wannabefaster wrote:
klehner wrote:
gadzooks wrote:
Solid time but this kid is a Junior in HS right now and the comparison is not even close. Have a look at his Backstroke times. They are NCAA D1 Finals type times. https://www.collegeswimming.com/swimmer/404919/ I didn't suggest that Josh is a national-class backstroker, unlike the kid you reference. I thought it was interesting to see a HS kid do a 500 back far faster than 95% of all triathletes who ever lived could do a 500 free.
That was fun to watch.
I have to imagine that it was pretty demoralizing to the other people in that race..... that he swam backstroke the whole time and blew them out of the water. It is kind of like when a college swimmer shows up at my community pool and effortlessly swims faster while warming up than I swim doing "race-pace" intervals ;-(
A friend of mine (4:32 500fr at Clemson back around 1980) wanted to do a 200back at a local Masters meet, but they didn't have one. So he asked me to pace him in the 200 free while he did it backstroke. We managed to submit seed times so we were in adjacent lanes. I had to work hard to keep ahead of him. Same guy almost caused a bunch of triathletes we swam with to quit the sport, after doing a set of 150s on about 2:05...one arm, due to the separated shoulder he had at the time.
F***ing fish.
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