Hi usms swim friends,
I'm working on a new swim faster faster article and I wanted to gather a little data first
here's my questions:
In your 2 or 3 best events
what are your lifetime best times?
how old were you when you swam them?
what year was that?
what are your best times in those events for each masters age group you've been in?
here's an example of what I'm looking for
Ande Rasmussen
50 scy free
1985 22 20.4
(25 - 29) 1991 28 20.5
(30 - 34) 1995 33 20.9
(35 - 39) can't find a time
(40 - 44) 2004 40 22.44
thanks in advance to for participating in this
I look forward to reading your replies
Ande
PS feel free to email them to me if you don't want to post them here
AndeRasmussen@aol.com
Fortress:
I LOVE that new avatar! Is that your youngest?
400 IM? I NEVER swam it as a kid. I was a die hard sprinter as a kid. Nothing over a 100. And I only swam 200s (and the 500 FR a couple of times) after some major kicking and screaming. I swam 400 IM once as an adult and by some fluke ended up w/a top 10 in the world masters. (Not many people must have swam it that year.) :rofl: So, there's nothing to compare it to.
Kristina:
How'd your coach let you get away with that?!?! I swam the same events almost every meet: 100/200 back, 100/200fly, 200/400 IM, maybe 50/100 free if I was bored. Maybe breaststroke once a year during mid-season.(Never ever swam a 500 or 1650 though. Managed to escape that.) No itsy bitsy little 50s or 100 IMs when I grew up in the rough, tough days of AAU 1970's intensity. You lucked out.
Glad you're trying the 400 IM now. Very brave. I would sooner drink poison.
P.S. I'd take your 2:18 200 IM. I think that would easily land me in the Top 10 in my more elderly age group.
Fortress:
I LOVE that new avatar! Is that your youngest?
400 IM? I NEVER swam it as a kid. I was a die hard sprinter as a kid. Nothing over a 100. And I only swam 200s (and the 500 FR a couple of times) after some major kicking and screaming. I swam 400 IM once as an adult and by some fluke ended up w/a top 10 in the world masters. (Not many people must have swam it that year.) :rofl: So, there's nothing to compare it to.
Kristina:
How'd your coach let you get away with that?!?! I swam the same events almost every meet: 100/200 back, 100/200fly, 200/400 IM, maybe 50/100 free if I was bored. Maybe breaststroke once a year during mid-season.(Never ever swam a 500 or 1650 though. Managed to escape that.) No itsy bitsy little 50s or 100 IMs when I grew up in the rough, tough days of AAU 1970's intensity. You lucked out.
Glad you're trying the 400 IM now. Very brave. I would sooner drink poison.
P.S. I'd take your 2:18 200 IM. I think that would easily land me in the Top 10 in my more elderly age group.
