I was looking over the high school records and noticed one glaring disparity. The oldest record on the books is the boys public 500 yard free, set in 1983 by Jeff Kostoff at 4:16.39. The next oldest boys record is in 1991. The oldest girls record is the 100 fly set in 1996 by Misty Hyman. Any ideas as to why that one has stood for so long?
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../USA_High_School_Records.pdf
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That's really amazing, but... wasn't there a post that Phelps and Vendt did a set last year on :53 base interval? Maybe the Phelps/Vendt set was shorter?
In order to do any set on a 53 base, you have to swim a 1650 in 14:34, ie if you hold 53.0's in the mile you will go a 14:34. So I think we can safely say that noone, not even Phelps, can do a set longer than, I don't know 800??? on a 53 base interval. I bet Phelps could do 4x200's on 1:45 if he got to leave from the block on the first one. But I doubt he could do even 5 of them.
The most ridiculous set I heard about was Vendt doing 6 400 IM's and he went 3:43 on the last one. There is a floswim video of Klueh doing 15 100's on 1:00 and holding 53's (going by memory here, was that the set?).
That's really amazing, but... wasn't there a post that Phelps and Vendt did a set last year on :53 base interval? Maybe the Phelps/Vendt set was shorter?
In order to do any set on a 53 base, you have to swim a 1650 in 14:34, ie if you hold 53.0's in the mile you will go a 14:34. So I think we can safely say that noone, not even Phelps, can do a set longer than, I don't know 800??? on a 53 base interval. I bet Phelps could do 4x200's on 1:45 if he got to leave from the block on the first one. But I doubt he could do even 5 of them.
The most ridiculous set I heard about was Vendt doing 6 400 IM's and he went 3:43 on the last one. There is a floswim video of Klueh doing 15 100's on 1:00 and holding 53's (going by memory here, was that the set?).
