whats your all out 50 meter swim time?

 In pool non block start, yard times (25 yard pool) since no 50 meter pool available:

50 yard : 00:00:25

100 yard : 00:00:55

36 seconds for me -long course meters.

1:22 for 100m

I've always wondered if (relatively) my 100m is too slow or the 50m is too fast

The last masters meets I swam:

50 free:

LCM: 26.4

SCY 23.5

100 free:

LCM 58.3

SCY 50.7

Funny you should ask.  I got curious yesterday and did the same thing.  It was after a tempo run and at the end of my swim workout, but I don't think these things made a lot of difference.

50yd pool, no dive, no flip turn (haven't bothered to learn it properly yet): 40s.  This was faster than I thought it would be, so I did it again to be sure.  Same time second try.

I find not only the olympic times, but really any competitive times, to be just hard to believe.  It is totally unlike running or biking.  I can't run or bike as fast as elites, but I get how they do it, and I can certainly do a lot better than doubling their times.  For swimming, not so.  It's a total mystery to me.

Okay, I don't feel near so bad now. I thought I was missing something when I was doing 50's in roughly the same time frames as they were doing 100's.

50 - 36 Sec
100 - 70 Sec

This morning I did general swimming with 1/2 mile, rest 90 sec and then another 1/2 mile. Averaged 1:52/100 which isn't all that bad either

(no dive, no flip turns) 

Ugh. I hate 50's sprint. I'm a mid-distance IM'er, so that short crawl stuff always irked me. 

Regardless:  my best time ever for a 100m long course free was a 58:00 when I was 14yo. That's like a 52 in scy.  I can barely do a 55 now in scy, 16 years later. My best fly time (since I was a butterflyer for a while) is about the same as my free time. 

 In practice, off the wall, I can do 50m long course free on a 40 second interval, making it in to the wall at 34 to 36 seconds. I can do a few 100m free long course arriving at the 1:10 on an all out sprint from the wall (no dive), but I can make 1:18 on a 1:25 interval till the cows come home. 

 Then again (on an especially unusual day), I (and the other morning Masters swimmers) saw Phelps at our pool last year doing 50m long course fly off the wall in the middle of practice arriving in at like 27 seconds like if it was a stroll down the beach. 

I've got a 25 yard pool, so no 50m times.  I've never timed an all out 50 yard swim either.  But my best 100 yard in that same pool with open turns and no diving (and just using my stopwatch so there is a lag between the starting of the watch and actually going as well as stopping and then stopping the watch) was a 1:17 I just did this year.  I was super psyched for that one!

If I dove in, and used flip turns well with proper timing, that may have been a possible 1:10 - 1:15 or so time.

I told my wife that even if Phelps swam twice as far as me he would still win.  sheesh

Damn dude, I knew you were fast ..... but what is the OQ time???  Did you ever think about trying for them back in the day??

They don't usually do olympic times in yards, but if they did it would probably be 44.0 or 43 high, seeing as how just to qualify for the NCAA B time is 44.48 and the NCAA A time is 43.19.

In high school I used to do the 50 in 22.9 and the 100 in 49.0. Now I can do the 50 in 24 high and the 100 in 56 high. 

50

LCM - 25.4

SCY - 22.7

100

LCM – 56.8

SCY – 47.6

I have no idea. Those people are amazingly fast in water.

To make you feel better, here's my son (4th lane from left) doing 45.x in June and winning the 7-8 AG.  It was a charity event where you pay $20 to swim in the meet and the 50m free AG winners win $300 each!

My swim is about 40 for 50 and I can get 1:30 if I really work for 100. 

Strangely, last year I was running on the treadmill at the gym while some track championship meet was on.  And while they ran the mile, I completed .5 of a mile.  I really seemed to be running hard with a good cadence since I was watching and trying to mimic what they were doing.  And still I ended up being 1/2 as fast as they are. 

Swimming is just the same.  (I have gotten faster at both swimming and running. )