Swimming’s TopTenTweets of the Week: #4 WHO broke 5:00 in a 500 back??

#10

Every day. Before practice, after practice. Maybe even during practice. We all want donuts.

#9

Meanwhile, Amy was kicking butt in Washington, where she won four events in two days as Cal beat Washington State in a 2-day dual.

#8

We love the 100 IM <3

#7

NC State head coach Braden Holloway with his little wolf pup. S’cute.

#6

< 300 days, folks.

#5

Get knocked down, get right back up. Unless you’re doing a fly set, in which case ignore the intervals and take your time; it’s the only way to avoid the pain.

#4

WHO WAS IT?! Lochte? Clary? Feigen? Maybe not Feigen. @SwimMacElite we want to know!

#3

Basically Elizabeth Beisel rocks, and we are not worthy.

#2

Recent Auburn swimming graduate Allen Browning using his selfie stick in a way that might be wrong but also might be the funniest thing we’ve seen all week.

#1

Ugh, when we’re out of the water, we’re useless.

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Quit Choochin Around
8 years ago

In college I got beat in the 500 at a meet. We both went under 5:00. I swam freestyle, he swam backstroke. The word humbled comes to mind.

MIZ
8 years ago

I would think they could get close to breaking 5:00 doing it kick on their backs

H2opinion
8 years ago

I watched/swam next to Dan Veatch for a 1650 averaging under 00. Beisel could do a 500 easily. Missy absolutely. Feign….never.

Coach Mike 1952
Reply to  H2opinion
8 years ago

I recall stories in the late 1980’s or early 1990’s where a male American swimmer (was it te esteemed Brian Goodell?) swam continuously as long as he was averaging under 1:00 per hundred. He ultimately swam more than an hour & went 6600 before he hit 1:00+. Does anyone recall this or who it was?

swimdoc
Reply to  Coach Mike 1952
8 years ago

I don’t recall, but the “D” guys (and girls) were insane in those days. I’ll still never forget the 1973 World Championships when Steve Holland (at 15) was narrowly leading Rick Demont in the 1500 free and miscounted — they swam an extra 100 meters holding the same splits.

Pretty sure that’s about the time Demont decided to switch to swimming and coaching sprints.

bigNowhere
Reply to  Coach Mike 1952
8 years ago

I’ve heard that story too, but if it was Goodell it would have been in the 70’s, not the 80’s.

Coach Mike 1952
Reply to  bigNowhere
8 years ago

I remembered today – it was Mike Bruner in 1980. He set the world record in the 200 M LC fly at the Montreal Olympics.

MarkB
Reply to  Coach Mike 1952
8 years ago

It was Mike Bruner. He had to AVERAGE under 1:00 per hundred for a 10,000 swim or he had to stop. He went 1 hour 39 minutes +(1:40 being 1:00’s) and had 2 or 3 hundreds above 1:00.

MarkB
Reply to  MarkB
8 years ago

It was before 1980 since I swam with him at ASU then (he was training with Bill Rose for the – ugh – Moscow Olympics) and he didn’t do it there. I read about it in SW when I was still in HS.

Coach Mike 1952
Reply to  MarkB
8 years ago

Thanks for clarifying; legendary swims like this are amazing. Wonder what some of the newbies these days would do?

swimdoc
8 years ago

Who says it was a guy? What about Coventry?

Admin
Reply to  swimdoc
8 years ago

swimdoc – Coventry might could have done it in her prime…I think these days, I’m not sure there’s any women in the world who could do it in October.

bayliss
Reply to  Braden Keith
8 years ago

Do you think a backstroker like Clary could hit sub 5:00 in a 500m backstroke if that was all he trained to do? Tweet has to be talking about a girl, that is pretty mundane guy stuff. probably over 100 guys could hit that on any day in practice in the USA.

swimdoc
Reply to  Braden Keith
8 years ago

I don’t know about that — might have been a “get out” swim or a test week.

weirdo
8 years ago

Don’t see the big deal. That isn’t very fast for an elite backstroke like Ryan or Tyler. They are 1:36 backstrokers……they should be WAY under 5:00.

SwimGeek
Reply to  weirdo
8 years ago

Exactly. Think about the 500 free time that a 1:36 freestyler puts up. Lochte in his prime — in a meet — could probably go well into the 4:20s.

backinaday
Reply to  weirdo
8 years ago

Back in day
Ryan would do 10×500 back on 5’30 all under 5′

swimdoc
Reply to  backinaday
8 years ago

ULRPT

CompetitiveTrashTalker
Reply to  swimdoc
8 years ago

hmm… I heard this used for the first time this weekend from a teammate during an open water relay. I wonder…

Markster
8 years ago

My guess is Clary

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Karl Ortegon

Karl Ortegon studied sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, graduating in May of 2018. He began swimming on a club team in first grade and swam four years for Wesleyan.

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