BSS NEW YEAR’S MEET
- Saturday, Jan 2, 2021
- Jacksonville, FL
- Results on MM: ‘Bolles School Sharks New Years Meet’
The pro group with Gator Swim Club raced yesterday in a one-session meet in Jacksonville, Fla., with the Bolles School Sharks. Among competitors on Saturday morning was four-time Olympian Ryan Lochte, who swam the 200 IM and 200 back.
Lochte, who has been deep in winter training (he posted to social media on Friday that his training group at UF did an 8400-meter workout to kick off the New Year), clocked a 2:03.37 in the 200 IM to kick off his day of racing. For reference, his best time in this event in the 2020 calendar year was a 2:00.05 from February.
In the 200 back, Lochte won by over 10 seconds, producing a 2:06.08. The 36-year-old only swam one official 200 back in 2020, going 2:03.83 in November at the U.S. Open site in Sarasota.
Finishing behind Lochte in the 200 IM were his GSC pro group teammates Tom Peribonio (2:04.95) and Grant Sanders (2:06.50). Peribonio would go on to win the 400 IM (4:33.40).
Drew Loy earned a lifetime best in the 100 fly yesterday, breaking a minute for the first time with a 55.99. His old best, from 2015, was a 1:01.65. Loy was a fantastic mid-distance freestyler and IMer in college at Ohio State, and his yards best in this event is also pre-college, from 2015, at 50.96.
Loy also won the 100 free (51.91) and took second in the 200 free (1:57.74).
OTHER NOTABLE SWIMS
- Julian Hill, training with GSC as his Arizona State program is redshirting the 2020-21 NCAA season, won the 200 free (1:53.98) and 400 free (4:02.43). He also took third in the 100 free (53.38).
- Jonathan Tybur of GSC posted wins in both breaststrokes, going 1:03.68 in the 100 and 2:19.29 in the 200.
- GSC’s Enzo Martinez Scarpe won the 50 free, clocking a 23.51.
Why you guys hating on the MVP. Ryan is going to swim 7 events go 10 pbs, 7 gold medals, breaks his WRs and become better than Phelps once and for all at 36.
I think Ryan is overtraining. He’s too old to handle the same practices he did 10 years ago.
Was thinking the same thing, as I am sure many are.. At this point, at 36, does the “honest work” need to be done? The reality is he needs to be sharp, maintain muscular power just as much if not more than muscular endurance. The decades of “building the base” have not disappeared. My only hope is that we do not see a reoccurrence of the past, when it was volume & strong man = overtraining. Granted, he’s not doing the strongman stuff, but this is in the similar vain of that train of thought.
At his age, and given the events he tends to do, getting the correct level of training is probably tricky. It seemed like he under trained (under Marsh) heading into 2016.
I wonder how many meters Michael Andrew swam on New Year’s Day.
8,400 is around 3 days of training for MA unless he’s changed some aspects of his training recently
dad bod lochte swam 1:57. Rad bod Lochte going 1:55 at trials
What I’m thinking man. He will be at least 1:56 I could see him go 1:55 if he’s on.
I think him and Carson Foster make the team. Both go 1:55 at Trials
Please be careful Ryan. That double was the death of you in London.
I recall the end of “Lochte time” and it was around the 350m mark of the 4IM in London.
Honestly, who still believes this guys will make the Olympic team?
It doesn’t really look like he’s been getting better since 2019, in the contrary.
I do. Cut 6 secs and he’s right there
I saw the recent pic of him and he looks like slim and fit. I believe he can make it.
I guess I believe he *can* make it. I don’t expect him to, however.
Good a shot as anybody.
Pretty sure he has a worse shot than Chase there Sam
I can agree that only Chase has a better chance, good point
I would disagree that he has as good of a shot as anybody.
In the 200 IM specifically, I’d say he has a worse shot than Carson Foster and Chase Kalisz, and a slightly worse chance than Andrew Seliskar. I’d say he has a similar chance to Sam Stewart or Shaine Casas. I’d say he’s got a better shot than Josh Prenot, and probably Michael Andrew (the top American in the event last season), based on MA’s ISL performance. We’ll see if MA gets his training figured out.
Wow Braden, I think you’re really selling Ryan short – similar chance to Sam Stewart??
And Carson has a best of 1:57, correct? Ryan is easily right there…
That’s Carson’s best from last year though, he’ll have had a year training at texas by the time trials come around so I’m thinking he’ll be faster than that. We also saw how well Carson did in the 400IM SCY a couple months ago, if his 200 IM is around 1:56 Lochte may have a much harder time. That being said I would love to see lochte swimming faster than he did in Rio in the 2IM
I mean he won nations in a 1:57 in the 200 IM back in 2019 right? And did you see him then? Was not exactly rockin’ the abs from before. If he can do a 1:57 then and has been cranking out 8K workouts consistently for the last year and he still has 6 months to go before he tapers then yea…he could do it. He could easily get down to 1:55 range and that is absolutely in play for making the team. Honestly, the Olympics getting delayed a year (keeping in mind this is assuming they are still going to happen in 2021) was probably the best thing that could have happened for Ryan.
Braden really? I think you know how the Gators train in season look at E. Beisel for example she trained so hard and always dropped a good taper and made it every time.
I think y’all are all forgetting what it means to be 36 years old. Yes, Ryan Lochte at 36 is better than 99.99% of swimmers anywhere will be at any age. But he’s competing against that .01% at the Olympic Trials.
I know all of the middle-aged coaches out there WANT to believe that you can be at peak athletic performance at 36 years old…but that’s just not the reality of the situation.
“Hi, my name’s Ervin.”
I agree, but I think he has a better chance than Sam Stewart. It would take the best swim from him to make the Olympic team.
How is casas less likely? Fastest in country in 200 yards this year
Foster has potential but what has he won?
Casas is less likely because the 200 IM final comes 2 races after the 200 back final. Granted, if he winds up skipping the 200 back, I think that would change my projection, but…the 200 back is a lot less crowded right now than the 200 IM. To make the team in the 200 back he basically has to get through Jacob Pebley (who is swimming pretty well, granted). To medal, he’s gotta get through…an aging Irie? Larkin, who hasn’t confirmed if he’s choosing the 200 back or the 200 IM?
The 200 IM field domestically above I laid out – it’s thick. Gets even worse internationally with Wang, Seto, Qin…
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Are u sure CF doesn’t swim the 200 back as well? He is top notch there too
Possible but his 200 IM has improved a lot more the last couple of years than his 200 back. His 200 back is a 1:57 which while good, doesn’t stand a chance of making the olympic team, even if he improves by a full second. His 200 IM however is competitive where he is right now, if he drops into a 1:56 then it’d be very hard for multiple people to beat him
Really wanna see MIchael Andrew thrive
Even in his prime, he had a tendency to look terrible in-season. There were a lot of meets where if you’d never heard the name Lochte, you’d never guess that that guy could make an Olympic team, let alone be one of the sport’s greats.
Does that mean he’s in a great spot to make the team? No. But it does mean that seeing an older Lochte look awful in season is not the red flag it would be for other swimmers of his caliber.
Main reason he has a history of being awful in season is that Troy never let them wear a tech suit! Is that still happening this weekend!
A key question, this ☝️
A tech suit doesn’t take you from a 4:21 or worse in-season 400 IM to a 4:05.
Look at it this way. In the lead-up to the ’11 Worlds (where Lochte went 1:54.00 remember) he was slower than 2:03.37 five different times. Now, granted 4 of those times were in prelims, and I don’t expect him to go 1:54, but a time in January is hardly indicative of disaster from him.
Gregg Troy is not giving this guy a break. From the looks of it he’s doing more “honest work” than in the lead up to Rio.
Marsh vs Troy!?!
If he makes a he Olympic team it will be the most impressive taper I’ve ever seen (gives his history with taper and age, that’s entirely possible)
Greatness finds a way.
I don’t know. There’s nothing he’s done recently to suggest he has a 1:56 IM in him and itay take a 1;55 to make the team.