Looking at one-hour results, and just finishing New England Masters SCY Championships at Harvard, how is it that older swimmers are getting faster and faster, and pretty much everyone is getting faster and faster compared to a few years ago when there seemed to be more mortal swimmers?
What are older (45+ women; at this point 65+ men) swimmers doing that keeps them at such elite levels? Weights? Extensive training? How much of both? How do they have jobs and families and train? The field of fast swimmers is getting deeper and deeper. Anyone have idea as to why?
I want to know the secrets. Are the people who race now self-selecting more and more as elite swimmers? Has everyone swum all their lives? I know to swim hard you have to train hard, but I am baffled by sudden increase in amazing fast times and so many records getting broken.
I truly don't know what I am - sprinter or distance. What do you guys think?
I like to swim all distances b/c it keeps things fun and interesting.
50 fr - 24.88
50 fly 26.46
100 fr - 54.5
200 fr - 1:59
500 fr - 5:12
1650 fr - 17:57 - 1st time swimming it ever in Feb non-tapered - did break the GA record by almost 1 minute
They are all excellent, but I think the 500 and 1650 are your best free times, along with all your fly swims. (You shouldn't be modest; heck, I believe you've swum a faster 200 fly, at 2:11, than both Nadine Day and Susan Von Der Lippe so far this season. That, um, puts you in pretty fast company!)
I truly don't know what I am - sprinter or distance. What do you guys think?
I like to swim all distances b/c it keeps things fun and interesting.
50 fr - 24.88
50 fly 26.46
100 fr - 54.5
200 fr - 1:59
500 fr - 5:12
1650 fr - 17:57 - 1st time swimming it ever in Feb non-tapered - did break the GA record by almost 1 minute
They are all excellent, but I think the 500 and 1650 are your best free times, along with all your fly swims. (You shouldn't be modest; heck, I believe you've swum a faster 200 fly, at 2:11, than both Nadine Day and Susan Von Der Lippe so far this season. That, um, puts you in pretty fast company!)
