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2005-05-06 1:32 PM

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Subject: swim times
hey guys, i have a serious question for all of you competative triathletes. we are having quite a discrepancy over the swim time for a mile. a girl at my local pool where i am training is telling me it should take me about an hour, however someone else i know just did a triathlon in Fla and she said she did the mile swim in about 30min.......what is the average time for a mile swim?????


2005-05-06 1:38 PM
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Subject: RE: swim times
A mile is 1609 meters -

an hour for a mile is around 4:00 min/100m pace.
1/2 hour is around 2:00 min/100m pace

This thread

http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp...

contains a poll w/BT member's usual swim pace.
2005-05-06 9:48 PM
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Subject: RE: swim times
WR is under 15 minutes for 1500M. Hour would be a good time for an Ironman swim.
2005-05-06 11:06 PM
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Subject: RE: swim times
I just swam 1500m in the pool today, which is roughly 110 m short of a mile, and was timed in 27 min.

I am a relatively new swimmer.

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2005-05-06 11:11 PM
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Subject: RE: swim times

That girl at the local pool you were talking too doesn't really know pace for a mile I guess.

A dead man can float a mile in 1 hour.   ha ha ha

2005-05-07 5:03 AM
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Steve- - 2005-05-07 4:11 AM

That girl at the local pool you were talking too doesn't really know pace for a mile I guess.

A dead man can float a mile in 1 hour.   ha ha ha

But there are people that swim slower than that! I was at my old pool last week and the normal "performance" lane wasn't there, juts the "fitness" lane.  I was doing legs only breast stroke and still going faster than some in there - I don't know how they do it, I sink at that speed.

2005-05-07 5:56 PM
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"A dead man can float a mile in 1 hour." Oh, thank God, this is such a relief!! Cause when I swim, the scene has been described as one with a movie prop corpse floating face-down in the pool of a cheap motel at night............and that was from a friend!!
2005-05-07 7:11 PM
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Subject: RE: swim times
I'm a slow one too. I'm planning on taking about an hour and that's WITH training.
I just want to start, swim and get out!
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