Rappstar wrote:
ericmulk wrote:
ajthomas wrote:
ericmulk wrote:
Wow, great race!!! You had the 7th fastest swim overall with a 51:33, only 2:17 behind Brian Fleishmann's 49:16. This must be one of your best iron swims ever, maybe your fastest iron swim??? As others have asked, have you changed anything about your swim training, or did it all just finally come together??? Current 500 scy time??? In any event, great swim and great race!!!because I know you will find this interesting:
http://www.usms.org/...merID=02ZH2#1650Free
If you look at the results list you will see that Eric S Limkemann - who was also in the race yesterday - went a 17:01 vs Rapp's 18:19.
AJ - Thanks for that link, this is very interesting: Limkemann was 1:18 ahead of Rapp in the 1650 yd, but then only 1:25 ahead in the 4225 yd iron swim, whereas i would've predicted (4225/1650) (1:18) = (2.56) (1.3 min) = 3.33 min or 3:20. I think the IMMT swim was a wetsuit-legal swim so that might be part of it, but of course monty is always pointing out how Jordan is such a "diesel" with his 5300 yd in the 1-hour swim (1:08/100 yd), IOW he was holding 18:41/1650 for a bit over three 1650s in a row. Put another way, Jordan averaged 1:06.6/100 yd for his 18:19.6 for the 1650 vs 1:07.9/100 yd in the hour swim. That's an amazingly low slow-down rate for swimming over three times as long/far:)
I looked around on Google to see if Fleishmann swam in college but didn't find any info. Do you know if Limkemann did???
Yes. He was a good D-3 miler. I want to say he swam at a Pennsylvania school... I know because he swam against my good friend Dano Wells, who swam for St. Johns.
I've swam 50:xx, but I bet the course was shorter (or timing mats placed closer). I swam 50:XX at either IMAZ or IMC in 2009.
Eric swam D-1 at the University of Pittsburgh. Still holds several school records there. 4 time conference champion in the 1650.
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