Can we really go back in time??

Is it possible to now - 30 years later - to do times that you were doing in HS or maybe even better? In HS I was doing: .26 sec in 50 free .32 sec. 50 back 1:00 in 100 free Currently: 30 in 50 free 35 in 50 back 1:08 in 100 free I'd say (and many more I would bet) that it's all relative. An Ian Thorpe or a Michael Phelps at 60 would never be able to achieve their times as World-Class swimmers. However a mediocre HS swimmer could certainly, at 30 or 40 or 50 learn proper technique and with practice be so much better than his past Check out this site for a comparison table http://n3times.com/swimtimes/ For example: My time this year (2007) in a 50 LCM free was 35.16. According to the formula I would have been doing 28.50 at age 20. However at age 20, my PB was 27.20 (which in turn, means that I should be doing 33.56 at 64, now). Therefore I can attribute that loss of 1.2 seconds to 40+ years of non-swimming (I stopped at 21-ish) and 45 years of heavy smoking (but I quit on 02/02/2002) (Strangely enough, it looks as if Finns are (like I was for a time) couch potatoes and smokers. Why? you ask. According to the Finnish formula, 27.20 at age 20 translates to 35.16 at 64; my exact time to the 1/100th of a second Saturday 24th of February. And I'm not a Finn).

Is it possible to now - 30 years later - to do times that you were doing in HS or maybe even better? In HS I was doing: .26 sec in 50 free .32 sec. 50 back 1:00 in 100 free Currently: 30 in 50 free 35 in 50 back 1:08 in 100 free I'd say (and many more I would bet) that it's all relative. An Ian Thorpe or a Michael Phelps at 60 would never be able to achieve their times as World-Class swimmers. However a mediocre HS swimmer could certainly, at 30 or 40 or 50 learn proper technique and with practice be so much better than his past Check out this site for a comparison table http://n3times.com/swimtimes/ For example: My time this year (2007) in a 50 LCM free was 35.16. According to the formula I would have been doing 28.50 at age 20. However at age 20, my PB was 27.20 (which in turn, means that I should be doing 33.56 at 64, now). Therefore I can attribute that loss of 1.2 seconds to 40+ years of non-swimming (I stopped at 21-ish) and 45 years of heavy smoking (but I quit on 02/02/2002) (Strangely enough, it looks as if Finns are (like I was for a time) couch potatoes and smokers. Why? you ask. According to the Finnish formula, 27.20 at age 20 translates to 35.16 at 64; my exact time to the 1/100th of a second Saturday 24th of February. And I'm not a Finn).