2023 PRO SWIM SERIES – FORT LAUDERDALE
- March 1-4, 2023
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Long Course Meters (50 meters)
- Prelims/Finals
- Prelims: 9:00 AM (EST)
- Finals: 5:00 PM Wednesday, 6:00 PM (EST) Thursday-Saturday
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Ryan Murphy dominated the 200 backstroke in Ft. Lauderdale, clocking a solid 1:56.4, well over 3 seconds ahead of the field. Murphy has been in a heavy training block since before the Knoxville Pro Swim and is happy with where his racing is at the moment. The Olympic champ notes that he likes that he’s feeling comfortable swimming through fatigue once it set in during the latter half of the race.
@Coleman, Did you spot Caeleb on the pool deck? He was in Fort Lauderdale for a Speedo photoshoot.
Gregg Troy was also on pool deck. Maybe he is back coaching Caeleb in a small pro group for Paris 2024.
Coach Troy is helping out FAST in Ocala. Saw him there in December at a meet. He said he was “just an old guy helping some younger swimmers”. They were hanging on his every word (as they should!).
As someone who misses Caeleb in this sport so much, it’s a different kind of feeling seeing him lose so much muscle, but I guess you’ve thrown me a ray of hope that he’s not done yet
He should try swimming fast in prelims to evaluate his recovery for finals.
He can feel extra comfortable knowing every 200 back field he goes against is terrible.
Lochte/Peirsol/Clary/Phelps would clean up against these 2 back fields
lmao thats what I was thinking- if you roughly equate Peirsol’s WR to Regan Smith’s, Smith’s is 10.2% slower which seems like a decent conversion rate given that Irie’s PB would convert to 2:03.9 and Lochte’s to a 2:04.4
The same conversion would put the medal winning times from Worlds last year to a 2:06.2, 2:06.9, and 2:07.1, with this PSS swim converting to a 2:08.3
Peirsol and Irie were wearing arena x glides.
I’m well aware, but Piersol still would’ve been going 1:53-1:55 range without a suit.
Believe me, I’m not underestimating the advantage the supersuit provided
that is true but even if you roughly equate Missy’s old WR to Lochte’s textile WR, the times are still pretty similar where this PSS swim converts to a 2:07.9
Peirsol never wore an X-glide.
Actually in 2009 he did wear an x-glide leggings suit.
But I agree with the other commenter who said Peirsol would be in the 1:53 range even without the tech suits. For most of his career he wore jammers.
It kind of sucks that the best 200 backstroker in the world was sidelined by politics and left a super weak field behind them.
politics? am i missing something?