The preliminary Top 10 listings for the 2011 short-course yards season, which ran 6/1/10 - 5/31/11, are now available. Please check for inaccuracies and email Mary Beth Windrath, the National Swims Administrator, with potential corrections BY JULY 30. You can also email me or send me a PM.
I found the following sequence kind of intriguing (these are based on the 10th times in the men's 40-44 age group, for anyone who doesn't know):
event 2010 2011 delta
50 free 21.83 22.24 +0.41
100 free 47.98 49.12 +1.14
200 free 1.47.53 1.50.79 +3.26
500 free 4.56.52 5.09.96 +13.44
1000 free 10.45.64 10.50.86 +5.22
1650 free 18.26.46 18.27.70 +1.24
The 500 free seems like an outlier, but I wonder about the general trend of increasing with distance (which seems intuitive) but then decreasing? I might have expected that in relative terms -- delta expressed as a percentage of time -- but absolute terms? Is it just this age-group/gender? (Don't really have time to check others right now but maybe later...)
Maybe distance folk are just tougher than the rest of us.
I found the following sequence kind of intriguing (these are based on the 10th times in the men's 40-44 age group, for anyone who doesn't know):
event 2010 2011 delta
50 free 21.83 22.24 +0.41
100 free 47.98 49.12 +1.14
200 free 1.47.53 1.50.79 +3.26
500 free 4.56.52 5.09.96 +13.44
1000 free 10.45.64 10.50.86 +5.22
1650 free 18.26.46 18.27.70 +1.24
The 500 free seems like an outlier, but I wonder about the general trend of increasing with distance (which seems intuitive) but then decreasing? I might have expected that in relative terms -- delta expressed as a percentage of time -- but absolute terms? Is it just this age-group/gender? (Don't really have time to check others right now but maybe later...)
Maybe distance folk are just tougher than the rest of us.
