Interesting (?) article about really fast swimming:
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I'm still digesting this article, and some of its conclusions may be strange. What are your thoughts?
I admit that I found this when I was trying to determine the fastest 25m ever swam!! The 50m SC WR vid shows flip-turn push-off at slightly under 10sec, and I'm estimating that reaching for the wall at 25m would be ~9.5sec. Am I way off?
(I know that 25m is not a true event, but it fascinates me nonetheless, because in order to do it well, you must react well, dive well, udk well, and stroke (3 times? :) ) well. ie You need to do A LOT well. And I love my 25m Thursdays, so I want to know what the fastest time is, which allows me to compare my relative (lowly) performance with other distances. (I'm a numbers geek. Sorry.))
I'm fascinated that 17.63sec for 50SCY is the same pace as 19.3 for 50SCM. Also, the 8.48sec recorded at the 25SCY must have been the pushoff from the flipturn. Would it be about 8.3sec if reaching? That's about 9.1sec at the same pace for 25SCM.
Shouldn't the 50SCM WR be significantly faster than 20.24sec?It probably should be. The challenge is that, particularly for American swimmers, they rarely race SCM as a 'peak performance' meet. That might change over time if the ISL continues to grow, but I don't think a guy like Dressel has aimed to peak for an SCM meet in the same way he did for NCAA Championships.
I would love to see NCAAs done in SCM some year, as I think we'd see some world records fall.
Aside: pwb, I enjoy your 1001pools site. Banana slug? Ha! :)Thank you so much. It's my little passion project, so I appreciate your thoughts!
I'm fascinated that 17.63sec for 50SCY is the same pace as 19.3 for 50SCM. Also, the 8.48sec recorded at the 25SCY must have been the pushoff from the flipturn. Would it be about 8.3sec if reaching? That's about 9.1sec at the same pace for 25SCM.
Shouldn't the 50SCM WR be significantly faster than 20.24sec?It probably should be. The challenge is that, particularly for American swimmers, they rarely race SCM as a 'peak performance' meet. That might change over time if the ISL continues to grow, but I don't think a guy like Dressel has aimed to peak for an SCM meet in the same way he did for NCAA Championships.
I would love to see NCAAs done in SCM some year, as I think we'd see some world records fall.
Aside: pwb, I enjoy your 1001pools site. Banana slug? Ha! :)Thank you so much. It's my little passion project, so I appreciate your thoughts!
