How long does it take to swim 1 mile of breastroke?

When I was 23, I did a 3,000-meter breaststroke (long course) three times a year. My fastest was 36 minutes. That's 18 minutes for a mile. I didn't negative split. I held 1:18 per 100 for the middle 2500. I don't recommend it unless you have a lengthy song catalogue in your head.

Jeff's times are unreal. I can hold 1:18 per 100M LCM for 1X100 shaved and tapered if I'm lucky. I haven't swum over 400 breastsroke since college but for 400 SCY I can keep at 1:30 per 100. I plan to do an open water 1 mi. swim all breaststroke next summer so I can let you know how that comes out(unless I have a sudden attack of sanity before then.)

Aren't there some crazy swimmers around called "butternuts" who do lots of open water fly?

Well I'll be gobsmacked! Jeff, that is just disgustipating. If I had been swimming laps while you streaked by doing your 3000 I think I would have got out & quietly left & got drunk. I bet you then went up to any sprint butterfliers you knew and innocently remarked "I just did 3000 of my best stroke in 36min. What's your time for fly?"

Before I taught myself to swim freestyle, I swam the 1650 breaststroke. At the 1994 USMS Nationals, when I was 52, my time for the mile was 26:22.09. As Peter Cruise knows, my next goal is to do the mile all fly... -- mel

Why swim a mile (using any stroke)? You guys are nuts! Now if there were lots of :drink: at the end, I might consider it.

Before I taught myself to swim freestyle, I swam the 1650 breaststroke. At the 1994 USMS Nationals, when I was 52, my time for the mile was 26:22.09. As Peter Cruise knows, my next goal is to do the mile all fly... -- mel Don't make me cry, I can do the 1650 in around 23 minutes, free. I wouldn't mind trying to do the 1650 fly though, might be fun. I did do a 1000 IM last year just for fun, maybe this year I'll try the 1650 fly. Great, thanks for the poor idea that I'll never get out of my head.

Never tried it but did swim 22 miles crawl in 2 hours with the river current in the Saguenay River.

My guess is there are very few people here who have actually done a mile breaststroke nonstop, so you've got us beat pretty much by default! ... Jeff excluded, of course, but I bet he's not doing many 3,000 meter breasts for time these days!

Based on my current daily yardage of breastroke, I would say a mile would take me 7-8 months.