I'm coming up on my first meet since I was in middle school (now 26). Is there a site that has age adjusted percentiles for various events? It's hard to compare myself to high schoolers/collegiate athletes!
Thanks!
We had a huge discussion about this in years gone past, and the great Phil Arcuni created a one stop calculator that allows you to enter your time and age and it cranks out an "equivalent" time at other ages. Phil's uses some American system plus the so-called Finnish Formula, which is even more generous to us old people!
Check it out.
http://n3times.com/swimtimes/
Note: this is pretty much just for fun, and there are all kinds of complicating factors, but it's still more or less what I think you are looking for. Paul is right, however: assuming you have trained continuously, there should be no major drop off till age 40 or so. Hell, Dara has the American record for the 50 m at age 41.
We had a huge discussion about this in years gone past, and the great Phil Arcuni created a one stop calculator that allows you to enter your time and age and it cranks out an "equivalent" time at other ages. Phil's uses some American system plus the so-called Finnish Formula, which is even more generous to us old people!
Check it out.
http://n3times.com/swimtimes/
Note: this is pretty much just for fun, and there are all kinds of complicating factors, but it's still more or less what I think you are looking for. Paul is right, however: assuming you have trained continuously, there should be no major drop off till age 40 or so. Hell, Dara has the American record for the 50 m at age 41.
