| Discussion: HIM swim times |
Subject: HIM swim times By: Michael S.
Written on: Monday April 09, 2012 Message: just curious about your HIM swim times....I am not
looking to see if you are a fish out a water or
that you are a phenom with swimming (I am sure
some of you are though). I am looking to compare
what you swam it in and try to make myself feel
better about my swim time, or more acuratly
reasure myself I wont suck at it, so please be
honest. I did an Oly Dist. in 40 min and have not
done a measured swim for tim this season as i lose
count of laps or get obored wth swimming.
Thanks again... |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Ronald F.
Written on: Monday April 09, 2012 Message: Don't concern yourself much about the swim. Get
through it in a way that leaves you ready to kick
butt on the bike and run.
Some guys can do
that Oly swim in half your time and still get
their butts kicked on the bike and run and
overall. Not that I know anybody that it happens
to regularly:) |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: ian d.
Written on: Monday April 09, 2012 Message: Pretty much what Ron says. The ONLY concerns you
may need over swim times are
1) if you
wish to podium.
2) if you want to finish in
X:YY time
3) the cutoffs (if they exist) in
your race.
Rule of thumb:
If 1)
or 2) is appropriate for you, then look at the
last couple/few year's results and see what people
that podiumed/did X:YY-ish did for each leg (and
T1/2!!). There will be variations of course - but
I#ll wager not wildly.
If not, a 40
minute 1500m equates to a 43 minute 1900m. that
is WAY within a cutoff.
I reiterate
though - it really depends on what your race goals
are. BUT - you race goals must be realistic wrt
baseline (now!) and time to race and the training
you can put in.
You'll be fine with a 43
minute swim - I did 46 min at Austria in 2010 and
that included a split swim with a 200m run
inbetween lakes in the middle. I was about 2/3rds
the way through my AG with that time - ie LOTS of
people behind me on the
swim.
didds
(who did 1350m in a 9
degree lake this morning :-)
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Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Michael S.
Written on: Monday April 09, 2012 Message: thanks guys!!!
to the other 100 plus
lurkers out there thanks for your input
also...NOT!!! |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Willard H.
Written on: Monday April 09, 2012 Message: I agree with what the others say in general. I
have had 35 and 38 minute Olys, and felt that they
should've been faster. However, there were plenty
of people behind me. If you feel slow, use that as
motivation to work harder, but also don't be too
hard of yourself, and have fun. |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Paul B.
Written on: Monday April 09, 2012 Message:
Agree with Didds...40 min is fine for an
olympic, a HIM is less swim-weighted race than a
HIM. In other words, if you are a fish, do
olympics. If you are a better biker/runner and a
fairly poor swimmer, HIM is for you (and me!) |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: James T.
Written on: Tuesday April 10, 2012 Message: If you're over 25 minutes for 1900m don't even
bother. Give up triathlon and take up knitting or
something.
There, what did you expect us to
say? You're going to race anyway. You know you
can!
Good luck, and so long as you're faster
than Didds, you'll be fine. |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Michael S.
Written on: Tuesday April 10, 2012 Message: thanks james...nice, very nice. I have thought
about starting a new buissness venture...Male
Handbags, I am sure Jim K would want one, anyone
else? I guess the Ladies can have one too... |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: James T.
Written on: Tuesday April 10, 2012 Message: Put me down for one of those bags. I need to get
Didds a birthday present! (Oh boy, I'm starting
something here :))
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Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Ronald F.
Written on: Tuesday April 10, 2012 Message: Oh yea Man purses.
Kinda like a marble sack
that a kid might have before they grow their own. |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Michael S.
Written on: Thursday April 12, 2012 Message: or the kind we all used to have before we got
married....doh!! Actually was gonna make em real
manly like and make em out of duct tape... |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Ronald F.
Written on: Thursday April 12, 2012 Message: Red Green is that you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ4
9v0Vfenw&feature=fvwrel |
Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: Sasha C.
Written on: Thursday April 12, 2012 Message: Damn, Ronald. Great stuff. As with all good satire
it only barely departs from reality. Although I'm
less imaginative I have always operated from
precisely the same principles. I once held my
steering bracket together with duct tape and DROVE
to the parts shop for the piece I needed. I
muffled a clanging universal joint so well with
duct tape that I forgot it was a problem until the
joint went completely and stranded me on the
highway. I didn't want to call a locksmith when I
lost my car keys, so I forced a wood screw down
the ignition, jerked the whole lock out with the
ever handy vice grips and drove for years by
sticking my finger down the remaining hole. I
always used to replace broken window levers with
vice grips, and one day at the garage my mechanic
said,"Did I tell you about that?" I said
I'd figured it out for myself and he told me he'd
been doing it for years. "And the beauty
part," he said, (yes Mr Green's words
exactly) "is you always have an extra vice
grips if you need it to hold something under the
hood." The number of times I've sawed a line
with the side of a drill, or given up on a hack
saw and turned to a chain saw is unknowable. I
have sharpened tools by super-gluing emery paper
to the blade of my circular saw. When I was
painting houses I once needed a longer ladder and
didn't want to buy one. My landlord had a wooden
one behind the garage and I borrowed it without
asking. Up near the peak of a VIctorian a rung
snapped and I went through the next three before
one held. Buster Keaton stuff. My brush sprayed
paint all over the wall as I slid.
I took the
ladder back and confessed to my landlord that I
had "borrowed" it and he told me it had
belonged to his uncle, and was almost a hundred
years old.
How have I lived this long
without Red Green?
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Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: ian d.
Written on: Saturday April 14, 2012 Message: jamesT: Good luck, and so long as you're faster
than Didds, you'll be fine.
ha! My PB
for 1500m is just under 32 minutes so there.
ha!
But Michael - you WILL be fine. :-)
At least your not Welsh.
didds
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Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: James T.
Written on: Saturday April 14, 2012 Message: Didds - I'm now "in country" so you
better be careful. See you on Sunday!
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Subject: RE: HIM swim times By: ian d.
Written on: Sunday April 15, 2012 Message: Well, by the time you'd got out of bed Sunday was
nearly over!!
Great to see you again
buddy.
watch out for them
roundabouts.
didds |
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