Let's see, I have my HS record book in front of me. I have beaten my 50 fly, 100 fly, 200 ***, 50 *** (just barely), 100 free, 50 free, 200 IM and 100 IM.
It's very impressive that you have taken down your HS times across the board, the 200 *** and 200 IM, especially so.
I didn't compete for 26 years (but swam quite a lot on and off over the years and stayed active). I'm 46 now. In HS my focus events were 500 free & 200 IM, and to a lesser degree 100 back. I haven't even tried the 500 or 200 IM in masters. My best guess based on practice times is that I would be 25-30s off in the 500 and 10s off in the IM. I'm several seconds off from my HS 100 back best. I led-off the 4x100 free relay often in HS and I'm now within 't a HS event, but I am quite certain that I have beaten my age-group best in that event. Based strictly on my experiences, it looks like the lomger the event, the more challenging it is to regain your former speed, as is a theme in this thread. Is this due to some aspect of the aging process, or because I swim 1/3 the yardage that I did in HS? I don't know, and tripling my yardage isn't going to happen any time soon. Perhaps more will respond and provide more data.
Let's see, I have my HS record book in front of me. I have beaten my 50 fly, 100 fly, 200 ***, 50 *** (just barely), 100 free, 50 free, 200 IM and 100 IM.
It's very impressive that you have taken down your HS times across the board, the 200 *** and 200 IM, especially so.
I didn't compete for 26 years (but swam quite a lot on and off over the years and stayed active). I'm 46 now. In HS my focus events were 500 free & 200 IM, and to a lesser degree 100 back. I haven't even tried the 500 or 200 IM in masters. My best guess based on practice times is that I would be 25-30s off in the 500 and 10s off in the IM. I'm several seconds off from my HS 100 back best. I led-off the 4x100 free relay often in HS and I'm now within 't a HS event, but I am quite certain that I have beaten my age-group best in that event. Based strictly on my experiences, it looks like the lomger the event, the more challenging it is to regain your former speed, as is a theme in this thread. Is this due to some aspect of the aging process, or because I swim 1/3 the yardage that I did in HS? I don't know, and tripling my yardage isn't going to happen any time soon. Perhaps more will respond and provide more data.
