would be interested in hearing theories on why masters national records have been broken without the fast suits but world-class swimmers have not. i always thought the fast suits helped us more than them
Both of these statements can be and, IMHO, are simultaneously true ..
Because masters records are easier to break
I can say with absolute authority that Masters records are not easy to break.
... but, I think Jeff's comment is spot on:
The reason more records weren't broken is because a lot of people automatically thought they wouldn't swim faster in 2011 without the rubber suits.
Though I haven't yet beaten my tech suit times, I had a big hang up in my mind about matching or beating my tech suit times. I swam my last event at Nationals, the 100 fly, and went in with relatively little pre-conceived notion of how fast I'd swim. I'd be training more butterfly this season and had been feeling generally good in practice on my fly sets, but I still believed that approaching or exceeding my tech suit times was going to be near impossible. Imagine my surprise when I came into the wall nearly a full second under my previous best 'jammer' time and only 0.11 off my best tech suit time.
Ande is spot on ...
It's possible for masters to swim faster in textile suits than they did in full body rubber suits.
... and I hope to prove it to myself because, if I want to break any of the tough 45-49 National records when I age up next year, I'll need to swim faster faster!
Both of these statements can be and, IMHO, are simultaneously true ..
Because masters records are easier to break
I can say with absolute authority that Masters records are not easy to break.
... but, I think Jeff's comment is spot on:
The reason more records weren't broken is because a lot of people automatically thought they wouldn't swim faster in 2011 without the rubber suits.
Though I haven't yet beaten my tech suit times, I had a big hang up in my mind about matching or beating my tech suit times. I swam my last event at Nationals, the 100 fly, and went in with relatively little pre-conceived notion of how fast I'd swim. I'd be training more butterfly this season and had been feeling generally good in practice on my fly sets, but I still believed that approaching or exceeding my tech suit times was going to be near impossible. Imagine my surprise when I came into the wall nearly a full second under my previous best 'jammer' time and only 0.11 off my best tech suit time.
Ande is spot on ...
It's possible for masters to swim faster in textile suits than they did in full body rubber suits.
... and I hope to prove it to myself because, if I want to break any of the tough 45-49 National records when I age up next year, I'll need to swim faster faster!
