I believe history was made yesterday at the Southwest Zone SCM Championships. Read the story here at www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../10403.asp the time was just .08 off the World Record that Fred Bousquet set at the 2004 NCAA Championships the year before he went his historic :18.74 50 Yard Free. What interesting is that Nick did a long morning workout and swam two events (200 Free & 200 IM) before he swam the 50 Meter Free.
I believe this is the first time a USMS registered master swimmer has set a USA Swimming American Record in a sanctioned USMS masters meet or any USA sanctioned meet. He broke Anthony Ervin's record by .03 that was set at the 2000 NCAA Championships. It will be interesting to see if he will be credited with the record because it was sanctioned only by USMS and not USA swimming according to the swim info article. With our new dual affiliation guidelines it should not be a problem. It does meet the FINA requirements because it was done in a masters meet but unfortuately it was not a FINA World Record but will be a FINA Masters World Record. It will be interesting to see how this stacks up against the World Cup Meets in both the 2005 USA National and 2005 FINA SCM World rankings.
I happen to witness a swimming performance very similar to this back in 1983 at the USMS Long Course Nationals at the new IUPUI Natatorium. There was a swimmer named Kevin DeForest that swam out of University of Missouri that swam a :22.59 which tied a Robin Leamy performance swam a couple weeks prior at the US Nationals in Clovis, CA in 1983 winning the 50 Free. Kevin missed the World Record held by Robin Leamy at :22.54 by .05 set in 1981 at Brown Deer which was the same meet Mary T is famous for. Kevin was ranked 3rd in the world that year. Kevin DeForest still has the USMS and FINA Masters World record that was set back in 1983 and its quite possibly the oldest USMS pool record standing.
Judging from Nick Brunelli's swim this past weekend, Kevin's record is in danger of being broken very soon if he happens to enter a USMS LC sanctioned meet. I hope that FINA and USA swimming count this swim as an overall record and not just a masters record. Out of this something crazy could be that you can't set an American Record in a Masters meet only in a USA sanctioned meet and FINA non masters meet. I wonder if anyone ever thought this was possible when swimming USMS and USA swimmers together in a dually sanctioned meet.
I've experienced this
It doesn't happen often
But sometimes I'd rip a really fast time in practice or a meet.
One reason maybe those type of meets have less pressure.
but I've also swum really fast after lifting weights.
Ande
Originally posted by Rich Abrahams
One aspect of Brunelli's awesome swims that has not been discussed here is how fast he swam (within.05 of the world record) while in the midst of heavy training. I believe he was lifting heavy and even worked out the morning of the meet.
Just this last year I had a similar experience with going fast during heavy training and then only going .01 faster in two events at nationals, fully tapered. I know this phenomenon has happened to many others as well. I recall Jenny Thompson doing a pr several years ago in the midst of very heavy training.
Are these things just flukes or does the conventional wisdom re tapers need to be reexamined? Do track athletes taper the same way swimmers do? Certainly, if you coach Nick Brunelli you've got to think about adjusting some assumptions.
I've experienced this
It doesn't happen often
But sometimes I'd rip a really fast time in practice or a meet.
One reason maybe those type of meets have less pressure.
but I've also swum really fast after lifting weights.
Ande
Originally posted by Rich Abrahams
One aspect of Brunelli's awesome swims that has not been discussed here is how fast he swam (within.05 of the world record) while in the midst of heavy training. I believe he was lifting heavy and even worked out the morning of the meet.
Just this last year I had a similar experience with going fast during heavy training and then only going .01 faster in two events at nationals, fully tapered. I know this phenomenon has happened to many others as well. I recall Jenny Thompson doing a pr several years ago in the midst of very heavy training.
Are these things just flukes or does the conventional wisdom re tapers need to be reexamined? Do track athletes taper the same way swimmers do? Certainly, if you coach Nick Brunelli you've got to think about adjusting some assumptions.
