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AmandaP678AmandaP678 member
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Swimming question for you, maybe you can answer. What is considered a fast mile (free style)

I can swim a mile in about 30 mins which seems really slow to me.  I've just always wondered. 

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  • swimiz500swimiz500 member
    Well, in college, I swam the 1650 (which is the closet event to a mile) in around 18.5 minutes. Amazingly fast would be about 17 minutes for a woman. But, if we are talking open water, that is a whole different beast. I did a triathalon (only the swimming part) and my time was around 21 minutes. I don't think 30 is bad. I have certainly seen slower! 
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    So I went to google to see some average mile times (because it got me thinking, and also I love swimming), and apparently, for a 30 year old in an ocean mile swim, 30 minutes is an average time! (I don't know exactly how old you are, but they did it by decade, so I figured 30 was the closet age to you) So see, you are doing really well! Are you swimming regularly?
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  • AmandaP678AmandaP678 member
    Yup i swim about 4 days week more in the summer. Apparently I suck at swimming lol I need to work on that lol
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    imageAmandaP678:
    Yup i swim about 4 days week more in the summer. Apparently I suck at swimming lol I need to work on that lol

    You do not suck! That is really good!! I will tell you this- I could not swim a mile right now if you offered me a million dollars. So you are doing pretty amazing if you ask me!  

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  • AmandaP678AmandaP678 member
    Swimming's always come natural to me (running not so much) after I had Nick I took 4 months off from swimming and  jumped right back in and swam a mile Im sure it was the adrenaline rush from swimming again lol
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    WOW. Okay, I am definitely impressed now! My goodness!

    I had started to get back into swimming right before I got pregnant, and then after I was pregnant, I couldn't find a proper bathing suit to wear, so I stopped again. I desperately want to start up again though. And I hear you with running- I may be the worst runner ever. 

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  • AmandaP678AmandaP678 member

    I really have to work at running, but I love it. I love the high I get after a good long run.

    As for a bathing suit all the maternity ones sucked  so I just bought the biggest bathing suit I could fine and swam throughout my pregnancy once I could no longer run anymore.

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