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 think most of the good times have been in freestyle not butterfly or backstroke or breastroke and eventually all three will slow down in their mid 50's. I remember one master swimming doing a 1:05 in 100 yard butterfly doing the same event around 60 at 1:18. Laura is interesting because another ex-swimmer of national ability in her group Lynn Bell swims 100 meter breastroke and fly about 15 seocnds slower than she did in the 1970's. Maybe, because Laura started back working out in their 30's versus Bell taking up swimming again more recently that she is able to swim times faster or closer to her early days.
I think most of the good times have been in freestyle not butterfly or backstroke or breastroke and eventually all three will slow down in their mid 50's. I remember one master swimming doing a 1:05 in 100 yard butterfly doing the same event around 60 at 1:18. Laura is interesting because another ex-swimmer of national ability in her group Lynn Bell swims 100 meter breastroke and fly about 15 seocnds slower than she did in the 1970's. Maybe, because Laura started back working out in their 30's versus Bell taking up swimming again more recently that she is able to swim times faster or closer to her early days.
