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.

Playing With Numbers: 17.38 seconds on 25 meters

Posted by heathweaver

Crawl - 25 m

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 sheets of times on two different computers. Oops. I’ll upload the workbook when I have some time.

Here is an overview by workout type.

Data

Looking at the Regular - Crawl it strikes me that my average time is not really improving. That is a bit striking as I have made a nice improvement in my 25 meter sprints, but apparently my technique isn’t improving.

Min times

However, if you look at the fastest times I can see improvement in my regular crawl. My Dolphin kicks are coming right along and it really shocks me. I can swim as fast that way as I can doing a regular crawl.

In the end I have to think I am quite a geek. Oh well, it’s fun. 

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