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

Tom Boettcher regularly does the Big Shoulders 5k all fly. It isn't nuts. It's what you choose to do, and practice. One of my lake swimming buds does Big Shoulders all breaststroke. She is significantly faster than I swimming it freestyle. :applaud:

18 mins for a mile. Damn. That's unreal! Hell, my 1200m workouts take me an hour to do. You guys make me want to sit in the corner and go fetal.

27 minutes. No more no less.

45 minutes including a quick rest after each 250.I usually do 2 miles in 90 though and I would hope that the 1st is a bit faster than the 2nd.

God Bless our Masters Swimmers Everywhere, for Every Reason

For me ,waaaaay too long! My free OW time is 27 min.

For those of you that are Butternut curious, there is a website out there for it: www.grinswim.org/.../butternuts I want to do this when I grow up:D

a 35min mile in breaststroke sounds pretty good to me. my knees are hurting just thinking about it. as for the fly comments... Tom Boettcher is a wimp! Vicki Keith "Vicki came out of swimming retirement, and spent 63 hours and 40 minutes in Lake Ontario, completing 80.2 kilometres butterfly" (Actually Tom is pretty cool. His web article "Learning to Fly" helped me a lot on my quest to learn fly. In terms of both technique and inspiration.)

Just did an open-water swim for fun, held by a local triathlon group as a training run. Course was .6 miles per loop. I did the second loop breaststroke just to compare it to my freestyle, for fun. Free lap was 20 minutes, *** lap was 24. Very choppy, wavy and lots of current that day. Drank lots of sea water on the freestyle loop, but swimming breaststroke through all the waves was heavenly!

I swam in a 132 ft. (44 yds.) pool in England. You could do an even 220, 440, 880, and mile in that one. And most lap swimmers there do the beautiful stroke.