Geek.......somehow I think your not exagerating with that :55 interval, if I swam in the suit that Gull sent a picture of you in on another thread I'd be in a hurry to!
By the way......best I've seen was Kirk Anderson at Cal back in the early 80s swimming 100 x 100s on 1:00!
Paul,
Hey, here's a thought:
Kirk works out at Greenwood A.C. with "the Good Smith" and Bobby H. lives in Evergreen next to you, Evil One. Let's see if you can get them together for a showdown.
Gull:
I think we had this discussion before in July 2005. Mike Brunner is another swimmer in the 10,000 club to join Bobby Hacket. Mike went 10 X 1000 on a 10 minute interval and lived to tell about it. A lot of those types of wrokouts are in the book "Four Champions and One Gold Medal" by Chuck Warner.
I remember a set that Brian Goodell and Bobby Hacket did at the Olympic training camp in 1976. It was 15 X 100 on the 1:05 Long Course. They had to go 95% effort. I remember I posted the splits on one of Andy's swim blough posts back in July 2005.
What he was "on" was an unprecedented distance program growing up swimming for Sherm Shavor at Arden Hills (I showed up for one of their practices over Xmas in 1978; 10 x 500 swim, 10 x 500 pull and I lasted about 10 minutes), then a regime at Cal that over Xmas during those days include 3 x 10,000 meter workouts per day.
Paid off pretty well for him......think he a was 7th in the 1500 at the 84' Trials (and just broke a couple of USMS 45-49 records last May).
Also paid off well for Jeff Float who came out of the same program and was on the legendary 800 free relay that was the upset winner overt Germany in 84'......one of the best races of all times!
Guys a friggin animal!
Rich.......I think Kirk would eat him alive right now, from what I hear Bobby hasn't swam much since he retired!
Paul:
Thanks for sharing with us the story about Arden Hills. You have to be a friggin animal to last those workouts in the 50 Meter Jungle. Mike Burton and Debbie Meyer would probably agree with you.
Originally posted by Paul Smith
By the way......best I've seen was Kirk Anderson at Cal back in the early 80s swimming 100 x 100s on 1:00!
Whatever you're on, I bet it's expensive.
I would have to see this with my own eyes to believe it.
If somebody is capable of swimming at this level (100 x 100 on 1:00 coming in on :54) they should be able to knock out a few 1650's at 14-15 minutes without flinching, right?
"I would have to see this with my own eyes to believe it."
I swam with Bobby under Joe Bernal's Gator Club when it was based out of Fordham Prep School in The Bronx. Bobby regularly did sets that averaged a minute pace per hundred. If he didn't swim around you, he swam over you.
The tightest intervals at that time were something like (25 or 30) 100's on 1:10 for the rest of slow people. I can't quite remember, but we were doing well over 10,000 yards a day.
