Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone is aware of any online calculators you can use to predict your time in an event. For example, "I swam 100m free in 1:28, what would I be able to swim the 800m free in?"
I know this wouldn't be an absolute predictor, just something to give myself an idea of where I would be in the various events, without having to go out and swim them all in competition. :-)
Many thanks,
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Thanks to everyone for their replies! The 1:28 was just for an example, my most recent 100m time is 1:38 and 50m is 41 seconds (haha, I know, I'm slow!) Never swam competitively as a kid but am loving masters swimming and just trying to improve for my own sake!
My best 200m was 3:49 but that was about a year ago.
There are running calculators online where you can input your time for a distance (ie 20 minutes for 5km) and it will tell you what is roughly an "equivalent" time for 10km, half marathon, mile, etc. Seems like the same thing might not exist in swimming?
But the suggestion by Jim Thorton to double the time and add 20/30/40 seconds is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking - sort of a rule of thumb to get an idea of where you'd be at. Alternatively, I was thinking I could work backwards with it - ie I want to break 15 minutes for 800m, what kind of 100m times do I need to be able to get?
Many thanks for any and all suggestions! :-)
Thanks to everyone for their replies! The 1:28 was just for an example, my most recent 100m time is 1:38 and 50m is 41 seconds (haha, I know, I'm slow!) Never swam competitively as a kid but am loving masters swimming and just trying to improve for my own sake!
My best 200m was 3:49 but that was about a year ago.
There are running calculators online where you can input your time for a distance (ie 20 minutes for 5km) and it will tell you what is roughly an "equivalent" time for 10km, half marathon, mile, etc. Seems like the same thing might not exist in swimming?
But the suggestion by Jim Thorton to double the time and add 20/30/40 seconds is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking - sort of a rule of thumb to get an idea of where you'd be at. Alternatively, I was thinking I could work backwards with it - ie I want to break 15 minutes for 800m, what kind of 100m times do I need to be able to get?
Many thanks for any and all suggestions! :-)
