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
Jeff is an oddity, but the thing is, he's incredible at breastroke and pretty good at back stroke
ie he went 53.7 in the 100 *** and 50.8 in the 100 back
though he cleans up the back sprint events in masters
tracey caulkins swam every stroke well,
katie swims every stroke well too, give her a very well rounded IM
michael phelps has a very good breastroke but it's his weakest when you compare it to his other 3
my breastroke is tolerable
in a college quadrathlon in '85 i did a 50 *** in 27.6
I'd be hard pressed to do one under 30 now
i think my best *** split in the 200 IM was a 32.5, 34.6 as a master
I tend to do better when I do some kicking and a lot of technique work
it's rare to find swimmers who are great at both *** and back
ande
No. It's going to take more than a couple examples to convince me that the back-*** super combo is not an anomoly. Even Jeff describes it as an "oddity." I'm sure you have more examples in that encyclopediac brain. :bow: I guess there's Tracey Caulkins off the top of my head. And I'm sure there are some elite IMers that are proficient at both like Katie Hoff. But, apart from the super elite, on this forum and in my own more limited swimming experience and observations, back and breaststroke just typically don't go together. (I know the Raz can do quadrathlons.) That's one reason we have a lot of breaststroke haters and backstroke haters on the forum. (Sorry, Allen, I know you don't like that "hate" word. I use it loosely.)
Jeff is an oddity, but the thing is, he's incredible at breastroke and pretty good at back stroke
ie he went 53.7 in the 100 *** and 50.8 in the 100 back
though he cleans up the back sprint events in masters
tracey caulkins swam every stroke well,
katie swims every stroke well too, give her a very well rounded IM
michael phelps has a very good breastroke but it's his weakest when you compare it to his other 3
my breastroke is tolerable
in a college quadrathlon in '85 i did a 50 *** in 27.6
I'd be hard pressed to do one under 30 now
i think my best *** split in the 200 IM was a 32.5, 34.6 as a master
I tend to do better when I do some kicking and a lot of technique work
it's rare to find swimmers who are great at both *** and back
ande
No. It's going to take more than a couple examples to convince me that the back-*** super combo is not an anomoly. Even Jeff describes it as an "oddity." I'm sure you have more examples in that encyclopediac brain. :bow: I guess there's Tracey Caulkins off the top of my head. And I'm sure there are some elite IMers that are proficient at both like Katie Hoff. But, apart from the super elite, on this forum and in my own more limited swimming experience and observations, back and breaststroke just typically don't go together. (I know the Raz can do quadrathlons.) That's one reason we have a lot of breaststroke haters and backstroke haters on the forum. (Sorry, Allen, I know you don't like that "hate" word. I use it loosely.)
