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)
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.
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.
