Chris Athey wrote:
badgertri wrote:
Kay Serrar wrote:
fishybike wrote:
I was curious, and found results from the 2015 NZ Masters Swimming National LC Championships. No cheating in a masters nationals long-course swim meet with lap counters. http://www.levinmastersswimming.co.nz/Documents/2015_Results/2015_NLC.pdf
She swam a 21:54.12 in the 1500 LCM, and an 11:41.02 in the 800 LCM (roughly 1:27/100M pace for both). Do with that what you may.
So 1:27/100m in a pool, and then 1:23/100m in a challenging, choppy lake swim with 200 other swimmers starting at the same time, on a course over 2.5x further (than 1500m) which some believe was actually even longer than 4000m?
Do you really need any more evidence than this? Unless she found the swimming silver bullet and became an olympic level swimmer in a year, her time is clearly not indicative of her skill level. Also, and i'm genuinely curious, when was the last time a woman had the best swim time at a major event like this? At Kona, woman are typically 3-4 minutes behind the men.
1:23 100m pace wouldn't even finish top 50 in a local meet here in CO.
This result is a year and a half old, I don't view it as evidence that cannot be disputed. I can provide many an example where 4 seconds over 100m can be dropped over the span of 18 months.
What on earth are you talking about? She swam 1:27/100m in a pool and then magically swims 1:23/100m in some of the worst swim conditions the athletes have seen beating her competition by 25 minutes. Sure 4 seconds can be dropped in similar conditions but that isn't what happened. Not to mention, other athletes have stated that the course was long and this wasn't 4 seconds faster over the same distance it was 4 seconds faster over 2.5 times further.....