So do other people feel diappointed with their times as adult versus as an 18 year old or 20 year old. I understand that I was out of swimming for almost 26 years. And I didn't practice that much during the first 2 years because I was badly out of shape and had to changes jobs and for about 9 months my work didn't workout that much with swimming, only swimming a couple of days at week. I guest we are not that young and many of us who take a very long break from swimming and are middle age are going to be slower. This is workout times according to a pace clock.
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I understand some people do better. But if one looks at nationals qualfying times for 45-49 women they are similar to A age group times for 11-12 year old girls. In fact when I was 12 years old I swam a 44.0 butterfly. I clock around a 1:00 a couple times one I swam very slow and another I was tired. I know that some workout times can be as much as 10 seconds off depending upon the circumstances. But if I swimming 50 seconds at age 45 at a 50 yard butterfly versus 30.0 at 19 years old that is like a 20 second difference. Granted I rarely swim fly more than a 100 yards now. And the most was probably300 yards but that is a big slow down. I swam a 46 in breastroke in workout. I probably was a litle tired, but if I swim between 40 to 43 seconds in a race, I also did that at 12 years old.
I understand some people do better. But if one looks at nationals qualfying times for 45-49 women they are similar to A age group times for 11-12 year old girls. In fact when I was 12 years old I swam a 44.0 butterfly. I clock around a 1:00 a couple times one I swam very slow and another I was tired. I know that some workout times can be as much as 10 seconds off depending upon the circumstances. But if I swimming 50 seconds at age 45 at a 50 yard butterfly versus 30.0 at 19 years old that is like a 20 second difference. Granted I rarely swim fly more than a 100 yards now. And the most was probably300 yards but that is a big slow down. I swam a 46 in breastroke in workout. I probably was a litle tired, but if I swim between 40 to 43 seconds in a race, I also did that at 12 years old.
