How much distance can you swim in 1 hour?

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 suppose comfort is in the eye of the beholder. By comfort I probably meant not pushing clearly into discomfort. I did not mean the kind of lazy swirling of a manatee in a Miami Seaquarium hottub for manatees, where heads of lettuce occasionally bump up against my semi-awake jowls, triggering a chomp. The latter is probably a better definition of comfort. I started swimming as a young youth, then swam up through one year of college, took a break (where I still swam on my own now and then for stress relief) then took up masters swimming officially in 1984 and have been pretty regular with it ever since. My own peak seems to have been around the age of 50, though thanks to evolving suit technology, my times have not fallen off too drastically since then. However, with the imminent illegalizing of said technology, I brace myself for a sudden and whopping plummet! Note: the not-uncomfortable 4400 above was swum in a regular jammer by a Toblerone-fed body supplemented by a packet of Gu to prevent exertional hypoglycemia. I am going to try the hour swim this year in mid-January with my B70, and hope this will net a few more yards, albeit with a much increased level of discomfort as its price. My peak here was 4996 yards (rounded off to 4995!) at age 51, and has gone down fairly steadily to last year's 4700 at age 56. Check my vlog in the near future--I am hoping to plot out a correlation between actual practice miles per year with that year's swimming performance/speed.

My peak here was 4996 yards (rounded off to 4995!) at age 51, What a pity. 4-5 yards more and you could sing "5001 at 51" :D But peaking at 50 must give hope to a lot of folks here... Jim started swimming a few minutes before conception Don't we all do? :cool: :D