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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I did a tri with a 1000m swim leg as a complete non swimmer and went around 26min. I do this tri every year as a relay and I slowly moved it down to 16:30, but it took five hard years of swimming to do it and it did not all come the first year. In fact the biggest time drop was the second year of training.
If this guy cut it in half in the first year to an 18min, then I think he was on track to make an Olympic Trials bid with five more years of training or so. Where did the rest of his swimming career take him?
I don't know what the trial cut in the 1500 was in 1992, I am going to guess around 16:20. If someone went from 36:00 to 17:45 with their goggles falling off (and a run of the mill masters meet where they probably lapped the field) then the implication is that said swimmer could qualify for trials with just a few more months of training.
I did a tri with a 1000m swim leg as a complete non swimmer and went around 26min. I do this tri every year as a relay and I slowly moved it down to 16:30, but it took five hard years of swimming to do it and it did not all come the first year. In fact the biggest time drop was the second year of training.
If this guy cut it in half in the first year to an 18min, then I think he was on track to make an Olympic Trials bid with five more years of training or so. Where did the rest of his swimming career take him?
I don't know what the trial cut in the 1500 was in 1992, I am going to guess around 16:20. If someone went from 36:00 to 17:45 with their goggles falling off (and a run of the mill masters meet where they probably lapped the field) then the implication is that said swimmer could qualify for trials with just a few more months of training.
