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#46051 - Thu May 15 2008 13:34 PM
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[Re: fishbone12202]
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Yesterday I did the CSS for the first time ever. I did 500m in 11:28. Not as fast as a lot of you guys, but it definetly did not use as much energy as freestyle
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#50682 - Mon Jun 15 2009 16:15 PM
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[Re: Arkie]
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I took the PAST again and swam an 8:12. I am pretty happy with that as a new personal best. My goal is to break 8 mins next time.
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#50694 - Tue Jun 16 2009 17:16 PM
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[Re: Keihas]
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7:00 on my PAST. I can go faster.
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#50719 - Thu Jun 18 2009 07:19 AM
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[Re: TheRoad64]
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i just did 1115 after a good workout. best recorded time.
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#53034 - Sun Feb 21 2010 19:16 PM
Re: Quickest 500's Post your's HERE
[Re: JGGIANT]
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Did what I "think" was my first 500. The local pool is a 25 yard, so I did a 500yard in 8:31. However, the fancy calculator I found on google says you need 550yards = 500meters.
Earlier in the start I was doing 50's in 45s, so realistically my 500meter would be 9:15ish?
Edited by Torch (Sun Feb 21 2010 19:18 PM)
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#53293 - Mon Mar 08 2010 05:43 AM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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My best time is 7:40. I swam when I was little, but at 25 I'm pretty proud of that considering I've only been swimming since June and taught myself all over again. I've gotta say though, they talk AB the book Total Immersion on this site a lot. I just bought it Saturday and it has already changed the way I swim and made my stroke more efficient. I'm hoping to get under 7:00 by the time I leave for BMT.
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#53294 - Mon Mar 08 2010 08:24 AM
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#53295 - Mon Mar 08 2010 12:03 PM
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[Re: BALS10005]
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500 8:30... I'm sure that I can train my ***** to be faster but 8:30 freestyle is about as fast as I wanna go.
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#54229 - Wed Jun 02 2010 19:04 PM
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[Re: Ohhhjosh]
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Some of you guys have impressive times, I am assuming these are with flip turns. In normal swimming, and the first PAST test, the flip turns are accepted, but are they allowed on the 500m freestyle the 1st day of indoc?
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#54230 - Thu Jun 03 2010 03:35 AM
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[Re: NYMike]
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Also -you guys jumping from a starting block, or the edge, or are you already in the water?
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#54237 - Thu Jun 03 2010 17:10 PM
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[Re: NYMike]
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Are you guys doing these with diving masks (atlantis example) or just regular goggles?
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#54243 - Fri Jun 04 2010 12:41 PM
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[Re: Torch]
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best 500 free yards is 4:36, converted to short course meteres (25 M pool) is like a 5:25 or so
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#54247 - Fri Jun 04 2010 17:49 PM
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[Re: ForeverTexan]
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best 500 free yards is 4:36, converted to short course meteres (25 M pool) is like a 5:25 or so Nice, ~16 seconds off of times being put up at the NCAA D1 National Championships.
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#54250 - Sat Jun 05 2010 19:05 PM
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[Re: gonwalkabout]
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9:16. Oh wait, I forgot this is the internet. In that case my best time was actually 2:12
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#55159 - Tue Aug 24 2010 20:50 PM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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I just hit a 9:29 and I am damn proud. Three months ago I couldn't swim a 25yard length
Edited by TheDon (Tue Aug 24 2010 20:52 PM)
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#55163 - Wed Aug 25 2010 10:08 AM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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Flip turns are not accepted in the PAST..not in mine anyway, and I was under the impression that it wasn't accepted period. So definately not at indoc. I'm pretty sure diving blocks are out of the question as well. I swim my 500 m in about 8:00. If your swimming in a 25 yd pool, 21.8 lengths is equal to 500 meters. I was really excited about my time in a yard pool until I swam in a meter pool and it added 50 seconds to my time.
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#55171 - Wed Aug 25 2010 17:37 PM
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#55172 - Wed Aug 25 2010 17:40 PM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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Also, I'm not calling anyone a liar, but the American record for 500yds is 408 set in 2008. So if your really swimming 4:36 why not just train a bit harder and go to the olympics.
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#55181 - Thu Aug 26 2010 06:03 AM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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i agree with you garrett616, olympics would be my main focus if i was that fast! although, it is a pain in the butt to get ur time to drop when ur that fast. my all time best was 5:23 and let me tell you, every second counts. it could take someone another 3-4 years to drop those 18 seconds
Edited by The_Rosser (Thu Aug 26 2010 06:03 AM)
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#56424 - Sun Dec 19 2010 17:23 PM
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The record is 4:08. Its the American Record
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#56434 - Tue Dec 21 2010 13:11 PM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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7:37
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#56556 - Thu Jan 13 2011 18:37 PM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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I joined swim team for my school in November of 2010. We're in the water 15 hours a week with 4 hours of dryland a week. I was voluntold to swim the 500m today for the first time. I got a 5:54, I died the last 100 though. I'm a "sprinter" however.
Edited by Stopper (Thu Jan 13 2011 18:44 PM)
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#56988 - Fri Feb 25 2011 17:06 PM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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7:46 2/18/2011; Open turns.
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#56990 - Fri Feb 25 2011 18:24 PM
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[Re: Funkmasterjay]
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8:26 with fins 7:42 freestyle
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#56995 - Sat Feb 26 2011 13:09 PM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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Swam a 7:30 500m in my qualification swim for civilian scuba class at my university a couple weeks ago. This time last year I could not complete 100m swimming without stopping to catch my breath and my 500m was well above 14 minutes. For those worried about swim times, practice form, get the breathing down and put in the yardage and you'll be fine, I never thought I'd be able to swim fast.
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#57112 - Mon Mar 07 2011 22:46 PM
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swam a 9:30 today, after not having swam anything in forever. then swam another 500 in roughly 10.
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#58603 - Sat Jul 23 2011 12:10 PM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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I just started training and swimming laps a couple months ago. Teaching myself from Total Immersion, this site and Stew Smith. My first 500m (swimming meters, not yards) doing CSS was 15 minutes. Today i did it in 10:28.
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#58604 - Sat Jul 23 2011 13:15 PM
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I just started training and swimming laps a couple months ago. Teaching myself from Total Immersion, this site and Stew Smith. My first 500m (swimming meters, not yards) doing CSS was 15 minutes. Today i did it in 10:28. While the CSS is a nice stroke to learn, if you want a faster freestyle time then you need to be practicing the front crawl. EDIT: And so that I'm contributing to the original thread, I'm used to swimming 1500m rather than 500m. But for a 1500 I usually hover around 26 min. My goal is to get it down to a 20 min after I watched a teammate do it.
Edited by Karab (Sat Jul 23 2011 13:20 PM)
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#59222 - Thu Sep 29 2011 10:43 AM
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[Re: maxpowers04]
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I just started training and swimming laps a couple months ago. Teaching myself from Total Immersion, this site and Stew Smith. My first 500m (swimming meters, not yards) doing CSS was 15 minutes. Today i did it in 10:28. the other day CSS (swimming yards so did 11 laps) 500m - 10:02 and just did 500m (swimming yards = 11 laps) freestyle for the first time the other day - 9:23 just started swimming in May. jealous of all you high school swimmers. just glad I don't feel like I'm going to drown anymore.
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#59602 - Tue Nov 22 2011 09:21 AM
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[Re: JGGIANT]
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9 minutes flat freestyle yesterday  Not too bad for teaching myself how to swim 4 months ago haha. Im hoping to cut some time by doing flips on the end lol.
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#59610 - Tue Nov 22 2011 23:30 PM
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flip turns are not allowed
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#59637 - Mon Nov 28 2011 16:08 PM
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8:11(no flip turn) freestyle, diver's mask, shirt & udt's
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