Minutes it takes you to swim 100 yards?

The last time I swam I did 3 sets of 400yds freestyle (and one of mixed strokes) My first set averaged in the 1:5x's and times went up about 7secs/100 per set.

I have to watch myself when I start, because a lot of times my first 100 will be in the 1:3x range and I gas out.  

Good luck with your swimming, from what everyone says, the more you do the better you'll get.

I seem to be the slowpoke of this bunch!

I started swimming 2 years ago and learned the freestyle stroke from a book. My times last year were all above 3 minutes per 100. I've just had some simple coaching and my times are now barely below 3 minutes, but I'm improving. Start with where you are and keep working on technique. Get help from someone you trust and who is faster than you are or someone who is a coach.

I used to hate swimming but now I love it. Best wishes in your swimming,

Joann  

For not trying to be an a##, you've been quite successful.  Really, calling out someone's race performance???   If this is just a friendly competetive thing between the two of you, my apologies.  If you're just a stranger checking race splits... that's a little odd.

To answer the OP (and at the risk of having my race performance judged), you've realized you're going to get answers from all over the map, so it's really irrelevant.  My best set ever I think was 12 x 100 leaving on 1:20, coming in about 1:15.  To me, for racing tris swim performance is all about maintaining a consistent strong pace for 10+ 100s.

Went 1:35/100 at IMAZ, so I guess I was dogging it

I started learning how to swim properly a little over a year ago.  At first, I couldn't swim 100yd period.  As soon as I could, I guess my times were around 2:15 (for one).  Now I can do one 100yd sprint in about 1:35.  I think I'm holding around 1:50/100 for longer distances, and soon I'll be working hard to bring that down.

Sounds like you are at the point where the times really start to come down with improvements in technique.  That's a fun time.  I went through that too, then plateuaed, then hired a coach and have made further gains...more fun times.

Good luck!

Well, well, well....

I just hope that all the others ... the majority of us "regular" swimmers are just not posting our swim times because the speedster's jumped in first and posted their times ... and the rest of us are just too embarrassed now to post our times.

I think once I was finally able to swim 300 yds non-stop freestyle ... I started timing my 100 yd splits and was a little over 3:00 minutes per 100 yds.

By my first sprint tri (and my longest swim had been 750 yds.) I was averaging around 2:30 or 2:45 per 100 yds.

By my 2nd sprint tri I think I was averaging around 1:55 or 2:05 per 100 yds ... can't remember exactly ... or maybe it was 2:15 .... anyhow .... I've actually slowed some now because I'm tryingto save some gas in the tank and swim longer ....

I think if I were to swim 1000 yds I would average around 2:30 to 2:45 per 100 yds.

As you've seen, the range goes from 1:10 to 3:00 per hundred yards for distance swims (meaning in triathlons).

When I was a competitive swimmer, I had crazy fast times for 100yd/m sprint races. Now that I'm a "slow fat triathlete," my ocean/lake distance times in tris range from 1:40-1:50/100yd.

In top form (as a triathlete), I can cruise swim sets at 1:20-5. I am not currently in top form!

As the last swim of '08 I did an all out 100.  In water start, open turns.  1:18.5.  My best ever was a 1:17 earlier in the year.  I typically average in the 1:35 - 1:45 range for normal 100's in training, but suck in open water and my averages are usually well into the upper 1:50's.

I've only been swimming (inconsistently) since Dec. '05 with some pretty long breaks of not much swimming.  But I have done two IM's and a full distance aqua velo, so I have some sort of endurance at least .....

In practice I'm usually around 2:00/100.  Occasionally I can get into the mid 1:45's if I push hard.

In my last race I was BOP in my age group at 2:10/100.

After blowing up on the swim in my first couple of tri's I've since tried to focus on being smooth and efficient. 

Mark