Min/100m pace....what would be considered 'fast'

Average for a decent triathlete would probably be in the 1:30 range.  Fast would be in the 1:0X range.

Which makes me ...... dog azz slow!

for tris? what distance? ITU guys swim a 1.5K on the 17-18 min range. Pros swim 1.2 miles on 23-25 min or 2.4 miles on 49-54 min.

For AGers I would say above avg is a 1:20-1:25/100 yds T pace (swim avg for a 1.5K)

My tri swim coach says most triathletes with good form can get to a 1:45/100 pace for a tri and those with some talent can get to 1:30.

I'm hoping some day 1:45 looks possible for me.

OWS and races it is really hard to gauge pace as often the course is not measured very accurately. So you could swim 1:30/100 or 3:00/100 and be a 2:10/100 person in the poo. 

2:00/100 will put you BOP around here ....... in my HIM last year I was 2:08 doing basically breast stroke in rough conditions.  Out of some 250 or so in my AG I was around 190th ......

This year at the same race my "official" pace was in the 1:48 range and I was still well in the back of the pack.

Sucks to be in a fast and ultra competitive AG .......

lil_turtle - 2007-07-05 3:19 AM Wow this thread makes me feel slow! (Oh yea, I am slow....no wonder!) My goal is always to get to 2:00/100m, because in my world anything below that is fast! (Of course there is nothing anywhere close to a podium finish in my world.... )

Change your profile name to: "lil shark" or "lil dolphin' That might help.... 

Well, I've got a super competitive wife (swam for 13 years and had a few Junior Olympic Times, or at least very, VERY close) so she got me from around 3 to sub 2 pretty quickly.  Now, that was for a 400m swim indoors.  I found out quickly that my OWS is much slower.  At least my first one was.  Guess I will find out with my next one.  My goal is to always get below 2.  Now if that is 1:59, I'm happy!   

Well, I did a 5k Ocean Swim race just this last weekend and the winner "Swam" a 17:20 min/mile average. The top 20 were all doing Sub-20 miles.

I however clocked what I thought was a pretty good 30 Minute Mile but was darn near DFL in the race.

FWIW: The vast majority of the field were very competitive USAS and USMS club swimmers and not Triathletes.

Oh, did I mention that this was a "No Wetsuit" race? USAS rules prohibit "Floatation Devices" of any kind and Wetsuits fall into that category.

I dare say these folks are fast

Just for another perspective:

In the Oly I did in early June, here are the times at various percentiles of the overall field (1500m, lake swim, wetsuit legal, approx 200 participants):

top 10%   23:30

median     30:17

bottom 10%  37:34