I need some input from freestyle lap or competitive swimmers

anybody going a 1:35 should be able to swim a 100 in a minute, not 57 seconds Thanks for correcting my math. Is there anyone out there who cruises at 1:35 on 2 minutes? If so, how fast is your 100 all out? I'm genuinely curious. I'm not that fast. Today I swam 16 x 100 on 1:42 with 10 second rest intervals - made it with no problem, no pain. My heart rate at the end was probably 110 or so. Surely I could go faster with an extra eight seconds rest, but let's forget about that for a moment. Now the formula we're working with doesn't really handle that speed (it projects a 59, I think), but I think the concept is that I should be able to swim 100 yards in close to a minute. My best is 1:20 (off a push, not a dive.) I fit a simple regression to the times given in this thread, and it looks like if you take the cruise time, multiply it by 2/3, then add six, you get a reasonable fit. (Begin nerd talk.) I think a linear fit is much more reasonable than a parabola, which assumes that people will get faster as their cruise time gets slower - once they post slower passed 1:35. That's an important consideration when you are trying to model lap swimmers; most of the lap swimmers I see go about 2 minutes per hundred or more. A log-linear curve might work even better and makes sense intuitively as human speed tends to improve asymptotically. (End nerd talk.) Using my dinky formula, I should be swimming 1:14 or so. That's sounds pretty close, especially if you figure I'd be 2-3 seconds faster off a dive. It's a little tricky, because I think different people define cruise differently. You have one person cruising on 80 seconds who has swum 53 and another cruising 67 who has swum 54. All in all, I think it's an interesting exercise. I'm curious what you'll find when you add more data points.

anybody going a 1:35 should be able to swim a 100 in a minute, not 57 seconds Thanks for correcting my math. Is there anyone out there who cruises at 1:35 on 2 minutes? If so, how fast is your 100 all out? I'm genuinely curious. I'm not that fast. Today I swam 16 x 100 on 1:42 with 10 second rest intervals - made it with no problem, no pain. My heart rate at the end was probably 110 or so. Surely I could go faster with an extra eight seconds rest, but let's forget about that for a moment. Now the formula we're working with doesn't really handle that speed (it projects a 59, I think), but I think the concept is that I should be able to swim 100 yards in close to a minute. My best is 1:20 (off a push, not a dive.) I fit a simple regression to the times given in this thread, and it looks like if you take the cruise time, multiply it by 2/3, then add six, you get a reasonable fit. (Begin nerd talk.) I think a linear fit is much more reasonable than a parabola, which assumes that people will get faster as their cruise time gets slower - once they post slower passed 1:35. That's an important consideration when you are trying to model lap swimmers; most of the lap swimmers I see go about 2 minutes per hundred or more. A log-linear curve might work even better and makes sense intuitively as human speed tends to improve asymptotically. (End nerd talk.) Using my dinky formula, I should be swimming 1:14 or so. That's sounds pretty close, especially if you figure I'd be 2-3 seconds faster off a dive. It's a little tricky, because I think different people define cruise differently. You have one person cruising on 80 seconds who has swum 53 and another cruising 67 who has swum 54. All in all, I think it's an interesting exercise. I'm curious what you'll find when you add more data points.