The main reason that women's breastroke drop from a cut off of 1:20 in 1993 versus 1:17 in the 100 yard for the top ten times is that a different generation is a little faster than those that swam in the 1960's as kids. So the person who was top ten at 1:17 this year, swam faster than last year. The national qualifying time was 1:27 which was 10 seconds slower and as you stated Matt, this is a three year average and it takes time for this to drop. On the other hand, the 200 yard is a lot slower for qualifying times because us masters have trouble swimming good 200 swims outside of freestyle. As for what the time was in 1993 for 100 yard breastroke for national qualfying I don't know. I just play around the computer and look at the preceding top 10 times going back in time. However, I'm not currently able to find this. I also think that 100 yard fly for 45 to 49 women drop from 1:10 to 1:07 during the same time period.
The times are faster now for the 45 to 49 year old women for different reasons. More of them workout as kids when they were younger and those born in the latter part of the 1950's did heavier mileage and many started masters in either the 19 to 24 old age which people around my age had to wait a few years to do or the 25 to 29 age group or in the two 30 something age groups. Some of them like me waited until there 40's to start again. And too me a 1:14 butterfly is a good time since I stilll not able to break the 1:30 mark now in fly. But the top time swimmers in my age group are heading toward a 1:06, 100 yard fly which is a big improvement from 1:14. As for the boomer thing, I thing that we are almost two different generations. Those born in 1946 to 1953 swam when things were different than those born in 1954 to 1963. Those born in 1963 did heavly yardage and did grab starts or track starts from early ages. They did not start pre-grab start or when there were no goggles. And many of you that are in masters know what type of National times you had back them I didn't know how they were based. I just know that the top ten has gotten faster overtime.
The times are faster now for the 45 to 49 year old women for different reasons. More of them workout as kids when they were younger and those born in the latter part of the 1950's did heavier mileage and many started masters in either the 19 to 24 old age which people around my age had to wait a few years to do or the 25 to 29 age group or in the two 30 something age groups. Some of them like me waited until there 40's to start again. And too me a 1:14 butterfly is a good time since I stilll not able to break the 1:30 mark now in fly. But the top time swimmers in my age group are heading toward a 1:06, 100 yard fly which is a big improvement from 1:14. As for the boomer thing, I thing that we are almost two different generations. Those born in 1946 to 1953 swam when things were different than those born in 1954 to 1963. Those born in 1963 did heavly yardage and did grab starts or track starts from early ages. They did not start pre-grab start or when there were no goggles. And many of you that are in masters know what type of National times you had back them I didn't know how they were based. I just know that the top ten has gotten faster overtime.
