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Gents, Appreciate the complements but was not actually looking for any comment on my 50m time at 60. Soon it will appear as sucky to everyone as the 24.9 of my youth does today. If my current time seems ‘a nice swim’ it is probably due more to the good swimmers of my era not participating in masters rather than any skill on my part. Although I never swam in the US, I saw times reported by the top US sprinters from around 1960/61: Larson, Hunter, Alkire, Follett, Padovan, Lyons, Jackman, etc, etc. – all comfortably faster than me in the 100 at the time. All stopped swimming? In fact, Jeff Farrell and Steve Clark are the only currently active names I recognize from that era. My recent 50m looks pretty sad relative to Farrell’s – he was faster than me in 1961 and obviously still is (although I was closer back then). For forecasting purposes, I was really rather unsubtly fishing for comparative feedback on the 24.9/21.66 in 1962. The 50 was an unofficial distance at that time and I hardly ever saw published 50m/yds times so don’t have anything to compare it to. Just trying to work out if there is hope for further improvement based on what others have done or has old age taken over already and I should get used to times getting slower. It must be great motivation for the swimmers in the ‘celebration!’ discussion thread who are able to beat their college times and produce their ATB’s at close to 50 – amazing! - Wish I could do that. Ian. PS: Tin man talk for Tom (& anyone who might need an artificial hip): Hip replacement parts have a certain amount of adjustment capability. Knowing I wanted to flip turn, my orthopedic surgeon set mine so I can lift my knee closer to my chest than is normally the case. Theoretically this takes away some backward range of movement but I don’t notice; it feels the same as my real hip. The setting does not prevent me from screwing up the turn by going in too close to the wall before flipping but I won’t pop the joint pushing off hard from that position.

Gents, Appreciate the complements but was not actually looking for any comment on my 50m time at 60. Soon it will appear as sucky to everyone as the 24.9 of my youth does today. If my current time seems ‘a nice swim’ it is probably due more to the good swimmers of my era not participating in masters rather than any skill on my part. Although I never swam in the US, I saw times reported by the top US sprinters from around 1960/61: Larson, Hunter, Alkire, Follett, Padovan, Lyons, Jackman, etc, etc. – all comfortably faster than me in the 100 at the time. All stopped swimming? In fact, Jeff Farrell and Steve Clark are the only currently active names I recognize from that era. My recent 50m looks pretty sad relative to Farrell’s – he was faster than me in 1961 and obviously still is (although I was closer back then). For forecasting purposes, I was really rather unsubtly fishing for comparative feedback on the 24.9/21.66 in 1962. The 50 was an unofficial distance at that time and I hardly ever saw published 50m/yds times so don’t have anything to compare it to. Just trying to work out if there is hope for further improvement based on what others have done or has old age taken over already and I should get used to times getting slower. It must be great motivation for the swimmers in the ‘celebration!’ discussion thread who are able to beat their college times and produce their ATB’s at close to 50 – amazing! - Wish I could do that. Ian. PS: Tin man talk for Tom (& anyone who might need an artificial hip): Hip replacement parts have a certain amount of adjustment capability. Knowing I wanted to flip turn, my orthopedic surgeon set mine so I can lift my knee closer to my chest than is normally the case. Theoretically this takes away some backward range of movement but I don’t notice; it feels the same as my real hip. The setting does not prevent me from screwing up the turn by going in too close to the wall before flipping but I won’t pop the joint pushing off hard from that position.