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

Based on my current daily yardage or breastroke, I would say a mile would take me 7-8 months.It would take a three year calender to get my time for 100yds of breaststroke.

I wouldnt recommend doing a mile of *** everyday because its bad on the knees.

My current view of breastroke is that it is a stroke I use to cool down or to get rest in between freestyle repeats. I also "use" it when swimming my now pitifull 100 meter I.M. I come out of the backstroke so dead that I hardly do the underwater pull out (the filipine it is called here) correctly and efficiently. However, in my group, if I want to I can still be faster than most. So basically I swim backstroke and *** for the 100 (in the future maybe a 200) I.M. In my previous life or even up to last year I hadn't noticed the "knee" issue in the breastroke. Now I can feel it slightly, as I age (56). If however I were in a situation in a lake or ocean I would probably use the *** to save myself. When doing 1,000 meters (maybe 3,000 next year) open water I use the *** every now and then to get a correct sighting of the buoys or whatever. billy fanstone (from way back when you couldn't have water over your head nor do the thing under water nowadays allowed).

It is, however, exactly one mile (66*80 = 5280 feet). Well, maybe they did have some logic in building an 80 foot pool!! I always wondered about that!

Well, maybe they did have some logic in building an 80 foot pool!! I always wondered about that! What? You didn't think a 26 2/3 yard pool made sense or somethin'? ;)

May be the contractor got drunk and it was ment to be 82.02099737532808 feet, which is 25 meters

I think I did a 66 lengths in an 80 foot pool (so this is longer than a true 1650) in about 30 minutes. I don't have much swimming background... this is not a particularly fast time, but I was also doing it just to finish strong, not fast. This was several years ago... before my knees really started to bug me. Now, I don't think I ever do more than 1200 yds *** in any one practice and that would be all broken up (like 6x200 - maybe 3x200 ***, some freestyle, and 3x200 *** again). And then the next day I'd probably have to avoid breaststroke after a set like that. :) Jeff's times are unreal...

I think I did a 66 lengths in an 80 foot pool (so this is longer than a true 1650) It is, however, exactly one mile (66*80 = 5280 feet).

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. I swim *** in-between free sets to break things up a bit...I never time myself in *** for fear of self-pity. Shoot, I can't even swim a mile of free that fast right now! :rofl: Jeff, you were an animal! :notworthy:

We swam what we call a metric mile 1650 yards = 1508 meters. I now swim the odd 1 length of breaststroke 1 dive glide and 2 pulls, no kick, thats it.