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Commentary by Jeff Commings<\/i><\/p>\n

Watch out, world. If you thought Katie Ledecky couldn\u2019t top the amazing performances she put up in 2014, you\u2019re going to be stunned by what you see this summer when she races at the world championships.<\/p>\n

As I watched her churn through the 800 freestyle tonight at the Arena Pro Swim Series in Mesa, Ariz., a thought came into my head: She\u2019s going to break 8:10 this year. Out under world record pace for 500 meters, Ledecky kept churning out splits that would outlast 98 percent of the male swimming population to post an 8:13.01. Her splits in the middle 500 meters ranged from 30.83 to 31.39. Taking note of those splits at the turning end of the pool was coach Bruce Gemmell, who also recorded her stroke rates and studied her stroke with the same intent as nearly every swimmer in attendance. Gemmell, who shed the business suits in his days as an engineer for a hoodie and shorts tonight in Mesa, joined the crowd in applauding her effort at the end of the race. Then, he walked away and studied the splits, thinking about what sets he could give Ledecky to get her paces a little faster.<\/p>\n

Ledecky said she\u2019s been putting in the best training of her life these past two months since her last record-setting performance, an American record in the 500-yard freestyle this past February<\/a>. Even some of the men who attended the altitude training camp in Colorado Springs recently were amazed by the work Ledecky was putting in against them.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe did some ridiculous stuff up there,\u201d Conor Dwyer said. \u201cShe was on our heels going some times that Ryan and I were going. I\u2019ve never seen a female do that in training before. She\u2019s obviously the top female in the world right now at what she does.\u201d<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not going to change for quite some time. Her fastest 800 free of the season \u2013 8:11.21 \u2013 is 10 seconds faster than anyone has gone this year, and pretty much all of them did their times shaved and tapered. In the 400 free, she\u2019s three seconds ahead of the field, though her 4:00.47 is still two seconds slower than her world record. Ledecky won\u2019t say what her goals are, but you can tell by the smile on her face that she\u2019s right on track.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just try to be consistent and get as close to good times as I can,\u201d Ledecky said.<\/p>\n

To put tonight\u2019s \u201cgood time\u201d into perspective, no one else<\/i> has gone faster than that. It\u2019s the fourth-fastest performance in history. And it was done less than a week after completing some of the toughest swimming she\u2019s done in her career. While most would be happy to get within 10 seconds of their best time at a meet of this type, Ledecky is rewriting history.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how you go so long with (a world record) not changing, and then somebody can break through and do it, and do it so many times,\u201d said Bob Bowman, the guide behind Michael Phelps\u2019 history-making performances. \u201cIt\u2019s great to see that breakthrough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"