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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Mark, Good one...that movie (the original) still freaks me out! But, here's a better one...
"Kids say the darndest things" (part 2):
Last summer I was getting ready behind the blocks before a 200 meter free. I was a bit nervous because I missed a lot of practice in the weeks before due to work, family, etc... and the 200 free is a long sprint. This was going to hurt. The young (17 year old) swimmer in the lane next to me introduced himself and went on to say, "My coach told me that after the 100 mark, that I should be able to blow you away...my coach says that you old guys can't hang". I was dumbfounded and said nothing. Magically, I was no longer nervous...I was pumped and ready to go. We were even at the 100 and I managed to finish ahead of him by almost 2.5 seconds. I actually negative split the swim and it was my best time of the season by 5 seconds.
After the swim, the puzzled swimmer looked at me in disbelief and said, "I don't understand...where did that come from?"
I told him to go ask his coach.
Mark, Good one...that movie (the original) still freaks me out! But, here's a better one...
"Kids say the darndest things" (part 2):
Last summer I was getting ready behind the blocks before a 200 meter free. I was a bit nervous because I missed a lot of practice in the weeks before due to work, family, etc... and the 200 free is a long sprint. This was going to hurt. The young (17 year old) swimmer in the lane next to me introduced himself and went on to say, "My coach told me that after the 100 mark, that I should be able to blow you away...my coach says that you old guys can't hang". I was dumbfounded and said nothing. Magically, I was no longer nervous...I was pumped and ready to go. We were even at the 100 and I managed to finish ahead of him by almost 2.5 seconds. I actually negative split the swim and it was my best time of the season by 5 seconds.
After the swim, the puzzled swimmer looked at me in disbelief and said, "I don't understand...where did that come from?"
I told him to go ask his coach.
