How much distance can you swim in 1 hour?

Yes. The rules as of Jan 1 apply, so tech suits are OK. Ah, great! One last chance to dead man float my way to glory!

When is "the suit" officially outlawed? Have the 1-hour postal authorities said anything yet about whether wearing one is kosher? Once again, it seems that if you want to place well, you might want to squeeze in your hour of floatation assisted swimming-like maneuvers sometime before Jan. 1.

Mr. Q, a couple years back, I did 100 on 1:20 for the whole practice, and did indeed finish a 4500 yards. You might try doing an actual nonstop hour swim. It's different than you might imagine, and extrapolating from "it's easy to hold 100s on 1:20" to doing this for an uninterrupted hour might prove different than you think. Maybe you will pick up the speed; maybe you will hold it steady; and maybe you will tire out. But it's a different experience than you think it will be if you've never done it. Hey Jim, From what ddl wrote, I thought he was more interested in an hour of training, not an hour time trial. I am hoping ddl will stop by after his festivities and give us a little more detail on what he is trying to get from this information, so maybe we can provide what he is actually looking for. I think our team might actually be putting together a 1 hour postal for the first time this year. I will let you know if I manage to break 1:20 pace.

Perspective from a slower swimmer. I could swim 3,000 meters in one hour, but I usually am able or will swim between 2,000 and 2,500. I only swim three times weekly, one hour each time with coach, with a bunch of master swimmers.

Everyone, thank you so much for the replies! The reason I was asking this question is that I am a cozy turtle, crawling just a little over 2000 yards in an hour :p. I want to work on the speed and intensity within 1 hour frame since my practice time is limited, so knowing how others do would give me a reference what goal to set at each stage. The replies confirmed that I'm too far behind and I need to work much harder. I am not into racing, but really hope to improve my speed and endurance. On another note: I used to swim in a 25-meter pool, then switched to a 25-yard one over a year ago. Upon switching, I was not used to the new pool and couldn't swim as well in the beginning. Now after more than a year, this past Christmas I swam again in the former 25-meter pool, and guess what? I wasn't used to it any more; it took me 3-4 more strokes to cross the pool than when I last used that pool (also got plenty bruises on my hand hitting the lane line), even though my swimming has no doubt improved significantly since then. So it seems different pools, and getting used to each one, have apparently different effect on our swimming?

....... there's only one way to find out

The reason I was asking this question is that I am a cozy turtle, crawling just a little over 2000 yards in an hour . Actually it depends on what you are doing, I thought you were asking how much distance I can swim for hour non-stop as fast as I can. Sometimes if I'm doing speed work with very long rest, I probably don't do a lot more than 2000 meters, so it depends So it seems different pools, and getting used to each one, have apparently different effect on our swimming? of course, the closer the wall the less strokes you take, you get less tired, but a good swimmer is good in any pool, just look at the best guys that compete in a 50 meter pool, when they compete in a 25 yard pool, they place in very similar positions, not equal (some guys only shine in 25 meter pools) but very similar

4400 comfortably at 57 is indeed very impressive. How many years have you been swimming, Jim? What age do you consider was the peak? I find that shallower pools (4'-4'5") are difficult to swim in. When I tried backstroke, as soon as I started my legs sank. Also I wonder if the buoyancy in chlorine pools and ozone pools are different? I hope some time early next year I can progress to the second slowest posted in this thread :)

Wow, I'm slow. On my best days I cover a mile in 40 minutes, so my best hour would be right at 1.5mi/2400m. FWIW, I haven't done any interval or speed training since I started swimming again this year. I am now training for triathlons and will be working on upping my pace over the next several months. -eric

4400 comfortably at 57 is indeed very impressive. How many years have you been swimming, Jim? What age do you consider was the peak? Jim started swimming a few minutes before conception and hasn't stopped since.