For my $4 event entry fee at nationals I can swim my 1650 Free which works out to $13.20/hour, while your 50 Free works out to around $120/hour.You get what you pay for
I think us distance folks are just more frugal. For my $4 event entry fee at nationals I can swim my 1650 Free which works out to $13.20/hour, while your 50 Free works out to around $120/hour.
It figures (no pun intended) a banker would come up with a rationale like that... :rolleyes:
When aren’t they? Saint Swithun Day?
I think us distance folks are just more frugal. For my $4 event entry fee at nationals I can swim my 1650 Free which works out to $13.20/hour, while your 50 Free works out to around $120/hour.
I look at it as a VAS (Value Added Swim). If it were tradeable, the average 50 From a good sprinter would be worth the $120...whereas $4 to watch people plod up and down the pool for an extended period is priced that way because of market saturation.
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NB Steve I am playing along, it's all for fun ;)
Absolutely right. We give it 120%!
8,000 daily is a lot of yardage for someone only swimming the 50-100-200 free. Has he always trained like that?
I am not a Rowdy Gaines fanatic or whatever, but he states that he went 20000 yards/day when he was preparing for Olympics. So I guess to him 8000 would be considered a scaled back effort.
Thats interesting, I thought the sprinter's scheme was more like 30% smacking oneself, 30% adjusting goggles, 30% resting, and another 30% trying to do math
Absolutely right. We give it 120%!
8,000 daily is a lot of yardage for someone only swimming the 50-100-200 free. Has he always trained like that?
Man the haters are out in force today.
Sprinter are notoriously high-strung and unable to take a joke. For the life of me, I can't understand why round-the-clock kidding about their inability or unwillingness to work hard could possibly get old.
It won't stop me from contributing to the noise, of course. I figure that by getting a sprinter's blood boiling, I'm actually helping them with their racing. What can I say, I'm a giver.
And let's face it: sprinters just don't spend enough pool time with an elevated HR, so we have to work on it in the forum too.
8,000 daily is a lot of yardage for someone only swimming the 50-100-200 free.
Or for any masters swimmer, regardless of event...I was kind of shocked too.
Man the haters are out in force today.
my contribution was with sarcasm, not hatred, for I would enter a 25 as a target event. Funny thing is my 1.5 year spell of no improvement was just change with PB at practice yesterday. My GTD for Jan is 12 miles, where last year it would be less than half that
