800 free
Kyle, when is it time for your first meet of the year?👀 Keep us updated👊🏻
Working on that right now, but worst case scenario it’ll be at the very beginning of February 🤝
@@Sockwell stoked! Good luck💪🏼
As a 47.8 butterflier:
1. Controversial but the 200 IM (I know Kyle won’t go for this but the feeling of sprinting continuously for a 200 is personally worse than the more chill 400 IM)
2. 200 back. (As Kyle said, this one just turns your legs into jello)
3. 400 IM (yeah it’s more chill than its younger brother, but this one fucks you up.)
4. 500 freestyle (I honestly think this one is worse than the longer distance events because you can like, almost sprint it. For the 8 and the mile, you just settle into a pace and chill there until you kick, but for this, you have to bite it like the 2 from the start, and you can’t let go when you feel like you’re dying with 200 to go. Truly underrated event)
5. 200 fly (honestly overrated in how hard it is, at least if you’re a good flier. Basically because of how speed drops off in fly, it’s optimal to not actually get that tired in this race. However, if you get too excited and fuck it up by going out too fast, no race makes you feel just stuck like this one)
5) 100 Back
Kind of same reason as the 200 Back, but just a lot more intense. If you're in short course, then you'll be gasping for air by the end because of how much time you spent underwater. If you're in long course, then your legs and shoulders will be basically disintegrating.
4) 200 Fly
No explanation needed.
3) 100 Free
Yeah I know this is a weird one but idk I just feel like 100 Free makes me more tired than almost any other event, despite me not being very good at it.
2) 200 Back
Pretty much for the same reasons as listed in the video. It's just brutal on your legs. Uninformed people like to assume that backstroke is easier to race because you can breathe more. WRONG! If you're swimming backstroke correctly, that means you're pushing every underwater to 15 meters. Doubly wrong if you're in a short course pool. Backstroke just means you have to hold your breath for more than half of the race while destroying your legs and abs, and then still somehow keep enough leg strength left over to get yourself to the wall. Rinse and repeat that painful process 8 times and you have the short course 200 Back.
1) 200 IM
In my opinion the 200 IM is harder than the 400 IM, because for me at least it's way harder to sustain 99% effort for a 200 than it is to sustain 90-95% effort for a 400. You just hit a different energy system in the 200 IM than you do in the 400 IM, and to me it makes it harder despite being half the distance.
For context, I'm mainly a 200 backstroker and I also do 100 Back, 200 Breast, and 400 IM. Having your best event also be your 2nd hardest event is quite something. So for me, adding on to the insane physical challenge of the 200 Back is the additional mental challenge of knowing it's my best race and I have to lock in.
my list and explanations. All these events hurt in their own unique way.
5.) 200 Breaststroke (call me crazy, I'm a breaststroker/sprinter, and coming into that last turn knowing your about to tear your lungs apart then sprint as hard as you possibly can, while having everything burning.. is painful)
4.) 200 Backstroke (Backstroke is not my thing, its probably my worst stroke, but the 200 back you really have to pace right, cause if you go out too fast on that first 100, the last 25 you are not going to be able to move correctly)
3.) 200 Butterfly (I'm not much of a flyer, I can sprint fly alright when I need to, but 2 fly is just horrible, when you touch at the 150 knowing your arms are about to experience brutal pain like no other, is awful)
2.) 1650 or the mile (I'm not a distance swimmer whatsoever, and the first time I swam this event, my arms, hands, legs were locked up and cramped by the time I touched the wall and my lungs were dead, that last 50 is an all out painful sprint)
1.) 400 IM (Let me start this out saying, I can swim IM, 100, 200 IM love it.. But the 400 IM is hands down the most painful event , when you come off that backstroke and you do the first pullout, you feel like your going to pass out, last 25 of the freestyle your arms dont want to move)
200 free #5
200 IM #4
200 fly #3
1650 (mile) #2
400 IM #1
My list is gonna be a little different than most because I am only a high school swimmer, never swam outside of it, so these are purely high school events.
5. 500 Free - Tends to hurt towards the 250 mark, but then everything just goes numb and it becomes really easy to do a continuous negative split the rest of the race.
4. 100 Back - I really just suck at it so it really is bad to me. Plus, even though my underwaters are good, I tend to get an endless amount of snot on my face when I do my breakout. And then the starts on a flat wall, not even getting into that.
3. 200 IM - Only a 50 of fly then a 50 of back, then I get to zoom the last 100.
2. 100 Fly - I am not a bad flyer but it messes up my shoulders so I hate it entirely.
And lastly, the most controversial...
1. 200 Free - Going 200 yards sprinting is the worst feeling ever to me. Gotta zoom as fast as you can, preferably going out within 2 seconds of your fastest 50, then holding the pace within 4 seconds of that for the next 150 yards. Pure pain and obliteration.
No one takes hs swimmers seriously. They don’t train enough aerobic, plus they think they can compete with club swimmers. And I forgot to mention they are annoying asf.
This is almost exactly the list that my high school coach has, the 200 Free is probably the most brutal high school event
i swim club a year ago and now since i am a freshman in high school swim I hate the 200 free the worst even in just swimming practice. i am sad cause i can pace myself good so my couch might put me in the 200 free. i normally just swim 50 free and 100 free. i can swim for a long time so distance is not baf i just hate 200 free lol
Means you’re not trying hard enough in the 500 lol
Agree. 400 IM long course totally demanding. 800 and 1500 long course more painful.
i think if its shortcourse this stuff changes slightly, i think the 200 scm backstroke is insanely hard due to the amount of underwaters you are expected to do
The only one I can’t finish with preparation is the 200 fly. I can roll out of bed and do a 400 Im or mile no problem but I probably would get dq if I swam the 200 fly rn. One time I swam the 2 fly at tyr pro and remember thinking I was gonna get dq the last 50 cause I was so out of shape. Finishing any other race is fine. Swimming every race at high level is the same effort
My Top 5:
1) 400 IM
2) 200 Free
3) 200 Fly
4) 200 Back
5) 800 Free
Fight me.
How is 200 free not on the list, it is the longest sprint in swimming other than 200 IM, the feeling of that 4th 50 is something I have never experienced in any other race in swimming. It is brutal
1.) 400IM
2.) 200 Fly
3.) 200 breast
4.) 500 Free
5.) 1650/1500 free
From swimming every event at least once at a meet these were the ones that were the most physically taxing and the hardest to do not only physically but mentally. No other event has made me feel the way I do after a 400IM
1) 400 IM
2) 200 Breast
3) 200 Fly
4) 800 Free
5) 200 Back
No mile?! 😧
@@Sockwell never swam it competitively in a meet so I can’t argue for or against it
@@bend1067 fair 🤝
5. 1500 Free (So long and hurts so bad after a 500, different type of pain.)
4. 200 Breast (Pullouts are a nightmare after the first 100 and your legs will be BURNING.)
3. 200 Back (Legs and arms completely dead the entire last 50, fun race but extremally hard.)
2. 200 Fly (Barely finish-able and fly is really hard to pace.)
1. 400 IM (No debate you are going to die every single time you swim it and if you make one mistake you will add like 5 seconds)
5. 200 fly-feel like your going to pass out at the 150 mark
4.200 bk-legs are in a grave after the race
3. 400 im Sc-atleast you have under waters
2. 1500-500 strong then a 1000 of pure pain
1. 400 im Lc-literally 400 im but no turns
I think the fact that not every swimmer could finish a 200fly, for me, always makes it the hardest.
of course they can if they swim ez and if they cant then there not that good
also i ounce swam 400m fly and im a backstroker
@@niriota173 maybe spend some more time on your spelling and grammar instead of your backstroke
1. 4IM
2. 2back
3. 2breast
4. Mile
5. 2fly
5. Mile
4. 400 free
3. 200 back
2. 200 fly
1. 400 IM
This is all based on how painful it is, the 400
Is only on there because of how you can’t cruise through it but it’s too long to sprint so you get stuck in this pure pain for 4-4:30 minutes.
I am shook. Why does nobody think the 1500 freestyle is the hardest. If I was at a swim meet, I would much rather swim the 400IM than the 1500 Free! 🤯
1.) long course 200 breast, that is pure pain and if you go out fast you just cant swim the last 100
2.) 400 IM the transition from fly to back is bad but that may jsut because I have the worst backstroke on the planet, that 100 breast Im ripping tho and then I have nothing left at the end
3.) 100 fly harder for me that the 200, 200 is more rythmic and the 100 is a lot more painful by the end than a 200 for me
4.) 200 free, just go out fast and die, I feel like if your feeling pretty good you feel like your flying home, just depends on the day really
5.) 200 IM, less painful 400 IM but honestly a little more intense but not as hard to finish stron tbh
5) 200 breast
4) 200 fly
3) 800 free
2) 400 im
1) 1500 free
The 400 im is understandably topping many people’s lists but I just can’t get over how goddamn long the mile is. You’re using the same muscles over and over and over for what feels like forever and there’s no other event where you get the same feelings. You get so hot and sometimes things that never hurt just start hurting in a way you’ve never felt before. After every mile I do it feels like I got punched in the gut. It’s also just much more uninteresting than the 400 im. The 400 im is really cool because you can really play with your strengths and weaknesses and that in my opinion makes it more enjoyable to swim. The mile is just the same shit for a stupidly long amount of time and yeah those are all the reasons that the 1500 free is the hardest event in swimming.
Gotta agree
A lot of people have put the 200 back pretty high and I’m kinda surprised. The 200 back is genuinely my favorite event to swim. It’s very difficult don’t get me wrong but I’m surprised to see all of these people who seem to dread swimming it as opposed to something like the 200 breast which I think is harder. That could be just because I’m ass at the 200 breast but I think it’s a lot less enjoyable than something like the 200 back which I’m seeing a lot more on people’s lists.
So glad you included the 200 back. Hate that. Hate it hate it hate it
As a sprinter, anything over 100 is no bueno👍
200 fly will forever be the hardest, atleast long course. I enjoyed the 400 IM, but I was a terrible breaststroker so that part was always the "rest" for me.
Those omega pads with nothing to keep you from slipping were the worst
1) 400 IM
2) 200 fly
3) 400 Free
4) 200 Breaststroke
5) 200 back
1) 400 I.M
2) 200 Fly (but kinda love it)
3) 1.500 Free
4) 200 Breast
5) 200 Back
5) 200m back
4) 800m free
3) 1500 free
2) 400m Im
1) 200m fly
I am a really bad fly swimmer so 400 Im could be 1
Any open-water and I’m going to drown in a second 🤣
1) 400 IM
2) 1500 free
3) 1650 free
4) 800 free
5) 200 Fly
1) 400IM
2) Mile
3) 200 Back
4) 800 Free
5) 200 fly
imma sneak a 6 in there the (100 free) it is so hard too finish
1. 4IM
2. 2back
3. 2breast (if you do it right)
4. The mile
5. 1000 free
5. 400 freestyle
4. 200 breaststroke
3 .200 fly
2. 1500 freestyle
1. 400 IM
I was a backstroker and IMer in my high school swim team. We swam yards, and most meets were SC. Never good enough for distance swimming so, here's my list:
5. 400 free
4. 200 free
3. 200 IM
2. 200 back
1. 400 IM
400 im is the hardest race. but the 200 free is the most difficult race to get right.
The most difficult individual event is 4 im long course but it does not compare to 8 free relay long course. That is the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life. Everybody gets so hyped up and you go out so fast and then your body just shuts down. All of us on our relay died we split like 56-102 😂😂
Spot on perfect list my man
The 400im is by far the most challenging event💀
Full disclaimer that I've never done distance (At least not in a pool)
5) Open Water swimming
4) 400 IM
3) 200 Fly
2) 200 Back
1) 200 IM, Maybe it's just me, but this event feels like holding 100 pace for 200 yards. I dread it much more than the 400 IM.
I Agree
5. 200 im
4 . 200 breast
3. 200 back(backstroker)
2. 200 Fly
1. 400 im
I hate switching stroke. Makes me feel bad transitioning
After vid edit.
I am a back/flyer but I swam my first 200 fly this fall. And I swam it wrong. I went out 1:00. Came home 1:16. Im surprised I decided to swim it again at my next meet.
The 200 back my favorite event also hurts. After I swam it last time I couldn't walk. I pulled myself out of the side and laid there.
But 400 im... coach told me she wanted me to swim it over the summer. Which happens to be my first LCM season. It was bad. I was able to recover a bit because my breast is really bad. 1:18 scy bad.
200 IM is light, especially in LCM. The mile and 800/1000 are definitely way more difficult than the 200IM
1:400im
2:200fly
3:200bk
4:200im
5:100fly
2. The swim leg in a long distance triathlon. Longer than the longest event on the list in the video by more than double, with the added stress of being close-packed with other swimmers kicking and climbing over you, and the mental game of wanting to be in a good position at the start of the bike.
1. Marathon swimming. Close to 3 times the swim from the Iron Man, and still keeping the pack swimming complications. Plus the added need to take on nutrition in the water on top of that.
1. The mile
2. 200 fly
3. 400 IM
4. 500 free
5. 200 Brest
I find the lack of 200 breast disturbing
5. 400 free (just a harder version of the 200 free and at the elite level you have to maintain ridiculous speed)
4. 1500 free (just physically and mentally taxing)
3. 200 breast (this one kills your legs and by the last 50 my lungs are dying)
2. 200 back (Phelps said it was the hardest event)
1. 400 IM (the undisputed king of pain)
You think 200 back is a leg driven race? That thing needs to be outta there-200 breaststroke is very close second to 4IM if you’re doing it right.
1). 200 fly
2). 1650 free
3). 400 IM
4). 1000, 800, 400 free
5). 200 free
(If you can’t tell I hate freestyle)
Favorite events:
1). 100 breast
2). 50 breast
3). 200 breast
4). 50 fly
5). 100 back
6). 200 IM
7). 200 back
After every 200 back find the closest chair I can find and sit till my legs can walk again
1. 200fl
2. 400im
3. 1650fr
4. 200bk
5. 800fr
the people who say that the distance events aren't actually physically demanding, then you are pacing way too slow.
1. 400 IM
2. 200 breast
3. 200 fly
4. 1500
5. 200 back
400IM, a taxing sprint event that masochists swim.
5) 200 fly
4) 500
3) 1000
2) 400 im
1) 1650
5) 400 IM (i dont train for it and it has freestyle)
4)1500 free (i dont like free)
3)800 free (free sucks)
2) 200 fly ( i cant pace myself and im really out of shape right now, if i wasnt out of shape it'd probably be no. 4)
1) 200 free ( it's FREE and its a game of seeing if you can kinda sprint it for the whole 200)
400 IM, 200 Fly, 200 Back, 200 IM, 100 Free when swam correctly 😁
High school swim from my experience and my teams:
Ain’t no one wanna do the 500 therefore
1. 500 Free
2. 200 IM
3. 200 Free
4. 100 Fly
5. Rest of 100s (back, breast, free)
1. 400 IM
2. Mile
3. 200 back
4. 500 free
5. 200 fly
am i the only person that enjoys the 2 back?
Feel like 200 free has to be in the top 5. You just need to go out fast and hope you don’t die. In the 200’s stroke, you can focus on being smooth to an extent. Not in the 200 free. In the 200 free, you’ve just gotta GO and pray that last 50 doesn’t hurt too much
the 400 free is just double the pain of the 200 imo
200 free scy or scm is not hard to just swim. Just swimming a 800/1000 free or 200 fly is infinitely more difficult. 200 free LCM sucks but still not at difficult as the others in his top 5
1. 400 IM, technically difficult, distance, need I say more
2. 50 free(or any 50), so highly technical, no room for error
3. 200 back, leg killer, tons of under water
4. 1650 mental strength
5. 1000 see 1650
5) 800 free
4) 1500 free
3)400 free
2) 200fly
1) 400 IM (LCM It just makes it so much harder.)
1) 400 IM
2) 1500 Free
3) 200 Back
4) 200 Fly
5) 200 Free
What if butterfly was not first in the IM how would that effect the race? Imagine a backwards IM
Take butterfly out of the 400 IM and I might have made NCAAs 🤣
1: 400 IM
2: 1500
3: 800
4: 200 fly
5: 200 breast
5. 200 I’m (kinda fun tho)
4. 500 free (do I need to explain)
3. 400 I’m ( the reason it is not higher is because of the next two)
2. 200 fly (we all know why)
1. 200 free ( I just don’t like it)
BTW this list is in SCY
200 breast. It’s so hard to race the back half of that race when your legs feel like jello.
I’ve also never done 400 IM LCM, I bet it’s different from SC… I actually kinda like 400 IM SCY and wish I had started swimming that event earlier.
5) 200 fly
4) 1500 free
3) 50 backstroke
2) 100 backstroke
1) 200 backstroke
i hate backstroke
It’s the 50 because you have to do it no breath
1) 500 free 2) 400 IM 3) 200 back 4) 800 free 5) 200 fly
Where would you put 200 Breast? Talk about legs and arm crying in pain, WOW! No over the water recovery, plus hypoxia from pullout. I'd put it #2, and put 800 in 6th.
Where my 800 and 1500 swimmers at
5. 800 Free/ 400 Free (same to me but also i just cant swim distance)
4. 200 Free
3. 200 Back
2. 1500 Free
1. 400 IM
5 400 free
4 800 free
3 1500
2 400 IM
1 2 fly (I physically cannot do 200 fly my ankles are designed to move outward and keeping them together for 200m is very hard for me
CHANGE MY MIND: 200 fly is the easiest 200 to swim (free, back, breast, and IM are harder)
1) 1500 2) 1000 3) 200 Breast 4) 200 IM 5) 100 Back
this is a bit different but mentally hardest events:
5. 200 back
4. 200 fly
3. 800 free
2. 400 im
1. 1500 free
For me:
5) 1500m LCM (boredom punctuated by pain)
4) 200 Fly SCY (so many walls that you cannot just plain give up)
3) 100 Fly LCM (so short you cannot just give up and declare "I'm a breaststroker")
2) 200 Fly LCM (faggedabout it!! This event makes the pool look like an ocean...it just sucks)
1) 400 IM (foreplay on the fly, smooth build in the back, sprint the breaststroke, die in freestyle and get passed by all the distance nerds)
My arms go numb in 200 breast because I basically pull my breastroke