best 1500m free times

I just did around 27:45..., if I remember right, at the last meet. This is in an SCM meet. Looks like that converts to 28:15 LCM. A month and a half before that, I did 29:50..., also SCM.. that was my first 1500 ever. I've been pushing working on my cardio, and my coach has been helping me improve my stroke efficiency. For now, for the level I'm at, I seem to do okay with pacing myself. For me, pacing is ... go as fast as the cardio allows.

How does it convert to short course yards? My 1650 is around 26:00. I hate doing 1650, it is boring!

Well, theres' a website that I use for conversions: www.swiminfo.com/.../conversions.asp But... some conversion don't seem right, cause 26 minutes in SCY 1650 converts to some 23 minutes in LCM... I seriously doubt taht it's that much faster swimming that discance in the LCM pool. Usually LCM is slower. Maybe someone else knows something about this that I don't fully understand yet? Help out here, please! As for the incentive to swim 1650... I keep thinking of all the calories I'm burning ;) Big incentive for me there!

That can't be right. I was figuring my 1500 time would be around 30 minutes because of no walls to push off of and get a big boost. I started to swim 1500 last summer, but between the swim lessons, the two armed backstrokers and everything else I gave up. It was too tedious.

I played around with the conversion and it looks like around 27 minutes long course 1500 would go with 26;30 short course yards 1650. That would probably be more correct.

I went a 20:22 in LCM a few years ago....my coach had me swimming all summer long and it was nothing under 800 yards at a time, then you have sets that get way up there in yardage. It was real boring, but I would so do it again in a heartbeat. It was well worth winning state. It payed off big time. Good Luck. Kel, come to think of it, it was more than a few years ago ;)

if i can get under 25 mins by this time next year i'll be one happy swimmer..tried again this morning about 30-31 mins i think appx.i do find myself pacing myself a bit too slow at the start ..maybe thats where i could improve,by the last 250 metres im as fast if not faster than the start...hmmmm.....:confused:

Well I guess that I am going to be the slowest person to post their 1500m time here.It is 40 mins,plus or minus 30 secs.I 'm able to do 50m in 56 secs and 100m in 1 min 5 secs,but after that I slow down so much.I actually swim 4 times a week.doing about 2000m each session so I feel as if I am doing enough training,but I guess that I have some fundamental flaws that need to be ironed out.I breathe bilaterally as I feel that it balances my stroke.Do the rest of you 1500m swimmers breathe that way or every two strokes??I wish that I lived nearer Gareth Eckley from Wales who posts on here.He has given me a lot of good advice but I guess that I really need a "coach" that can actually see where my fault are when I am swimming.I did join a Masters club in England during the summer but there was only one coach and 40 swimmers.He was just concerned with the "elite" swimmers,so I left as I could do just as well on my own.I have always fancied going to a swim clinic in the USA in the summer.Do people feel that they can learn a lot in a week to be able to change their swimming style permanently?? Mark Varney

Originally posted by mark_varney47 I 'm able to do 50m in 56 secs and 100m in 1 min 5 secs,but after that I slow down so much. That is a smoking second half for your 100! ;) Your mile time is appropriate for your 50 and 100 times, so you don't slow down any more than everyone else does. Originally posted by mark_varney47 Do people feel that they can learn a lot in a week to be able to change their swimming style permanently?? Three things I learned during age-group: 1) Less than ideal technique will have more immediate results, but will limit how far you can improve. 2) Doing the right stroke will take more work, but will let you go to your maximum potential. 3) When switching from "wrong" to "right" technique, you are going to get a lot slower before you get faster, as your body gets used to doing something different. But if you have the faith to stick with it, it will pay off in the long run.

My personal best in the 1650 yard free is just over 16 minutes. I think times for the 1650 yard and 1500 meter short course are very comparable (1650 yards = 1509 meters). I haven't swum it lately, but could probably go about 18:30 now. 16:00 seems pretty fast, but remember there are people who can swim well under 15:00!