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Coming off of an Olympic season where she put much of her focus on the 200 IM, NCAA icon Alex Walsh decided to take a break from training for the 200 IM this season. Working more on her breaststroke and speed, Walsh saw the fruits of her labor pay off both in short course and long course. But after the US Nationals where she won the 200 IM but didn’t put up a perfect race, Walsh is now ready to put a bit more emphasis on the 200 IM again moving into World Championships.
Can anyone point me to the interview where this “dulling the knife” comments comes up? Keep seeing it thrown around on here but not the actual interview
Google alex walsh “dulling the knife” for the article
She shared it during a media availability call last year when explaining why she was dropping the 400 IM.
The complete video of that call has since been mysteriously scrubbed though… 😬💀
I think she’s also mentioned in perhaps the first Unfiltered Waters podcast she did about how after Tokyo she saw on SwimSwam a commenter challenging her to win both the 4IM and 2IM at the next games. Said it was before McIntosh came onto the scene, and I might be remembering wrong, mentioned how she wanted to focus on the 2IM.
yes i remember that! i think that, had she gotten the eastin record, that could have motivated her to pursue it farther, but she never really liked it
Alex is class act and I hope she drops time she should focus on the 400 Im again and add 200 free and do the relay.
I hate to jump on this train but I wonder if now that she’s graduated maybe it’s time to consider exploring other programs…?
For example..?
Honestly you know who had a great IM group was Stanford…. But obviously a lot of unknowns out there rn
A&M with Blaire
She has a sister who competes nearby
This is what happens when you let the inmates run the asylum.
“But coach, I don’t want to swim the 400 IM this season.”
The Joseph Stalin approach:
“Suck it up, buttercup.”
Rule with an iron fist.
What about when the warden is telling the inmate they don’t need to swim the 400 IM? 😵💫
Wasn’t Todd in support of her dropping it?
I mean, she could do 4 IM practices for an aerobic base and still not race it. Look how well that’s working for Torri Huske
Yep she could. But Todd was wanting her to embark on this “sprint revolution” if I’m understanding correctly. Her 50s and 100s were great at NCAA’s and all her 200s were a little off. I think she was working on sprint breastroke a lot for the relays
Sprint revolution 🥲
At the 2021 trials, she was a 31.9 backstroke split – cut to last week and she’s 32.9. I’m definitely hoping she can get down to a 2:07, maybe even 2:06 when racing McIntosh
It would be great to see her go a PB in this event, I think her last PB was in 2022?
Yah but her DQ’d time was also a PB before it wasn’t
Right but that doesn’t count as she didn’t swim that race legally
right but I’m just saying that technically she’s been recently capable of going a best time even if it didn’t count
she’s giving swimswam commenters a treat with this one
LOL!
So it’s back to 400 IM training to build up the aerobic base.