What's the longest butterfly race you could swim?

Used to be a pretty good flyer when I was a kid. Right now I'm not in good enough shape to go more than a 25M or so.

Anything over 75 yards becomes "survival fly" for me.

Is it illegal to do more than one kick between arm strokes? Not if it's a dolphin kick. I'm pretty sure you could dolphin kick an entire fly race without ever taking a single arm pull and be legal (as long as you surfaced before the 15m mark off each wall).

I could probably only stay legal for about 200. in practice I have a hard time staying legal over 75m :whiteflag: What do you mean by "stay legal"?

I've always been intrigued by those people who do extreme long distance butterfly, like Vicky Keith. (Not that I'm ever planning to try something like that, I'm just amazed that it can be done!) Has anyone ever seen someone doing that, or know of an online video clip? Is the stroke done somewhat differently to be able to last so long? There used to be an online club called the Butternuts, for people who had done at least 500 continuous meters of 'fly. I tried to find it yesterday and just got a whole bunch of horticultural sites about walnut trees.

The poll is flawed since it doesn't list 12m as an option! :banana:

A friend of mine, Julie Bradshaw, did a 22 mile swim on fly. news.bbc.co.uk/.../2175526.stm

Here is a little something about butterfly and all strokes www.youtube.com/watch

A fellow teammate completed a 1500m fly at one of our meets. Rec'd a standing ovation. He was my secret crush from there on out. :smooch:

Can I change my vote to 110 yards? After yesterday's 100 Fly, I'm not sure I could have gone past that. :doh: