For whatever reason, I am party to discussions about the pace of swimming.
You can see lots of swimmers with Garmin/Apple/Suunto watches so they must know what their pace is.
But what is a normal or good pace? Well, that is the personal best pace for each swimmer of course. But google says that the average pace (I did search for the mean pace but got undesirable results) is 2 minutes for each 100 metres. That is a factoogle. That is, it is a fact provided by Google in reply to my search. This is personal to me as there is an algorithm which decides what results I will see when I search, based on what else I look for. my browser history shows I search for things like how to improve technique; correct body position; what is a catch; dryland exercises for improving technique and so on. If I had a different browsing history perhaps the factoogle would be different.
The result is very interesting. So for comparison, I took a look at the results for the Cole Classic 1 km in 2019, it gives you a survey sample of 1783 swimmers including back of the pack and also elite, and a range of ages and genders. I will post the analysis in the near future. I find that checking my pace especially when I have been to a workshop to improve, provides inexhaustible topics of conversation (my poor husband mispronounces this as "exhausting" topic of conversation).
Lucy and her lovely daughter
Actual swimming
Mermaids above and below the water
Rob above and below the water
Swim buddy extraordinaire Anita
Mum and daughter swimmers - one won
Set the watch before racing back
Bit of wave action
At Shelly. A fever of rays was mentioned but I did not see them
Waves were nice today
TRIPLE BADGE IN THE BAG!!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SADIE ! WHAT A GREAT WAY TO CELEBRATE
I saw Deb at the point. Again. We noted that on blog day I am like a cruise ship or function centre photographer hanging around
Getting ready
Pace setters
One of these swimmers checks their pace
Elisabeth - named for her namesake in the bible unlike me, named for the Queen with a z
Scott, Errol's son and Justus. Hi Errol
These swimmers check pace and told me about the app strava. I will look into this so that people feel good about their pace
Thinking things while swimming - I came across three interesting words this week: afflatus; educe and monocular.
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