Turned 50 yesterday, so I tried to swim a 50 sec 100 free. The best I could do was 52 with fins. Who has tried this without fins and been able to match their age? I think it's a good challenge. I suppose this feat could be done as early as mid 40's for some, or very few.
I'm perhaps missing the point of this whole challenge...but then again I am 30. A 50 is too short/fast to be impressive, and I am about 22 years away from the 100.
Can you do 50 in all form strokes, LCM?
Not so easy - check the backstroke and breaststroke TT times: www.usms.org/.../toptenlist.php. And our Australian TT: www.portal.aussi.org.au/.../ranking.php
Make it six seconds per year and it gets a tad easier. Someone 50 would need to swim a 5:00.6 seconds; really?!? Now you’re making it too easy. I was hoping to see you shoot for the 3:45 500SCY.
Swimming times will degenerate geometrically with age, so using a straight line approach to estimate a relationship between age groups may be misleading. Also, outliers such as Rick Colella and Laura Val would further skew this relationship.
USMS Meet Results Database Rankings
If I did this correctly, here is a list of 99 men ages 60 and above who have swum their age or better in 2013 - 2014 SCY season.
Looks like I didn't get it to send.
Go to Meet Results Database Rankings.
Change Season to 2013 - 2014
Fill in age 60 through 99
Change Display Top: to 100
First name should be Doug Martin age 60, 51.33 in the 100 free
Number 99 should be Carl Selles age 67, 1:01.16
The oldest to do 1:00 is Tom Landis at age 72 (1:00.76)
How do we do 500's ?
How about five seconds per year of age? Dave Radcliff first made it at age 73 with his 5:57 (73 * 5 = 365 seconds or 6:05).
Make it six seconds per year and it gets a tad easier. Someone 50 would need to swim a 5:00.