Hey guys, thread below on attaining a 24s 50m free got me wondering on time ranges for 50m freestyle.
Amongst masters swimmers, can you give me the rough ranges for what is considered beginner, decent/competitive, and top range? (Age is 30, if it helps). Broad ranges are fine.
Even though I'm not training for the clock, I realized I'm operating in a vacuum in this regard and it'd be very interesting to see.
Thanks!
First what classifies a beginner? I would say experience, not ability. So a beginner would be anyone without former swimming coaching or competition, basically within the last year never swam an entire pool leangth. Intermediate would be this person up to the 3 year mark with successive training. Advanced is 3 year's up. Would this sound reasonable?
Fmracing, what is your 500?
It would be reasonable classifications for this topic if the OP hadn't asked about times specifically :)
My 500? Infinity. I never swim it, even in practice the most I do at a time is 300. I did 2x300 scm, in by 3:45, 4:00 interval about a week ago without too much trouble. If you convert 1:15 per 100m, I can only give you an estimate that I can go under 5:30scy for the 500. I would normally be reasonably confident I could hit that TODAY from a pushoff... but today is my swimming off-day, lol. PB was 5:02 in 1998 lol.
Also it seems as though the word "beginner" has struck a nerve here. I only used that because OP used it.
First what classifies a beginner? I would say experience, not ability. So a beginner would be anyone without former swimming coaching or competition, basically within the last year never swam an entire pool leangth. Intermediate would be this person up to the 3 year mark with successive training. Advanced is 3 year's up. Would this sound reasonable?
Fmracing, what is your 500?
It would be reasonable classifications for this topic if the OP hadn't asked about times specifically :)
My 500? Infinity. I never swim it, even in practice the most I do at a time is 300. I did 2x300 scm, in by 3:45, 4:00 interval about a week ago without too much trouble. If you convert 1:15 per 100m, I can only give you an estimate that I can go under 5:30scy for the 500. I would normally be reasonably confident I could hit that TODAY from a pushoff... but today is my swimming off-day, lol. PB was 5:02 in 1998 lol.
Also it seems as though the word "beginner" has struck a nerve here. I only used that because OP used it.
