This thread is a spin off from the "swimming against the young guns" thread. Many of us Masters compete in USA Swimming meets each year and have found these meets to be a very enjoyable....for many reasons. Tell us your favorite experience(s). I have been swimming USA meets for the past two years and have a bunch of them. I am 37. I'll start off with this one...
"Kids say the darndest things" (part 1):
I entered my first long course meters meet two summers ago. A group of 15+ year old boys were looking at the heat/lane posting on the wall. They said, "Wow, look at this old guy...he entered his yards time...he doesn't even know this is a meters meet...we're gonna whip his butt...this is gonna be great!" And they all high fived each other.
They were quite wrong.
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Henry:
Thank you for the great laugh on your post. I literally busted a gut on your thought, "They were wrong".
I used to have a saying when the USA kid’s team swam with the Masters team at practice a few years ago. It always got the kids going big time. I was never, ever deluded into thinking I could keep up with these young studs, but, I always had a saying that I said out loud..."Old men rule". They used to tell me, “no way old man”….But my being there always made sure they never were able to loaf in practice.
Kindest regards,
Tom Ellison
Henry:
Thank you for the great laugh on your post. I literally busted a gut on your thought, "They were wrong".
I used to have a saying when the USA kid’s team swam with the Masters team at practice a few years ago. It always got the kids going big time. I was never, ever deluded into thinking I could keep up with these young studs, but, I always had a saying that I said out loud..."Old men rule". They used to tell me, “no way old man”….But my being there always made sure they never were able to loaf in practice.
Kindest regards,
Tom Ellison
