Read 'em and weep...
The preliminary Top 10 listings for the 2012 long-course meters season, which ran 10/1/11 - 9/30/12, are now available. Please check for inaccuracies and email Mary Beth Windrath, or PM me, with potential corrections by Nov 24.
http://www.usms.org/comp/tt/www.usms.org/.../PRELIM_LCM12.pdf
Read through the lists, it is very humbling to see everyone's accomplishments, especially the #1 by Jim in perhaps the most competitive swimming event ever. Well done!
My announcement, I am shooting for top a 60 position for 2013!:)
Steve, you have become my new best friend!
I think the number of earthlings who understand how very difficult it is to win the 60-64 year old 100 LCM freestyle is minuscule!
With your comment, I now realize that I am not the sole earthling who understands this!
You whipper snappers out there: I challenge you to put on a fat suit, plug your trachea with artificial phlegm, take all sorts of soporific medications, mount special wobbly blocks while blindfolded to increase your chance of falling before the race even starts, fill your ear canals with material designed to make it difficult to hear the starter's blast, glue hedgehog fur to your back, and avoid any sort of groupie "hook up" for approximately 38 years in a row so as to obliterate any kind of evolutionary impetus to achieve glory, and then swim the 100 LCM free style!
Okay, so you will still beat my time by multiple light seconds, but at least you will see that it isn't as effortless as we decrepit make it look!
I think a number one ranking in the 100 free at any age is a heck of an accomplishment. You know you're not going to "get lucky" in that event. You've got to swim fast.
I think a number one ranking in the 100 free at any age is a heck of an accomplishment. You know you're not going to "get lucky" in that event. You've got to swim fast.
And nail the turn. Well done, Jim!
I hope this one holds up :)
1500 Freestyle LCM Men 40-44 (2012)
# Name Age Club LMSC Time
1 Kirk Nelson 42 PSM Pacific Northwest 17:47.67
2 Ramses Rodriguez 40 SYSM Florida 18:22.63
Right now I'm sitting first in the 800 free, too, but by less than a second.
:applaud: :cheerleader: Congratulations Kirk! I hope it holds up for you, too!:chug:
Nice job!
I'm hoping that my 10th place in the 200 LCM *** holds up...just 'cause. :D
...along with my others as well.
I was #11 in that 200 *** ranking :badday:
And I was also #11 in the 200 IM :badday:
But I snuck in at #10 in the 400 free and the 50 back, and the split of my 1500 made #9 in the 800 free event, so ya win some, ya lose some :chug:
I was also #11 in the 200 *** for a long time, but now someone snuck in and I'm 12th. Somehow being worse seems better in this case...
Gee, I had a heck of a long course season! 6th in the 200 free, 3rd in the 400, 1st in both the 800 and 1500, 6th in the 200 fly and 5th in the 400 IM. :banana:
Gee, I had a heck of a long course season! 6th in the 200 free, 3rd in the 400, 1st in both the 800 and 1500, 6th in the 200 fly and 5th in the 400 IM. :banana:Yes, you did. Your training is paying off. That 1500 of yours was awesome -- right in the mix with distance gods Schaffer and Erwin.
right in the mix with distance gods Schaffer and Erwin.
And Shaffer was in the same heat and came from behind to kick my butt! But I'm happy just to be close to those guys.
