Breaking 1:00 in the 100 free SCY for the 1st time
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I'm interested in hearing from people that did it for the 1st time in their life as a Masters swimmer. Who is the oldest out there to accomplish this feat?
I'm 42 and went for a best of 101.xx for the 2nd season in a row. I think I am going to do it, maybe next year. But I know I am not getting younger.:frustrated:
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Related question I've been curious about... has anyone that didn't swim competitively in high school or college ever swam a top ten USMS time?
I got a couple of UK top 10s in 2002/2003 having swum (hopefully that is the right choice of swim/swam/swum) competitively as a kid at a much, much lower level than the US high schools (think summer rec standard, all volunteer coaching etc, but year-round at 2-3 sessions per week). I did no swimming in college or for a few years after - this was 1992-1999.
I think I got 200 fly LC and SC, 800 LC free and maybe 400 LC free (Unfortunately the ASA/Britishswimming web records are either non-existent or un-searchable). So not the most popular events - also there were precious few LC Masters meets, so if you could actually swim in one, you were in for a shot at a top 10.
I never swam those events as a kid at all, never swam LC until I was a master - the longest event we used to swim was the 200 free and that was only once a year.
My PR for the 100 SCM free stands at 1.09.xx done when I was 17 or 18 to give you an idea of how good/bad I was. I'm now at 1.04 SCY and would love to break that 1.00 barrier. However currently I'm concentrating on my 200 fly again, to see if I can get a USMS top 10 :D
That was a long answer to a short question:blah:
Related question I've been curious about... has anyone that didn't swim competitively in high school or college ever swam a top ten USMS time?
I got a couple of UK top 10s in 2002/2003 having swum (hopefully that is the right choice of swim/swam/swum) competitively as a kid at a much, much lower level than the US high schools (think summer rec standard, all volunteer coaching etc, but year-round at 2-3 sessions per week). I did no swimming in college or for a few years after - this was 1992-1999.
I think I got 200 fly LC and SC, 800 LC free and maybe 400 LC free (Unfortunately the ASA/Britishswimming web records are either non-existent or un-searchable). So not the most popular events - also there were precious few LC Masters meets, so if you could actually swim in one, you were in for a shot at a top 10.
I never swam those events as a kid at all, never swam LC until I was a master - the longest event we used to swim was the 200 free and that was only once a year.
My PR for the 100 SCM free stands at 1.09.xx done when I was 17 or 18 to give you an idea of how good/bad I was. I'm now at 1.04 SCY and would love to break that 1.00 barrier. However currently I'm concentrating on my 200 fly again, to see if I can get a USMS top 10 :D
That was a long answer to a short question:blah: