I was just reading this blog:chuckiev.blogspot.com/.../swimming-thoughts-galore.html
This guy claims that he never swam before in his life. At first it took him 36 minutes to swim 1500 meters. After only one year he could swim that in LESS than half the time.
After 17 years of swimming I can't swim 1500 meters in less than 18 minutes. Either I'm doing something wrong or that guy is full of.....
Is it possible to get that fast THAT FAST?
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okay not to pooh-pooh anyone but I do have one small problem:
This was in the blog: "So, JD, ready for some 5K TTs at Scott Carpenter Pool when I return to Boulder?! Give me 12 weeks and we'll get you down to 48-minutes!"
Not one single soul in the world can do 5,000M in 48 minutes. It is possible he was referring to a 5,000Y in which case I would say there are a few people who can do that but none of them are swimming Masters, much less triathlons.
Sub 19 would have easily been a top 10 swim in 1990 in the 1500M (when the swim feat was accomplished) Hmmm, I wish the top 10 went back that far so we could see exactly what this guy did.
okay not to pooh-pooh anyone but I do have one small problem:
This was in the blog: "So, JD, ready for some 5K TTs at Scott Carpenter Pool when I return to Boulder?! Give me 12 weeks and we'll get you down to 48-minutes!"
Not one single soul in the world can do 5,000M in 48 minutes. It is possible he was referring to a 5,000Y in which case I would say there are a few people who can do that but none of them are swimming Masters, much less triathlons.
Sub 19 would have easily been a top 10 swim in 1990 in the 1500M (when the swim feat was accomplished) Hmmm, I wish the top 10 went back that far so we could see exactly what this guy did.
