Interesting (?) article about really fast swimming:
Former Member
blogs.ugr.es/.../
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.))
Does the site "auto-terminate" when you swim in your 1001st pool?
Like I imagine myself visiting it post 1001 and its just fireworks exploding on the screen and a message "WE DID IT GUYS!":D Well, after doing this for 13 years and racking up 460 pools, my pace of pool additions has slowed dramatically since COVID-19 showed up. I had thought I was on track to surpass the halfway point this year, to put me on track to complete this before I turn 70. 1001 is looking farther away now ...
... as for what happens when I hit that goal, maybe I can convince a daughter or future grandchild to take up the task and take it to 2,002 pools :agree:
Does the site "auto-terminate" when you swim in your 1001st pool?
Like I imagine myself visiting it post 1001 and its just fireworks exploding on the screen and a message "WE DID IT GUYS!":D Well, after doing this for 13 years and racking up 460 pools, my pace of pool additions has slowed dramatically since COVID-19 showed up. I had thought I was on track to surpass the halfway point this year, to put me on track to complete this before I turn 70. 1001 is looking farther away now ...
... as for what happens when I hit that goal, maybe I can convince a daughter or future grandchild to take up the task and take it to 2,002 pools :agree:
