^OPM^

go swimming about once a week and can swim non stop a mile and half in say a couple of mins under an hour frontcrawl style-is this doing ok? or am i slow as hell?

luke m

my girlfriends verdict is...not bad. she is quite good and can do a mile in 35 mins. to be honest i'm just impressed you can go that far! sorry this isn't a more comprehensive appraisal!

^OPM^

lol tis ok

dpb

At least running for that period there's a change of scenery

^OPM^

I try to day dream- but then i loose count of my lengths lol-or more often then not i pick someone without them knowing to race against.

luke m

and it goes to another dimension with a round bag of air at your feet!

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

Back when I was a teenager and before I discovered the delights of alcohol I used to do 30 lengths in 50 mins which is a about a mile. Now I doubt i could do a length

Also used to be able to do 50 m underwater

Apparition

It's incredible for me. I can't swim !
Yve

dpb

That bloke off little Britians going to swim the channel then...

shaunywrx

Won't that wheelchair slow him down a bit?

XRS

It depends on your age and level of fitness of course. I swim 2,000 metres a couple of times a week and get annoyed with myself if I take longer than 38 minutes - I just can't stop competing .

I guess for a mile and a half it would be around 46 minutes or so as my times for each 500m are fairly consistent.

Try harder!

^OPM^

too right-worked it out and would take me 48 mins to swim 2000 metres-must try harder!

richieh

If youve had no training in technique then not a bad time at all.
based on the same principle ie no training a few coaching sessions would see your times drop maybe as much as 25%
richie

^OPM^

nope im self taught-so i probably swim like a drowning rat

scoob_babe

Metric mile of 1500m is 60 lengths of your average pool (25m) so self taught stroke at that time is good. It would probably be better if someone could advise you on your style as you coult do yourself more harm than good when you get tired.
For some reason, I did one training session of a 4*1500m medley, ie 1500m of each stroke. Don't know why, it seemed a good idea at the time. At least I got the butterfly out of the way first and that filled the session so about 2 hours overall.

richieh

Ah I'd deffo get in a bit of training then-you wont belive the difference it'll make.
Wont cost very much at all either.
richie

^OPM^

pool i use is 33.3 metres long and i class a mile as 48 lengths which equals 1600 metres-when i do a mile and half i do 72 lengths which equals 2400 metres.
Only ever tried butterfly once when at school many years ago-think if i tried it now lifeguards would be jumping in thinking i was drowning

richieh

nowt wrong with butterfly-its all in the timing of the arms against the kick
richie

The Snug Rhino

sounds fine and dont bother with training...if you swim for fitness a crap stroke just makes you work harder - swimmimg with perfect technique may look nice but who cares?

Rhino

shooter007

for me b****Y amaising still i would float well (all that blubber as to come in usefull for something

LG John

Depends really. Uphill or downhill?