What's your mile time?

Is your leisurley mile swim 1650 yards or 1760 yards? That is good time for an actual mile. 4 x 440 yards is 1 mile. Hey everyone! I'm doing a little statistical poll that compares one's average running mile time to their average swimming mile time. (I realize that is harder...because when we swim a mile straight--generally for us as competitive swimmers we are swimming it in a race and going for pbs...but what I am looking for is more like if you were to swim consecutively for an hour...how many miles would you get in swimming at a nice constant pace that you could withhold for a longer period of time.) And then I would like to compare the level of fitness for your age that those respective would put you at...mostly I am interested in simply seeing the correlation between the two sports, because almost anyone would agree that cross-training is a positive aspect of your swimming regime. My Data: Age: 22 Gender: Female Background: Swimming: competitive swimmer since 4th grade (swam in college all 4 years) Running: no competitive history really (just a few seasons of high school track) like to run...as a 7th grader ran a 6:23.04 mile in the presidential fitness challenge...haven't hit that mark again haha. Swimming: 19:30minutes at a leisurely pace...I've never swam the mile in a meet. Running: 7:40ish at the moment (hoping to bring that down to at least 6:50 over the summer)

Is your leisurley mile swim 1650 yards or 1760 yards? That is good time for an actual mile. 4 x 440 yards is 1 mile. 1650 scy I guess maybe I've done it once in a meet when I was like 13 and I'm pretty sure I did it in 19:30 then...i'd like to swim it sometime in the near future in a meet...just for hoo haa's

Age- 19 Gender-male Background- Competitive swimmer since junior year of high school. I was 16. Competitive runner since freshmen year of high school. I was 14. Swimming- PB 22:41. I can hold like 23:45 constantly. Running- PB 4:48. I can do about 7 minutes constantly.

What? Then what is your definition of an army? Cavalry used horses, but they were only one branch of the Army....... Don't take it so literally. I guess in Warner Robbins there isn't much better to do than parse Canadian Army digs and swat at gnats, you are below the gnat line I think.

But on that whole subject, why isn't the 1500m free 1600m to make it closer to a mile This is actually a heck of a question. My guess is swimming took the lead from track and that's where they got the 1,500 meter distance. But why did track choose the 1,500 meter as a standard event distance rather than 1,600? A mile is 1609 meters, or 1759.62 yards 1760 yards exactly, actually.

Age: 33 Gender: Male Background: Swimming: competitive swimmer since 7yrs old (swam in college 3 years), swim only freestyle at practice, relays, at the end of medley and open water races. tend to avoid all freestyle races since I am a *** stroker. Took a 10 yr pause before getting back in the pool 2006. Running: only when chased...kidding do no consistant running, but go through periods when I run 20-30 minutes 2-3 times a week. Swimming: in dec I swam 90 minutes and swam just over 6900. that would be 21:30 pace for 4 miles. can do a half mile at practice 10:40 with a long stroke not tired or heavy breathing after. Running: It's been a while since I ran miles, but when I jog 5km I hold a 6min pace. so that would be 9:36/mile. Just remembered the last time I RAN, Dec 2000, Dallas Jinglebell run, just under 19 min/5km (just over 6min/mile) so I probably could run just one mile around 6:00 now... Side note: I am roughly 20 lbs over weight. by the time I get back to my goal weight I am hoping to swim a mile in 18:45 running won't get much faster since I run for the cardio not speed.

And I thought I was a geek.

I know for a fact that a mile is a mile, in the USA. In the USA it is 1760 yards not 1650 yards. When they compete in running the event a quarter mile is a 440. The mile run in the USA is 1760 yards not 1650 yards. The track events run are 400 m and 1600 or 1500 m. Nobody runs the 440 any more. All tracks, except for the old ones, are metric. The mile isn't even run in international competition any more. They run the 1500. And didn't they still think the earth was flat in 1952!:canada:

Leonard, a 4:23 mile is pretty fast! David is right Leonard. 4:23 is pretty quick. I ran a 4:42 in high school and have only recently learned that swimming is a far superior sport to running!:confused: As such, the furthest I've raced is the 1000 just this past weekend. That time extrapolated to 1650 is 24:45. Whew, that needs some work to come up to the old track speed! And as a little thread-jack, how many people back in the day complained when track spikes were invented about how all the old records would be broken? I've been thinking about that while reading all the hullabaloo about the LZR.

Here is a way to figure out how good Canadian Army is www.virtual-bubblewrap.com/bubble-wrap.swf try it in the manic mode to see the USA army. Geek, in consideration of where you grew up (Alabama, right?) you really are quite clever. Krik, I believe he was referring to the Canadian Army, which some might call a cavalry.