This site is devoted to swimming. Why is it called Twenty-Three Seconds? Because my goal is to swim 50 meters within twenty-three seconds. Follow along as I analyze my crawl stroke to death and maybe you'll learn a few things to improve your own time.
Doing a bit of analysis I had a realization. Here are the basics: My fastest time is a little above 17 seconds on 25 meters. That time is dependent on using the starting block. My natural sprint stroke (meaning the speed I go when I want to go fast, but that doesn’t really wind me) […]
Yes. I am a geek. Oh well. Breaking personal goals is always fun, but if you see that my 50 meter time is double the current world record time it helps me keep things in perspective.
The chart below is for sprints on 25 meters
The chart below is for sprints on 50 meters
Here is a graph of my fastest times in the last four trips to the pool.
I recently purchased the SportCount timer and so I can record the time on each lap that I make. I have been recording the times in an Excel worksheet and then looking at the progress. Unfortunately, I have two different […]