I just went to a meet on Friday and I got 35 seconds in freestyle and 41 seconds in backstroke. Is that a good time? I ended up getting 2nd in free and 3rd in back.
2006-07-24 02:29:43 · 13 answers · asked by Cara 2 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
I'm 12 and have been on a swim team for 3 years.
2006-07-24 02:39:24 · update #1
Interesting. Not many meets are still held in yards, most have gone metric so they can compare with international and olympic standards.
What you are really asking is how do you stack up outside of your own club, because you already know that you rate second in free and third in back. The best way to find out is to ask your coach to let you compete in a larger meet. There is so much more to competition than simply swimming a certain distance in so many seconds. You have to learn how to conduct yourself in bigger meets, how to isolate yourself and get yourself into the proper state of concentration. Once you get near the blocks, you shouldn't be able to hear anyone in the crowd, or listen to the racer next to you. Your entire focus should be on the race ahead of you, on visualizing your start, visualizing how your kick will power you forward, how your arms will add a strong pull, how you will approach the flip turn at the far end, and how it will feel to sprint home.
Only after you have touched the wall at the end of the race do you give any thought to the other racers around you. And hopefully, they will be behind you. It's a wonderful feeling!
Keep training, and listen to your coach.
2006-07-24 07:13:41 · answer #1 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are still many swim meets that use 25 yard pools such as my daughter's swim club and many of the swim clubs in her area. For short course, a typical 12 year old female swimmer can swim at 36 seconds for 50 back in a 25 yard pool and 30 seconds for free in a 25 yard pool. Your times aren't horrible but they would be in the lower range in a larger meet with multiple teams competing. My daughter is 9 and her 50 yd. back is 41 seconds. She comes in top average. Her time for 50 yard free is 37 seconds and again she is just average. She's swam in many larger meets against elite swim clubs.
Has your coach tried getting you get swim longer distances such as 100 yd back and free or 200 yard back and free? Sometimes the slower sprinters such as my daughter are far better distance swimmers. I hope your coach is giving you opportunities to try various events and not just sprinting events. If you want to swim competitively, you need to diversity yourself.
2014-06-06 12:32:19 · answer #2 · answered by chrischem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a 12 year old girl, that's pretty good! Just keep working hard and you'll continue to improve, especially when you start getting bigger and stronger! When I was 12, I was slower than that, and I turned out to be a fairly decent high school swimmer, so yeah, keep working hard and listen to your coaches and you should do great!
Also, I normally do not stray away from the question (because that is poor taste) that often but the following needs to be said...
Disclaimer to people that use their swim times as a source:
Some of the worst coaches I have ever had swam nationally ranked times. Thus, what you did in the water doesn't exactly equate to how well you can teach someone to swim, especially if you heavily relied on natural talent.
2006-07-24 17:10:19 · answer #3 · answered by SirCornman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be able to get down into the 32 second range for the freestyle and 38 second range in the backstroke. You'll drop a lot of time in this age range, since you will be growing pretty fast...
2006-07-24 04:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by nostalgic computing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my usual time is a 30 but Im older and have been swimming since the age of 4. That was about my time at your age. Keep at it though!! You are doing really well!
2006-07-24 05:20:13 · answer #5 · answered by Mystic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the only lengths people swim are 50m, owing to the fact that a pool is 25 metres long (or 50m for an olympic size).
And uuh, a low 23 seconds is complete BS! Perhaps a low 33 seconds over 50metres.
30 seconds for 50 metres is a damn good time, anything below that is amazing.
2006-07-24 02:45:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
a low 23 is not bull @#$1 i belive him i swim a 26 and someone on my team swims a 21sec andolympic time is 19
2006-07-24 02:47:23 · answer #7 · answered by the Fly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm 11 and I went a 30.00. I was so mad I didnt break 30.
BTW a 30 isnt that good.Its only an A time. Now that I'm 12 I have 7 AAAs. INcluding my AWESOME 100 yd back thats a 1:02.6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2014-04-08 10:55:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm your age too, and on swim team! Those are really good times! No worries
2006-07-25 07:42:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow .. ur fast for a 12 year old .. im swimming an average of 28sec or so.. which is really slow
ps im a breastroker..
2006-07-25 04:21:32 · answer #10 · answered by vienna c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋